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Aumento gas serra e fallimento della lotta al climate change

Così i nuovi giacimenti di oil&gas fanno fallire la lotta al climate change. Rapporto Global Energy Monitor: l’industria del settore aumenta la produzione nonostante l’impegno globale ad abbandonare i combustibili fossili Allontanarsi dai combustibili fossili in modo ordinato ed equo»: è il sofferto accordo raggiunto dalla Conferenza Onu sul clima di Dubai, la Cop28 di fine del 2023. Non è tuttavia quello che accade, anzi. Secondo i dati diffusi il 28 marzo dal Global Energy Monitor, «lo scorso anno i produttori di petrolio e gas hanno scoperto e dato luce verde allo sfruttamento dell’equivalente di tutte le riserve di greggio accertate in Europa» ed entro la fine del decennio i valori saranno «quadruplicati». Nuovi giacimenti Mentre gli investimenti in eolico e solare accelerano, ma faticano a tenere il passo necessario per la transizione verde; mentre in Europa la spinta del Green Deal cede sotto le resistenze delle lobby; la produzione di combustibili fossili avanza, nonostante «il consenso scientifico sul fatto che lo sviluppo di nuovi giacimenti sia incompatibile con l’obiettivo di frenare l’aumento delle temperature globali a 1,5 gradi» a fine secolo, scrive Scott Zimmerman, autore del report di Global Energy Monitor. Secondo i dati del rapporto, almeno venti giacimenti di petrolio e gas hanno raggiunto lo stadio finale di autorizzazione nel 2023, sancendo l’estrazione di otto miliardi di barili di petrolio equivalente (Boe). Entro la fine del decennio, si dovrebbe raggiungere quota 31,2 miliardi di Boe, in 64 nuovi giacimenti. La crisi energetica innescata dall’invasione russa dell’Ucraina ha consegnato nuovi argomenti al settore oil&gas. Cina e India continuano a spingere addirittura sul carbone, la più sporca delle fonti fossili, per soddisfare la loro fame di energia. Iea: basta pozzi

Una piattaforma petrolifera in Messico Già nel 2021, l’Agenzia internazionale per l’energia (Iea) ha avvisato che non c’è spazio per nuovi giacimenti di petrolio e gas negli scenari di transizione ecologica coerenti con il tetto di 1,5 gradi, oltre il quale gli effetti del cambiamento climatico accelerano e diventano sempre più catastrofici (anche dal punto di vista economico) e sempre meno reversibili. E secondo l’International Institute for Sustainable Development (Iisd), «molteplici modelli climatici ed energetici mostrano che lo sviluppo di nuovi giacimenti di petrolio e gas è incompatibile» con la lotta al riscaldamento globale. Secondo il percorso di azzeramento delle emissioni nette di gas serra, messo a punto dalla Iea (aggiornato a settembre 2023), il consumo di petrolio e gas scende rispettivamente del 23% e del 18% entro il 2030 e di oltre il 75% nel 2050, rispetto ai livelli del 2022. Negli ultimi due anni, sottolinea il Global Energy Monitor, sono invece stati annunciati 50 nuovi progetti oil&gas e per 45 è stata presa la decisione finale sfruttamento. Le aziende coinvolte prevedono che alcuni giacimenti saranno operativi entro un anno o due, ma storicamente, spiega il report, servono in media undici anni per passare dalla scoperta alla produzione. Se questo trend sarà confermato, molti dei progetti annunciati non entreranno in produzione prima del 2030, mettendo una serie ipoteca sull’obiettivo di ridurre la dipendenza del sistema energetico globale dai combustibili fossili, i maggiori responsabili delle emissioni di gas serra. Sud America e Africa sono al centro delle recenti attività di esplorazione, mentre quattro Paesi che fino a poco fa avevano una produzione scarsa o nulla, Cipro, Guyana, Namibia e Zimbabwe, ora rappresentano oltre un terzo dei volumi che i produttori sperano di sfruttare. Gas serra e temperature record Le cinque maggiori compagnie del settore - Shell, BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil e TotalEnergies - hanno accumulato profitti per oltre 261 miliardi di euro in due anni, secondo un rapporto di Global Witness. Intanto, le emissioni di gas serra del settore energetico, anziché scendere, non fanno che aumentare (+1,1% nel 2023 secondo la Iea) e si assottiglia sempre più il carbon budget, vale a dire la quantità di anidride carbonica che si può immettere in atmosfera prima che il global warming infranga il tetto di 1,5 gradi. E se lo scorso anno è passato agli archivi come il più caldo della storia, il 2024 si candida a batterlo: febbraio 2024 è stato il nono mese consecutivo a superare ogni record per temperature medie di periodo, che negli ultimi 12 mesi sono state di oltre 1,5 gradi più alte rispetto all’era pre-industriale, come rileva l’Osservatorio Ue sul clima, Copernicus. Read the full article

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Howard Imbrey was a CIA agent. Having started in the CIA’s WW2 predecessor, the OSS, he was placed undercover in diplomatic roles at American consulates and embassies in Sri Lanka, India, and Ethiopia during the late 40s and 50s. This was a traditional role for intelligence agents: with diplomatic immunity, they would be safe from prosecution, while embassy parties and other events allowed them to pick up gossip from inside the country.

However, it did limit agents and paint a large target on their back. Imbrey operated in a friendly environment in India, where he could rely on British-trained police chiefs as informants in the battle against the Communist Party of India in Maharashtra and Kerala. In other parts of the world, governments would monitor the movements and activities of those who came out of the American embassy, knowing them to be spies.

In 1958, Imbrey was instead embedded in a fake corporation headquartered near the UN in NYC, with a real businessman as his partner. They worked closely with UN diplomats to find actual businesses to promote, to keep the whole thing legit. At the same time, it allowed Imbrey the chance to question the diplomats and businessmen for gossip and to meet with other informants the CIA had already cultivated across the continent. Some of these informants included Cyrille Adoula and Albert Kalonji, head of political parties and breakaway factions devoted to undermining Patrice Lumumba’s elected government in the Congo.

The article attached was important to developing his cover. Initially, it ran in Fortune, owned at the time by Henry Luce’s Time Inc., while the screenshots are from John H. Johnson’s Negro Digest. Luce was historically close to the CIA and the American government in general. He hired CIA agents onto his staff and allowed them to write propaganda as they saw fit. He directed his journalists to publish opinion pieces attacking those who exposed CIA secrets, like Ramparts magazine. At one point in the Congo Crisis, US Ambassador to Belgium William Burden, a friend of Luce’s, phoned him to get him to bury a story on Lumumba. No information has come out either way on just whether the journalist who wrote this article knew Imbrey was CIA or was simply ordered to by higher ups, but it seems likely that the editorial staff of Negro Digest simply saw it as fitting with their focus on black lives and reprinted it unwittingly to the CIA’s benefit. Later on, Imbrey would find another cover as a journalist with a CIA-controlled news outlet in Paris, Brussels, and Rome, which allowed the CIA to fly informants to him.

None of this was known to anyone until 2001, save for a brief acknowledgement of thanks to Imbrey’s wife in a book by Larry Devlin, CIA Station Chief in the Congo. That year, Imbrey suddenly gave two interviews in April and June, and then died a year later. One was to a high school student at a private Episcopal school in Maryland. It’s roughly written, and clearly transcribed by someone who’s writing the names of Congolese officials by ear rather than knowledge, but deserves to be read, not because Imbrey lets his guard down consciously, but rather because of the implicit biases he still has and the distinction between the secrets he wishes to keep and those he feels fine in revealing. Particularly humorous is when the kid tries to ask him about whether the CIA operated independently from the president, and Imbrey denies it, saying “That’s an Arab type of operation.”

The other was to Charles Stuart Kennedy, a career diplomat who retired in the 80s and subsequently made a post-retirement life of interviewing other diplomats for the public record. Since many CIA employees were embedded as diplomats, he ended up running into a bunch. His interview is much more detailed and professional, albeit with the same transcription errors on names, and makes for excellent reading for anybody who enjoys salacious historical gossip. Imbrey talks about reading Popeye the Sailor bootleg Rule 34 as a kid, kidnapping fishermen in the Indian Ocean with submarines to train them to use radios to spy on the Japanese Navy (sounds like UFO abductions), supplying porn to the higher ups in the Indian Navy, etc. But two particular moments stand out, one being what may be the single worst denial of American involvement in the assassination of Patrice Lumumba:

Q: Did you get involved at all with the Lumumba business?

IMBREY: No, the only thing I can tell you is they sent out this shellfish compound to chief of station Larry Devlin and he sent it back with an angry note saying, “Don't you know the Belgians are going to kill him, what do you want us to do?” We kept totally out of that one. Then Lumumba really put himself in terrible trouble when he gave a rise of one rank to everybody in the army and then found he couldn't pay the new prices. Then the army rebelled; they put him in an airplane, took him south and they pulled him out of the airplane on the driveway, brought him up to the chief of the Lunda tribe and in Munongo's office and I guess they shot him there or it may not have been there. In Munongo's office they began asking him a couple of questions. Well, this was according to his answers. Munongo took a bayonet and put it right into Lumumba's chest and Captain Gatt, a Belgian, was right there and he fired a bullet in the back of Lumumba's head to put him out of his misery and that was how it happened, but no Americans were involved.

and whatever this is, which happens to coincide with the CIA’s MHCHAOS operation on American soil:

Q: When you came home what were you doing?

IMBREY: That's where we turn off the tape recorder.

Q: All right, well then, we'll just skip over that. When did you take off again where we can talk?

IMBREY: Let's see. I was sent back to Rome in '72. Turn it off for a while and I'll tell you about it.

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Top 10 Data Science Skills To Learn in 2020

Introduction :

The world is now a hot bed of technology and for good reason. Previously, even may be a decade or two back, we couldn't imagine the number of changes that we see now. It was close to impossible to think that we would have machines that would have the capability to think for themselves. During this time period, all work, starting from the simple ones to the most complicated, happened manually. Imagine analyzing hundreds of data sets to come to one conclusion! As difficult as it was, this was the way things worked. That is until the magic of Data Science was discovered.

With the artificially intelligent machines, however, the dynamics of the corporate world changed drastically. Businesses that began employing smart machines thrived due to the sheer accuracy of the computers. Large volumes of data could now be processed in a matter of minutes, even seconds. Employees no longer had to grind away just to come to a simple conclusion. Instead, they could concentrate on better things that the machines could still not do. This marked an era of change and technological advancements.

Today, companies find themselves using the concept of Data Science and Machine Learning to do things faster and more efficiently.

Top 10 Data Science Skills To Learn :

Data Science, as we have just seen, is a topic that assumes a position of vast importance in today's world. It is changing constantly, giving rise to more things- better things. These are, in turn, is employed to make things work at a faster pace. While the stream itself is producing millions of deltas, there are a few that originate and associate directly with Data Science. While the subject will continue to give birth to many more corollaries in the future, these are some of the basic things that will always remain. All Data Science Certification Courses help you learn these as it is inevitable in case you want to become a Data Scientist. While there are plenty of courses that you can take, you should always aim for the best ones first. And the best course is provided by a company called Great Learning. They are pioneers in this field and have trained thousands of students who are now successfully placed in their fields.

1. Python: Data Science is all about programming. And Python is one of the most well-known languages of the world. Why? The reasons are simple.

Ease of computing: Python is an easy language to master. It hardly has any punctuation and works solely on codes and indentation. This makes Python a universal favorite.

Powerful language: Python is a powerful language as it can be used to generate many different types of software. It is one of the best languages available under object-oriented programming. Its power lies in the generation of complex software that is now used everywhere, all over the world.

2. Machine Learning: Machine learning is a fundamental concept of Data Science. It is safe to say that Data Science is driven by the concepts of Machine Learning. For a computer to learn the science behind processing data, it has to go through the process of machine learning. Possessing the required knowledge for Machine Learning is an important step in becoming a Data Scientist. It is only natural for a person to acquire this skill in such a scenario. Predictive analysis is yet again an important part of machine learning that you will be required to master.

3. Neural Networks: Neural networks in Artificial Intelligence refers to the working of neurons in a human brain. The reason why this is one of the most important parts of learning about AI, is the simulation of the neuron patterns to form a cognitive learning system. Neurons in our brains are designed to retrieve memory from the slightest of hints produced. This is an important capability that all Artificial Intelligence-driven machines are required to have. The neurons are also responsible for all other activities that make humans the most intelligent on the planet. In that light, it is important to say that a neural network can be primarily of three types:

Feed forward Neural Network: This is the type of neural network that is used most commonly today. In Artificial Intelligence, it is used to perform some basic operations like basic pattern recognition and image recognition. Feed forward neural network is so-called as it facilitates the flow of information in one direction only. This genre of a neural network can further be divided into single-layered networks and multi-layered networks.

Recurrent Neural Network: Recurrent neural networks, abbreviated as RNN, make use of loops to perform some recurrent operations. Quite naturally, these are way more complicated than feed-forward neural networks and can do much more complex tasks related to image processing. In fact, recurrent neural networks are used in natural language processing and speech recognition operations.

Convolutional neural networks: This genre of neural networks is quite complicated and was developed with visual recognition in mind. Today, it is used for operations like object recognition and analysis of videos.

4. Deep Learning: One of the most important components of the whole Artificial Intelligence package is Deep Learning. Now, we spoke about the usage of neural networks in the previous point and that is clear to us given its content. However, there is more to it than meets the eye. When we say 'deep learning', we mean the cognitive ability of a machine to imitate the way humans learn and remember things. One very important aspect of Artificial Intelligence is making some important decisions and that is facilitated by a complex structure of neurons. The study and subsequent imitation of this process are essentially what we mean by deep learning.

5. Natural Language Processing: Natural Language Processing is a sub field of Artificial Intelligence and is essentially concerned with the processing of natural languages. It deals with the interaction between humans and computers using natural languages. This requires the computer or the software to understand the respective languages and to know what to say after what and how exactly to respond. Given that Artificial Intelligence is a lot about interacting with humans, Natural Language Processing is a crucial part of designing an interface that is to understand the natural language of humans

6. SQL: SQL is the abbreviation of Structured Query Language and is used to manipulate information in a database management system. Although the topic does not sound like one that has something to do with artificial intelligence, it actually is more than helpful to the eye. Databases are required to store the information that will be fed to the machine, which in turn will serve as the data that the machine will use to learn various things. Hence, it is important to know the usage of databases, and hence, of SQL.

7. NOSQL(Not only SQL): NOSQL is mostly a simpler, or a more refined version of SQL. It deals with the retrieval of information from a database that does not have relational schemas. As for SQL, relational schemas formed a crucial part of the designing system. However, in NOSQL, it is completely the opposite. It is used mainly for the databases where relational tables are not necessary. Therefore, a small amount of data works just fine on NOSQL. Needless to say, using NOSQL in such situations is way better than using SQL as the latter is more complicated than the former.

8. Hadoop: Hadoop is a collection of open-source software that was introduced by Apache. This software was introduced to take care of a large volume of data which can otherwise be difficult to handle. Wondering why Hadoop is essential for Artificial Intelligence? Let us explain how! With Hadoop, feeding data to your artificial intelligence-driven device becomes a thousand times easier than it would have normally been. Moreover, the device will also be able to save further information using this software. However, as a designer, you must know how to operate Hadoop so that you can program your machine accordingly.

9. Elastic Search: Developed using the language Java, Elastic search is a search engine that is based essentially on the Luce library. This, too, plays an important role when it comes to Artificial Intelligence.

10. Visualization of Data: Data visualization is a topic that is being widely explored by computer scientists. Artificial Intelligence is not only being driven by this technology, but it is also being used to develop the same. Through data visualization, it is possible to translate a large volume of data into images that are easier to decipher and use. This allows easier communication between a machine and the user as visualization increases readability.

Some more skills that you must know :

Database Management Systems

Health-care analytics

Conclusion :

We have seen the importance of the discussed skills. It is to be kept in mind that these are the ones that are being used a lot these days. However, the ones mentioned below the main list, also assume an important place in the world of Data Science and Machine Learning.

Throughout the entire article, there was one thing that was predominantly visible, and that was Data Science. Although we have encouraged the skills that we have mentioned here, it is to be kept in mind that there are many more such skills that one can acquire.

One other thing that you must have noticed is the presence of programming languages. Data Science is a subject that breathes through programming. In that light, some of the most important languages here are Python and R. These are the two languages that are ruling over the realm and there is no way you want to skip even one if you wish to be a Data Scientist.

If you want to learn how Data Science works, you can take a Data Science course. These courses shed light on a lot of important topics that Data Science encompasses. Moreover, the Data Science Course in India is gaining a lot of ground here. You definitely want to be one of the people to know about the subject while it is still ripe. One organization that teaches Data Science better than the others is Great Learning. They have a fantastic collection of resources that are all given to you for better and comprehensive learning. This is a chance that you do not want to miss out on it.

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Huawei detalla como vivirán sus dispositivos sin los servicios de Google.

No hay mucho que pensar cuando se habla de los principales miedos que existen entre los usuarios de dispositivos Huawei, sin duda el tema de no contar con los servicios de Google fue un golpe bajo y que necesita una pronta solución para que el gigante chino pueda seguir su rumbo a convertirse en el mayor fabricante de dispositivos móviles en el mundo.

Aplazamientos más, aplazamientos menos, la verdad es que el bloqueo económico de EE.UU. a Huawei se mantiene y los chinos necesitan comenzar a buscar reemplazantes para todo lo que antes hacían sus dispositivos con Google, esta vez con un rumbo nuevo ya alejado de la gran G.

Pues bien, llegó una nueva jornada de la Huawei Developer Day, reunión que tuvo como localidad India y desde dicha reunión se abordó el tema del ecosistema de aplicaciones, ya lejos de los Google Mobiles Services (GMS).

El encargado de abordar el tema fue Charles Peng, Director de Huawei en India, quien nos dice que todo se va a resolver con la creción de aplicaciones sustitutas propias.

“Tenemos nuestro propio HMS [Huawei Mobile Services – ed] y estamos tratando de construir un ecosistema móvil. La mayoría de las aplicaciones clave como navegación, pagos, juegos y mensajería estarán listas para fines de diciembre.

Nos estamos centrando en cómo trabajar con los desarrolladores para ofrecer una buena experiencia al cliente. Es un desafío que estamos tratando de abordar.”

La aventura de Huawei para conseguir las tan esperadas “aplicaciones sustitutas” de los servicios tradicionales de Google no es de menor escala, se habla de una inversión que supera los USD $1.000 millones para que desarrolladores indios creen una suite completa de apps que reemplacen las GMS en sus dispositivos móviles, lo que tendría como resultado versiones propias de aplicaciones como Gmail, Maps, Youtube, pero todo bajo el alero de Huawei.

El objetivo de Huawei es ambicioso según menciona Pena, ya que según ellos esperan que los consumidores no vean muchas diferencias entre sus aplicaciones y las que tenían cuando trabajaban con Google, algo que de verdad es muy optimista viendo todo lo que Google ha logrado con sus aplicaciones y servicios con muchos años de evolución en todo esto, pero daremos el beneficio de la duda a los chinos, sobre todo si dicen que vienen hace mucho tiempo trabajando en independizar todo de Google y “brillar con luces propias”.

¿Existen fechas para ver las aplicaciones y servicios en que trabaja Huawei?, por ahora NO, y será cosa de tiempo para que veamos los primeros pasos de Huawei lejos de los servicios de Google, espero que la espera valga la pena.

Fuente: India Times. Autor: Elias Villagrán Donaire.

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Growing a building like a mushroom CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, together with global energy company Eni, has developed an architectural structure made of mushrooms, installed in the center of Milan for Design Week 2019. Grown from soil over the past six weeks – and to be returned to the soil at the end of the month in a fully circular manner – the project is composed of a series of arches, made from a record 1-kilometer-long mycelium. April 9th, 2019 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hi-res images and more information are available upon request. Please write to pr@carloratti.com CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, in partnership with global energy company Eni, has developed an architectural structure made of mushrooms, to be unveiled today at Milan Design Week 2019. The installation, called “The Circular Garden,” was grown from soil over the past six weeks – and will be returned to the soil at the end of the month. It is composed of a series of arches, adding up to a record 1-kilometer-long mycelium, and experiments with sustainable structures that can grow organically and then return to nature in a fully circular way. The project will be showcased during Milan’s Fuorisalone at Brera’s Orto Botanico, the city’s botanical garden. The installation, part of the INTERNI Human Spaces exhibition, will be open to the public from April 9th to 19th 2019. The Circular Garden pushes the boundaries of using mycelium – the fibrous root of mushrooms – in design. In recent years, mycelium has been employed for sustainable packaging and small brick-like objects. The Circular Garden engages with mycelium at the architectural scale – with a series of 60 4-meter-high arches made of mycelium scattered around the Orto Botanico, for a total of 1 kilometer of mushroom. In order to create self-supporting mycelium structures on such a scale, the project takes inspiration from the great Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí. It was he, while designing the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, who resurrected the “inverted catenary” method pioneered in the 18th-century by polymath Giovanni Poleni. According to this method, the best way to create pure compression structures is to find their form using suspended catenaries and then invert them. The same applies to the Circular Garden, where the catenaries compose a series of four architectural “open rooms” scattered throughout the garden. The mycelium was grown in the two months preceding the opening of the Circular Garden with the help of leading experts in the field of mycology – particularly the Dutch Krown.Bio lab. Spores were injected into organic material to start the growth process. In a similarly organic manner, all the mycelium will be shredded at the end of Milan Design Week and go back to the soil, in a circular way. The cycle is similar to what has happened since ancient times in small town or city gardens, through the production of food and the composting of organic waste. “Nature is a much smarter architect than us,” says Carlo Ratti, founding partner of CRA and director of the MIT Senseable City Lab: “As we continue our collective quest for a more responsive ‘living’ architecture, we will increasingly blur the boundaries between the worlds of the natural and the artificial. What if tomorrow we might be able to program matter to ‘grow a house’ like a plant? Milan’s amazing botanical garden, in the center of the city, seemed the ideal place for such an experiment”. “There’s a whimsical short story written by Italian writer Italo Calvino in the 1960s that tells of the wonder of the urbanite Marcovaldo when he suddenly discovers some mushrooms growing in the middle of the city. During our first visits at the Botanical Garden in Milan, we felt a similar amazement,” comments Saverio Panata, project manager at CRA: “We discovered how many varieties of mushrooms were naturally growing in the garden. After that encounter, we thought that mushrooms, with their adaptability and speed of growth, could become our perfect building material.” Many pavilions designed for temporary exhibitions and fairs – such as for Milan Design Week – end up generating large amounts of waste. The Circular Garden project will be reused in a circular fashion – mushrooms, ropes and wood chips will go back to the soil and small metal elements will be recycled. “Life is more important than architecture,” Oscar Niemeyer famously said, a dictum that is at the center of this year’s theme at the INTERNI Human Spaces exhibition. “It is certainly about human life – but it is also increasingly about the life of our planet, intended in a holistic way,” adds Ratti. CREDITS The Circular Garden A project by CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati for Eni Part of “INTERNI Human Spaces” exhibition Artistic Consultancy: Italo Rota CRA Team: Carlo Ratti, Giovanni de Niederhausern, Saverio Panata (project manager), Luca Giacolini, Alessandro Tassinari, Nicola Scaramuzza CRA Make Team: Alessandro Peretti Griva, Carlo Turati, Corrado Castiglioni, Luca Cianfriglia Renderings by CRA graphic team: Gary di Silvio, Gianluca Zimbardi Mycologist consultants: Krown.bio

Photo credits: Marco Beck Peccoz Video credits: Edithink

Where: Milan’s Orto Botanico, Milan, Italy When: April 8th- April 19th, 2019 (h.10:00-22:00)

ABOUT CRA-CARLO RATTI ASSOCIATI CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati is an international design and innovation office, based in Turin, Italy, with branches in New York and London. Drawing on Carlo Ratti’s research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the office is currently involved in many projects across the globe. Embracing every scale of intervention – from furniture to urban planning – the work of the practice focuses on innovation in the built environment. Among recent projects there are the master plan for Milan’s Science, Knowledge and Innovation Park (MIND-Milano Innovation District); a 280-meter tall green skyscraper in Singapore co-designed with BIG; the redesign of the Agnelli Foundation HQ in Turin; the requalification of the Patrick Henry military village for IBA Heidelberg in Germany; the Pankhasari retreat in India’s Darjeeling; and the concept for a human-powered "Navigating Gym" in Paris. CRA is the only design firm whose works have been featured twice in TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions of the Year list respectively with the Digital Water Pavilion in 2007 and the Copenhagen Wheel in 2014. In the last years, the office has also been involved in the launch of start-ups, including Makr Shakr, a company producing the world’s first robotic bar system, and Superpedestrian, the producer of the Copenhagen Wheel. www.carloratti.com

ABOUT ENI Eni is an integrated energy company with around 33,000 employees in 71 countries globally. It operates in the oil and natural gas exploration, development and extraction industries in 46 countries; trades in the oil, natural gas, LNG and electricity sectors in 30 countries; and sells fuels and lubricants in 32 countries. It also produces crude oil and semi-finished products to be used in the production of fuels, biofuels, lubricants and chemicals that are then distributed through either the wholesale or retail markets, through various refineries and chemical plants. The company is contributing to the energy transition to a low-carbon future, by promoting the development of energy produced from renewable sources. It is doing so by using new and increasingly efficient clean technologies and by applying the principles of the circular economy to all aspects of its activity. Having completed the transformation of its own business model, which is now more straightforward and faster, with a more efficient value chain, Eni has consolidated its own organic growth across all of its businesses by capitalizing on three main strengths, namely integration, efficiency and use of technology. Technology in particular plays a strategic role in all sectors, helping to achieve global recognition for Eni’s operational excellence, promoting the decarbonization of all of the company’s operations and developing industrial efficiency through the circular economy model. Investing in technology and knowledge has enabled Eni to achieve one of the fastest times to market in its sector, as well as one of the lowest break-even points. From upstream operations to renewables, downstream operations to natural gas, the circular economy to asset management, Eni has managed to differentiate, strengthen and integrate each of its businesses thanks to an operating model that systematizes all of its operations.  Integrity when it comes to business management, support for the development of the countries in which we operate, operational excellence in managing the group’s various activities, innovation in the search for competitive solutions and renewable energies, the inclusion of individuals and the promotion of professionalism and expertise, and the taking into account of both financial and non-financial aspects when it comes to business processes and decisions are our drivers to create sustainable value. Eni is working to build a future in which everyone has access to efficient and sustainable energy resources. The Company bases its work on passion and innovation, on its unique strengths and skills, and on the value it places on people whose diversity is considered a resource for all.

ABOUT ENI GAS E LUCE Eni gas e luce, a wholly owned subsidiary of Eni SpA, is a provider of gas, lighting and energy solutions for the retail and business markets. The Company operates in four European countries and has 1,600 employees. With 8 million customers in Italy, it is the leading supplier of natural gas to households, apartment blocks and small businesses, and the second largest supplier of electricity in the free market. Eni gas e luce also has a network of Energy Stores in Italy, with 150 points of sale offering personalized consulting. Since the end of 2016, Eni gas e luce has been present on the energy solution market in partnership with leading companies in their relevant markets, offering a range of energy efficient products and home services beyond gas and energy supply.

ABOUT INTERNI HUMAN SPACES INTERNI, The Magazine of Interiors and Contemporary Design, has been fortunate enough to share the fantastic, adventurous history of the Italian furniture and interior design industries for more than 60 years, closely following the growth that design has been able to express thanks to the work of brilliant cultural figures, architects and designers and brave, intuitive entrepreneurs. INTERNI has, in effect, grown with design, which has spread and infected all of daily life. The magazine has assumed, over time, an increasingly decisive commitment to communicate the culture of design at an international level, promoting new creative alliances between designers, companies, representatives of culture and project operators in the broadest sense, and has developed, under the direction of Gilda Bojardi, a network of parallel publications that have transformed the monthly magazine from niche to mass media. INTERNI continues to be an attentive and up-to-date observatory of the design world and a forerunner of trends in the fields of design and architecture. From the first half of the nineties, the magazine became part of the Mondadori Editore Group, the most important Italian publishing group. The activity of INTERNI also includes the conception and coordination of events and exhibitions, organized in order to facilitate encounters between those who design and those who produce. The themes of experimentation and ephemeral production led, in an effort to broaden the culture of design to the general public, to the events organized in the late 1990s on the occasion of Milano’s FuoriSalone. This famous urban phenomenon that animates the city of Milan during Milan Design Week was born thanks to the initiatives of INTERNI in 1990; the magazine today coordinates the communication of about five hundred events. After the launch of the INTERNI publications in China (2015), the magazine plans to extend the international editions elsewhere.

“HUMAN SPACES” is the title of the much-anticipated exhibition-event conceived INTERNI with the support of the City of Milan, which will take place during the FuoriSalone, from 8 to 19 April, in the courtyards of the University of Milan, at the Orto Botanico di Brera with ENI and at the Audi City Lab at the Arco della Pace. The Mondadori Group magazine, edited by Gilda Bojardi, asked leading protagonist of Italian design, as well as international designers and architects to address the issue of “Human Spaces”, in collaboration with companies, multinationals, start-ups and institutions. The result is an extraordinary collection of installations and design islands, micro-architecture and macro-objects, all site-specific, that interpret the places, landscapes contexts and, by extension, media and objects that place at the center of their vision the wellbeing of people. Consequently, the human being and human needs are back at the center of creative thought for a new quality of life, in harmony with the environment.

CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati® | The Circular Garden press release | April 2019 | pr@carloratti.com

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Finished #reading The Retreat of Western Liberalism, by Edward Luce. 

An interesting and readable account of the growth of illiberal populism in the west. Luce argues that, at the end of the Cold War, democracy and capitalism were presented as inseparable. Almost thirty years later, they have become unshackled, with America having lost much of its lustre through a combination of relative economic decline, misguided foreign policy (”It is hard to overstate the damage the Iraq War did to America’s global soft power – and to the credibility of the West’s democratic mission”) and dysfunctional politics, culminating in the election of Trump. 

Government in the west has become increasingly technocratic, with a shrinking space for national democracy to affect how countries are run. This, together with people’s frustration at stagnating incomes, has led to a populist backlash, often in an illiberal and antidemocratic direction: 

Since the turn of the millennium, and particularly over the last decade, no fewer than twenty-five democracies have failed around the world, three of them in Europe (Russia, Turkey and Hungary). In all but Tunisia, the Arab Spring was swallowed by the summer heat.

Meanwhile, the titans of global capitalism find authoritarian regimes such as China’s increasingly more congenial than western democracies. 

China has profited beyond its wildest hopes from the club it joined, and now offers to cheerlead. […] Xi’s best allies are thus the global chief executives who came to hear him in Davos. All dread the wrath of an alienated Western middle class.

Even the west’s cities, often portrayed as islands of liberalism and tolerance, are at least as much part of the problem as the solution:  

One of the ironies of the West’s booming cities is how much lip service its more fortunate denizens pay to a progressive worldview. We really couldn’t ask for a nicer elite. Yet the effects of how they spend their money are hardly progressive. For all the emphasis we place on our multicultural cities, they epitomise our oligarchic reality. […] The West’s global cities are like tropical islands surrounded by oceans of resentment. […] Rather than being shaped by those who live there full-time, the characters of our biggest cities are increasingly driven by the global super-rich as a place to park their money.

Luce is convincing in arguing that this is a long-term trend, driven by macroeconomic developments over decades: especially growing economic inequality, and the “privatising of risk” as governments and employers push the costs of social insurance and retirement onto individuals. This has led to a “culture of mistrust” that feeds populist politics. 

The gaping hole in Luce’s book is a clear definition of what “western liberalism” is, or a clear account of why it is worth promoting. He seems to take it for granted that his readers know what “western liberalism” is and that they regard it as a good thing. In practice, though, what comes across in his book are the profound failings and hypocrisies of the “western liberal” order: its promotion of a “deep globalisation” that even Luce sees as now incompatible with national democracy; its insistence that emerging economies accept a “toolkit for economic success” far removed from the protectionism behind which the current leading economies originally developed. 

He can also be rather blasé and superficial about the west’s illiberal, imperial past: 

The debate about the West’s moral debt to its former colonies is often too one-sided. Those who point to Britain’s extraction of wealth from India, for example, tend to overlook the impact of social reforms that for the first time gave benighted lower-caste Indians the chance to read and write, or that protected upper-caste widows from sati, where they were expected to throw themselves onto their husband’s funeral pyre. There is no moral abacus that can settle the pros and cons of each instance of colonialism. In the case of slavery, no debate is necessary. The African slave trade was a crime against humanity in which Britain and America played starring roles. But Europe’s economic success was chiefly driven by technological superiority rather than by a fit of immoral looting.

Hmm. [citation needed], I think.

Don’t get me wrong: I’d sooner have “western liberalism”, with all its imperfections, than any of the various forms of illiberal alternatives. It’s striking, though, that even a book such as this can leave the reader wondering how worthy “western liberalism” is of being saved, at least in the form we’ve known it in recent decades. 

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Xiaomi traerá a MIUI 12 un modo de astrofotografía similar al de los Google Pixel

Xiaomi traerá a MIUI 12 un modo de astrofotografía similar al de los Google Pixel

Xiaomi parece decidido a dar un importante paso adelante con la app de cámara de su capa propietaria. El fabricante chino sigue potenciando MIUI versión a versión, y los últimos rumores apuntan a reformas en el apartado fotográfico. Y dado que MIUI 12 es la última versión de su capa, y que MIUI 13 está todavía muy lejos en el tiempo, en términos móviles, parece que la versión 12 es su actual campo de pruebas.

Ayer mismo conocíamos que ya probaba un disparador por inteligencia artificial, uno que seleccionaría la mejor captura entre varias para ofrecernos siempre la foto más adecuada. Esta función, que ya la hemos conocido en los Pixel de Google, no será la única importada de los teléfonos de los de Mountain View. Desde XDA Developers han cazado código que apunta al modo de astrofotografía. Fotos de los cielos nocturnos en MIUI.

Fotografía de cielos nocturnos para MIUI 12

De nuevo, los cambios que han sido avistados en el código fuente de la cámara de MIUI corresponden a la app instalada en la versión beta de MIUI 12 para China. Es lógico que Xiaomi desarrolle las nuevas funcionalidades en su propia lengua y en su propio territorio, y que posteriormente corran a instalarse en los modelos comercializados más allá de sus fronteras.

En Xataka Android

Google explica cómo funciona el modo Astrofotografía de los Pixel

Así que si ayer conocíamos lo del 'AI Shutter' traído directamente de los Pixel, hoy le toca el turno a la fotografía de cielos. Concretamente, de cielos nocturnos. Los Pixel disfrutan del modo de astrofotografía desde hace ya varios meses y el siguiente en implementarlo, a tenor de esta filtración o descubrimiento, será Xiaomi en su MIUI 12.

Aún no hay muestras de su funcionamiento, pero el modo Astrofotografía ya se prueba en MIUI 12

Con este modo se podrán fotografiar cielos estrellados gracias a la gestión en segundo plano de una inteligencia artificial entrenada para ello. Pero no sólo eso, sino que podremos emplear este modo, especializado en fotografía nocturna con muy baja luminosidad, para pintura con luz, o para fotografíar luces en movimiento como las del tráfico o de multitudes. También, por qué no, para obtener el efecto seda al fotografiar masas de agua.

Inicialmente, este modo de astrofotografía en pruebas ya se encuentra en la beta para el Poco F2 Pro del fabricante chino, un modelo lanzado en la India y que se corresponde con el Redmi K30 Pro de su propio país. Ya sólo restará saber cuándo van a dar el paso de colocarlo en una ROM disponible para todos los usuarios y, por supuesto, en la versión internacional de sus móviles más populares.

Vía | XDA Developers

- La noticia Xiaomi traerá a MIUI 12 un modo de astrofotografía similar al de los Google Pixel fue publicada originalmente en Xataka Android por Samuel Fernández .

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AIFF Announces 2020 Selection Committee

CELEBRATING A 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY

 AIFF is pleased to welcome three new judges that will join the Selection Committee for 2020. They are Belal Taheri of Iran, Sandip Pratihar of India, and Shahrzad Dadgar of Iran/Jacksonville, FL. With submissions growing beyond 2,000 films a year, there was a need to increase the Selection Committee that now totals sixteen members. We welcome the expertise of these judges and appreciate the local as well as international representation we have on the Committee. It is indeed a daunting task to view the numerous films and select those that will comprise the Film Festival. These judges are tasked with keeping the mission of the Festival at the fore of their decision-making process as well as evaluating for content and technical achievements. We thank those judges that have been with us since the inception of the Festival’s organization in 2010, to those that have joined along the way, and we look forward to working with new members of the team. Now meet the new judges!

Shahrzad Dadgar is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer from Hamedan, Iran. Dadgar earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in urban engineering from Azad University in Hamedan, Iran before pursuing a film career. As an artist, Shahrzad's work focuses on promoting understanding of women's empowerment, and women who have suffered from sexual issues. Shahrzad has received the coveted Golden Gazzale from the Persian Int’l Film Festival in Australia, the Best Inspirational Women in Film award from the Festigious Film Festival in Los Angeles, and Best Script award from the Cervaignano Film Festival in Italy. Dadgar is now attending Jacksonville University’s College Of Fine Arts in Florida on a talent scholarship grant and continues to make independent films.

Sandip Pratihar is an independent filmmaker from the small village of Tajpur in India. He enjoys working on surreal subjects, dramas, and documentaries. Sandip is also a screenplay writer, having written eight feature film scripts. He believes that film is a medium where people can enjoy time together, where they can discover both their joys and sorrows. His continuing endeavor is to make the kind of films where the lost and unwelcome voices of our world will reach the people.

Belal Taheri is an Iranian independent filmmaker and content distributor professional at Cineport media, an online submission platform that assists filmmakers and festivals. Belal has been a jury member for more than 56 international film festivals, Edinburgh, Oxaca, Jaipur, Euro, Ethnografilm, Mediterranean, and the Cannes Film Festivals to name a few. He is also the founder and director of the Cineport International Film Festival. 

Judges that will continue with us this year are:

Akasa Stephe Angba is an African filmmaker, producer, director, and editor from Nigeria, with over 15 years of experience as an independent film practitioner, film teacher and consultant. He studied film at the National Film Institute Jos, where he earned a professional diploma before moving ahead to earn a Bachelor’s Degree, all in film production. He was technical director for the Africa Movie Academy (the parent body of AMA Awards) and has coordinated and lectured on film across the continent of Africa through the Film in a Box-training Program organized by the Africa Film Academy. These trainings have been held in South Africa, Malawi, and Nigeria amongst other countries. He has also worked with the Nigerian government through the Independent Electoral Commission to ensure a violent-free 2015 national election using audiovisual content. He has complete productions for renowned NGO’s like Action Aid and Save The Children International, producing documentaries/audiovisual campaigns against child malnutrition in northern Nigeria. Over the years, his work as an independent filmmaker includes documentaries, feature films, short films, television films and series, add campaigns and music videos. He has worked on projects like ‘GRA Women’, a popular television series in Nigeria produced by PMO Global, ‘DAISY’, a feature film starring Nigerian and Ghanaian leading actors, and music videos like ‘FOR YOU’ by the famous gospel musician Dorcas Bentu. Akasa is a man passionate about culture and art, most importantly the business of it all.

Lawrence Benedict is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, has studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York, and is a veteran of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada. He has performed on stage in over 42 full Equity productions, and in TV and film in both United States and Canada. In Los Angeles, he founded “Angus Lake Productions” where he learned most behind-the-camera disciplines while producing promotional video for studios such as Universal and directors such as Steven Spielberg. He has edited Disney trailers and a full-length feature he edited, "Forgiving the Franklins," became a Sundance Selection. Lawrence has taught at Banff School of Fine Arts, UCLA Extension and Screen Actors Guild. He is author of “The Video Demo Tape” – published by Focal Press, and “How to Shoot Better Camcorder Videos; Help from the Hollywood Pros.” Lawrence currently performs improv with “The Playground.”

Kate Bernhardt is an accomplished, innovative and creative marketing and communications professional with deep experience in content creation and management, marketing innovation, brand strategy, broadcast and Internet media, marketing campaigns, client and stakeholder management, event planning, team management and development, and translating industry best practices to build brands and drive business success.  A consensus-building leader, Kate has an energetic work style, strategic as well as tactical and a unique ability to successfully blend industry knowledge with management and content expertise. Kate is the Communications and Media Consultant for KB Media & Marketing and lives in Arlington, MA.

Alice Bouvrie brings over 20 years of experience in the film industry to her role as documentary Producer and Director. She holds a Master’s Degree in Film Production from Boston University, a Master’s Degree in Intercultural Relations from Lesley University, and is a graduate of the DGA Producers Training Program in New York. She is an active member of the Director’s Guild of America, and an active member and former board member of Women in Film & Video/New England.  In 2005, she was a Filmmaker-In-Residence at WGBH, Boston, and in 2011 won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship. Bouvrie worked as an Assistant Director on feature films, TV series and specials, commercials and industrials for seven years before producing documentaries as an independent in 1993, forming Mineral King Productions. Alice resides in Arlington, MA.

Barbara Costa is a freelance project manager and multimedia producer of predominantly science subjects for online courses, websites, public television documentaries, educational videos and museum programs, and exhibits. She has produced interactive computer-based exhibits for the Louisville (KY) Science Center and Science City in Kansas City, MO. For nine years, Costa worked in documentary production at the NOVA series (PBS). Barbara is currently overseeing development and marketing for Spy Pond Productions and lives in Arlington, MA.

Paul Dervis has been teaching drama in Canada at Algonquin College as well as the Theatre Conservatory Ottawa School of Speech & Drama for the past 15 years. Previously, he ran theatre companies in Boston, New York, and Montreal. He has directed over 150 stage productions, receiving two dozen awards for his work, directed six films, and written over two dozen plays.

Alice Markowitz of Arlington, MA is currently consulting in communications, visual storytelling, and social marketing for mission-driven companies and non-profit organizations. A three-time Emmy Award winner, Alice’s career began in broadcast journalism--producing, directing and writing PBS documentaries for national broadcast on multiple series including NOVA, Blackside's This Far by Faith, and Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers. Alice earned a bachelor’s degree from Vassar and a Master’s in Education from Harvard before becoming a Henry Luce Foundation Scholar in Asia.

Nuno Sá Pessoa is from Lisbon, Portugal. He began his studies in cinema and television at Universidade Moderna, Lisboa and went on to graduate from the European Film College in Denmark. Nuno directed his first independent work with two feature-length documentaries following, in which he did both cinematography and editing. He has worked in California where he edited a total of three feature-length documentaries directed by Kenneth Payton. Having moved back to his native Portugal, Pessoa co-founded Skookum Films.

Phil Pritchard was born in Epsom, Surrey, England and graduated from Mountview Theatre School in London. He appeared in the title role 'A Kitten for Hitler' (2007) directed by the legendary British Film director Ken Russell and in 'The Scouting Book for Boys' (2009) directed by Tom Harper and ‘Woman in Black: Angel of Death’ starring Thomas Turgoose & Holiday Grainger. On stage, he appeared in the West End production of 'A Little Night Music' directed by Trevor Nunn at The Garrick Theatre and as Henry Higgins in 'My Fair Lady' at the Cambridge Arts Theatre. After UK national tours of 'Lark Rise to Candleford' and 'To Kill A Mocking Bird' (York Theatre Royal), he was cast in the International Tour of Beatles Biopic 'Backbeat' (2013) written by Ian Softley (Trap for Cinderella) and Stephen Jeffries (The Libertine, Diana) and directed by 5-time Tony Nominee David Leveaux. Produced by Karl Sydow and Paul Elliot the West End show toured to Toronto & Los Angeles. In the USA he appeared in the film 'Tattooed Love' (2015) with Edy Ganem (Devious Maids) Laura Flannery (American Horror Story), Marlon Moreno (El Capo). Pritchard serves on several film festival selection committees.

Bernice Schneider is an award-winning documentary film editor. She received her Master of Science in Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab under the direction of Richard Leacock. Bernice has edited numerous films for PBS’s American Experience, Frontline, Nova Science Unit, American Masters, and Independent Lens. She edited the feature-length independent documentary film, Rebel, about the politics of national memory as viewed through the lens of the secret life of a Latina confederate soldier. Another feature, Angkor’s Children, focuses on a grassroots movement to reinvigorate the arts in post-genocide Cambodia. Angkor’s Children has screened nationally and internationally, including within Cambodia at the Bophana Film Center. She edited Alice Bouvrie’s film A Chance to Dress, winner of the Arlington International Film Festival’s Best Short 2015. She also completed A Perfect Crime: the Leopold and Loeb Story for American Experience in 2016. Most recently, she completed the editing of Laurel Chiten’s documentary, Just One Drop which premiered in London in 2017. Her films have screened at prestigious museums, both nationally and internationally. Bernice also worked in the field with national correspondent Charlene Hunter-Gault for PBS’s NewsHour in Kenya, South Africa, Haiti, and Somalia, where she edited stories on political and cultural change in the developing world. She has received honors and awards for her work including a Wallis Annenberg scholarship for women filmmakers, a CINE Golden Eagle, the Biographical Video Award, and an N.E.A. Regional Fellowship. Bernice also teaches editing at Emerson College and lives in Cambridge, MA.

Eric Stange, executive producer and founder of Spy Pond Productions in Arlington, is a writer, director, and producer of documentary television programs on history, science, and technology. His work has appeared on PBS, The Discovery Channel, National Geographic and the BBC. He specializes in both short and long format projects that combine rigorous research with innovative visualization techniques and imaginative storytelling. Eric has been a recipient of the Charles Warren Fellowship in American History from Harvard University. He is a member of the board of Common-Place, the leading academic website for studies in early American history, writes a column for American Heritage magazine on the history and new media, and is a visiting fellow with the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Before becoming a filmmaker Stange was a print journalist and wrote primarily about art and culture for newspapers and journals including the Boston Herald, Boston Globe, New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Chronicle of Higher Education and other national publications.

Marga Varea of Arlington, MA is the founder and lead impact producer at Twin Seas Media, an outreach and distribution agency for independent documentary films and film festivals. With 20 years of experience in the film and television industries, Marga has a deep understanding of the filmmaking process from concept to distribution and a deep love for non-fiction. Marga develops creative outreach, engagement and communications strategies that raise the visibility of independent documentary films.  She designs and implements multi-platform, thorough impact and distribution campaigns for non-fiction media that questions the status quo and illuminates some of the most important issues of our times.  

Yahia Zakaria is a Film/TV Producer and Project Manager with a Bachelor’s in Cinema Directing from the Art Academy in Egypt. Yahia has more than ten years’ experience as a filmmaker and has supervised production and post-production for feature films, documentaries, TV commercials, TV shows, short films, and video clips. His last job was Head of Production at Era Media (Digital Agency) in Kuwait. He established and supervised Era Media’s Cairo office where he is currently freelancing and looking for new challenges.

Judges for the High School Student submissions are:

Saoirse Loftus-Reid is a Sophomore at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. She’s originally a student at Lexington High School and was the winner of the AIFF Microsoft Special Award in 2018 for her short film The Art Collector. Her work has been showcased in a variety of film festivals including the All-American High School Film Festival in New York City, Kerry Film Festival in Ireland, Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival in Florida, and the San Diego International Kids Film Festival in California. She has won two regional awards for short-form fiction and long-form non-fiction and received three honorable mentions for her work with the non-profit organization Rubbish to Runway at the Student Production Awards in the National Academy for Television Arts and Sciences New England/Boston Chapter in her senior year of high school. As a freshman in college, she was nominated to the National Student Production Awards. She currently studies Business with Marketing, is an active member of the Edinburgh University Television Society as the Post Production Officer and was Director and 2nd Camera Operator at the Edinburgh University Filmmaking Society.

Shuyi Wang is a documentary filmmaker now living in Arlington. She is originally from Chengdu, China. Shuyi received her M.A. in Broadcast Journalism from Emerson College and is currently a producer/director of HuaPlus TV Boston, the largest overseas Chinese online video platform, headquartered in New York. Her latest work, “Awaken the Dragon Together”, a short-format documentary about Massachusetts first dragon boat team for cancer survivors, featured and screened as a finalist of HUA International Short Film festival at Los Angeles, London and Tokyo in 2017 and the Arlington Int’l Film Festival in 2018. Her previous work has appeared in NBC, New England Center for Investigative Reporting, edX, HKS Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University, MIT Digital Learning and

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The AIFF Organizers are extremely proud to be working with such a professional team that is dedicated to our mission of offering a unique opportunity for cross-cultural education, promoting understanding of the many cultures represented in our town and beyond and recognizing that such diversity enriches our communities. We believe that this annual international film festival highlights core values and aspirations we share with our culturally diverse neighbors and with all members of the global human family.

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Save the Date: TV Premieres and Film Releases

The schedule of television premieres and film releases continues.  Below is a list of upcoming television shows and films that participated in New York State’s production and post-production tax credit programs with upcoming release/premiere dates. Otherhood – Aug. 2 – Netflix This year, on Mother's Day, feeling marginalized and forgotten, longtime friends Carol, Gillian, and Helen decide to drive to New York to reconnect with their adult sons, and in the process, they realize their sons are not the only ones whose lives need to change. Starring: Felicity Huffman, Angela Bassett, Patricia Arquette (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) Luce – Aug. 2 – Topic Studios / Neon A married couple is forced to reckon with their idealized image of their son, adopted from war-torn Eritrea, after an alarming discovery by a devoted high school teacher threatens his status as an all-star student. Starring: Octavia Spencer, Naomi Watts, Kelvin Harrison, Jr. (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) Preacher - Season 4 – Aug. 4 – Sony / AMC Fulfilling a promise to his deceased father, one-time outlaw Jesse Custer returns home to West Texas to take over his dad's church. Jesse's mission, however, becomes twisted when his body is overcome by a cryptic force that unleashes within him a highly unconventional power. Starring: Dominic Cooper, Joseph Gilgun, Ruth Negga (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Post Production)

Patriot Act with Hasan Minhjaj – Season 1 – Cycle 4 – Aug. 4 – Netflix Every week Hasan Minhaj brings an incisive and nuanced perspective to global news, politics and culture in his unique comedy series. Starring: Hasan Minhaj (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) After The Wedding – Aug. 9 – Sony Pictures Classics Seeking funds for her orphanage in India, Isabelle travels to New York to meet Theresa, a wealthy benefactor. An invitation to attend a wedding ignites a series of events in which the past collides with the present as mysteries unravel. Starring: Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, Billy Crudup (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) The Kitchen – Aug. 9 – WarnerBros In this gritty, female-driven mob drama, the mobster husbands of three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but a sharp ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia’s matters into their own hands—proving unexpectedly adept at everything from running the rackets to taking out the competition…literally. Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Elisabeth Moss (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)  Ode to Joy – Aug. 9 – Mosaic/Sony Pictures Worldwide Charlie suffers from cataplexy, a symptom of narcolepsy that causes sudden bouts of paralysis whenever he experiences strong emotions -- in particular, joy. He develops a variety of techniques to deny himself too much pleasure and happiness, but they're put to the ultimate test when he falls in love. Starring: Martin Freeman, Morena Baccarin, Jake Lucy (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) Succession – Season 2 – Aug. 11 – HBO Succession tracks the lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control. Starring: Brian Cox, Matthew Macfadyden, Sarah Snook (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) Adam – Aug. 14 – Wolfe Releasing Awkward teen Adam spends his last high school summer with his big sister, who throws herself into NYC's lesbian and trans activist scene. In this coming-of-age comedy, Adam and those around him encounter love, friendship and hard truths. Starring: Nicholas Alexander, Margaret Qualley, Leo Sheng (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) Already Gone – Aug. 16 – Gravitas Ventures A lonely teenager in Coney Island uses his graffiti to escape his abusive stepfather. The teenager is in love with his stepfather’s girlfriend, and they flee together to Colorado after the stepfather tries to pimp her out. Starring: Seann William Scott, Raquel Castro, Shiloh Fernandez (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) Burn – Aug. 23 – Yale Productions Burn follows lonely, unstable gas station attendant Melinda who is tired of being overshadowed by her more confident, outgoing co-worker. When the gas station is held up at gunpoint by a desperate man in need of quick cash, Melinda finds an opportunity to make a connection with the robber, regardless of who gets hurt. Starring: Josh Hutcherson, Suki Waterhouse, Tilda Cobham-Hervey (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) Brittany Runs A Marathon – Aug. 23 – Amazon Studios  Brittany Forgler is a 27-year-old hot mess of a New Yorker whose trashy nightclub adventures and early-morning walks of shame make her late for work every day. Suddenly forced to get a grip, Brittany laces up her Converse sneakers and runs one sweaty block. The next day, she runs two. Soon she runs a mile. Brittany finally has direction—but is she on the right path? Starring: Jillian Bell, Lil Rel, Michaela Watkins (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)  On Becoming a God in Central Florida – Aug. 25 – Showtime Krystal Gill, a minimum-wage-earning water park employee, eventually schemes her way up the ranks of Founders American Merchandise: the cultish, flag waving, multi-billion-dollar pyramid scheme that drove her family to ruin. Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Ted Levine, Theodore Pellerin (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Post Production) Power--Season 6 – Aug. 25 – STARZ  It appears James "Ghost" St. Patrick has it all— -- a drop-dead gorgeous wife, a stunning Manhattan penthouse, and the power and success that come with owning hot new nightclub, Truth. But a closer look reveals a man living a double life. When Ghost isn't tending to his Fortune 500 business, he's catering to clients of another operation: a drug empire that serves only the rich and influential. Starring: Omari Hardwick, Joseph Sikora, Naturi Naughton (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) Before You Know It – Aug. 30 – 1091 Media A pair of sisters find out that the mother they thought was dead is alive and starring on a soap opera. Starring: Judith Light, Alec Baldwin (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) The Goldfinch – Sept. 13 – WarnerBros  A boy in New York is taken in by a wealthy Upper East Side family after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Starring: Sarah Paulson, Ansel Elgort, Aneurin Barnard (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) Hustlers – Sept. 13 – STK Entertainment Inspired by the viral New York mMagazine article, Hustlers follows a crew of savvy former strip club employees who band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients. Starring: Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) The Sound of Silence – Sept. 20 – Sony Picture Worldwide Acquisition A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve. Starring: Bruce Altman, Tina Benko, Theodore Bouloukos (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) The Good Doctor – Season 3 – Sept. 23 – Sony Pictures A young surgeon with autism and savant syndrome uses his extraordinary gifts to save lives and challenge skepticism. Starring: Freddie Highmore, Richard Schiff, Hill Harper (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Post Production) Prodigal Son – Season 1 – Sept. 23 – Fox/WarnerBros Malcolm Bright, one of the best criminal psychologists around, uses his twisted genius to help the NYPD solve crimes. Starring: Michael Sheen, Tom Payne, Bellamy Young (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) Bull – Season 4 – Sept. 23 – CBS Brilliant, brash, and charming, Dr. Bull is the ultimate puppet master as he combines psychology, human intuition, and high-tech data to learn what makes jurors, attorneys, witnesses, and the accused tick. Starring: Michael Weatherly, Freddy Rodriguez, Geneva Carr (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) Law & Order: SVU – Season 21 – Sept. 26 – NBC Follows a crime (usually a murder), usually adapted from current headlines, from two separate vantage points—, the police investigation and the prosecution in court. Starring: Mariska Hargitay (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) Blue Bloods – Season 10 – Sept. 27 – CBS The series follows the Reagan family of police officers with the New York City Police Department (NYPD). Starring: Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan, Tom Selleck (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) The Report – Sept. 27 – Vice Media / Amazon Studios In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, CIA agents begin using extreme interrogation tactics on those they think were behind it. Starring: Adam Driver, Annette Benning, Jon Hamm (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) The Godfather of Harlem – Season 1 – Sept. 29 – ABC Studios/Epix A gangster named Bumpy Johnson makes his way in Harlem during the 1960s. A TV prequel to the 2007 film, 'American Gangster', which centered on the criminal enterprise of Frank Lucas. Starring: Forest Whitaker (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) God Friended Me – Season 2 – Sept. 29 – WarnerBros/CBS An outspoken atheist’s life is turned upside down when he receives a friend request on social media from God and unwittingly becomes an agent of change in the lives and destinies of others around him.  Starring: Brandon Michael Hall, Violett Beane, Joe Morton (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)

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Luce Scholars Program information session Monday - for students and alumni interested in Asia

Rising seniors, graduating seniors, alumni, graduate and professional students interested in gaining relevant professional experience in Asia may be interested in applying for the Luce Scholars Program: https://www.hluce.org/programs/luce-scholars/. This is a great opportunity for those with little or no prior experience in, or education about, Asian countries to add this valuable perspective to their future career interests! 

UW is able to nominate 3 students/alumni per year to compete nationally for the opportunity to spend 12 months in Asia. The program provides stipends, language training and individualized professional placement in Asia for fifteen to eighteen young Americans each year.

Information sessions starting next week:

Please join us to learn more about the program and nomination process:

·         Monday, May 6, 2019, 1:30pm, Mary Gates Hall 171

·         Thursday, May 23, 2019, 3:30pm, Mary Gates Hall 171

·         RSVP: https://expo.uw.edu/expo/rsvp/event/234

Eligibility:

During the current application cycle for the 2020-21 program, applicants must be US citizens or Permanent Residents who, by June 20, 2020, will have received at least a bachelor's degree and will not have reached their 30th birthday. Applicants should have a record of high achievement, outstanding leadership ability, and a clearly defined career interest with evidence of potential for professional accomplishment. Those who already have significant experience in Asia (over 18 weeks since graduating high school) or Asian studies are not eligible for the Luce Scholars Program. (Eligibility criteria are set by the Henry Luce Foundation; additional details below.) Students are welcome to be in touch with questions!

Campus application deadline: Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019

    UW online application form: https://expo.uw.edu/expo/apply/551

    UW application and nomination information: http://expd.uw.edu/expo/scholarships/luce

Luce Scholars Program Advisers at UW:

    For graduate students or alumni - Michelle Sutton, mdrapek@uw.edu, G-1 Communications

    For undergraduate students or alumni - Robin Chang, robinc@uw.edu 171 Mary Gates Hall

Program Summary:

The Luce Scholars Program represents a major effort by the Henry Luce Foundation to provide an awareness of Asia among potential leaders in American society. Launched in 1974, the Luce Scholars Program is aimed at a group of highly qualified young Americans in a variety of professional fields. It is unique among American-Asian exchanges in that it is intended for young leaders who have had limited experience of Asia and who might not otherwise have an opportunity in the normal course of their careers to come to know Asia.

Luce Scholars have backgrounds in virtually any field other than Asian studies, including but hardly limited to medicine and public health, the arts, law, science, environmental studies, international development, and journalism. Placements can be made in the following countries or regions in East and Southeast Asia: Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

In spite of its name, the Luce Scholars Program is experiential rather than academic in nature. Some Scholars have been attached to Asian universities in teaching or research capacities, but none of the participants is formally enrolled as a student in a college or university and no academic credit is extended. Past placements have included an architect's atelier in Tokyo; a public health program in Banda Aceh; a Gobi regional initiative in Ulaanbaatar; a dance theatre in Kuala Lumpur; an agricultural and environmental center in Hanoi; a human rights commission in Seoul; a pediatric hospital in Bangkok; a TV network in Beijing; a national museum in Siem Reap; an international arbitration centre in Singapore; and English-language newspapers, local governmental agencies and NGOs in diverse fields throughout East and Southeast Asia. Professional placements are arranged for each Scholar on the basis of his or her individual interest, background, qualifications, and experience.

Each Scholar spends July and August studying the language of the placement country, and the work assignments run for approximately ten months from September until July of the following year. The placements are intended primarily as learning opportunities for the Scholars. Certainly it is hoped that a Scholar will be able to make a professional contribution to the host organization, but equally important is a willingness to learn some of the many things that Asia has to teach.

UW's recent Luce Scholars:

2017 MPA graduate Elena Swartz was selected for the 2017-18 grant and spent last year in Nepal. Elena's focus in the Evans School was on Humanitarian Aid and Emergency Management. Read more about Elena at https://www.hluce.org/programs/luce-scholars/directory/elena-swartz/.

2015 UW graduate Varsha Govindaraju was selected for the 2015-16 grant and spent her Luce year Cambodia. Read the UAA article about Varsha at http://www.washington.edu/uaa/2015/03/18/robinson-center-student-varsha-govindaraju-selected-for-prestigious-luce-scholarship/, and an update discussing her year in Cambodia at http://www.washington.edu/uaa/2018/04/03/my-luce-year-in-cambodia/.

2013 UW graduate Genevieve Gebhart was selected in 2013 and spent 2013-14 in Laos and Thailand as a Luce Scholar. Read the UAA article and Q&A with Gennie at http://www.washington.edu/uaa/2013/03/15/honors-student-genevieve-gebhart-selected-for-luce-scholarship/.

2010 UW graduate Jesse Burk-Rafel was selected as a Luce Scholar in 2010 and spent 2010-2011 in Mongolia under the program. Read the UW News article about Jesse at http://www.washington.edu/news/2010/03/04/bioengineering-student-first-uw-undergraduate-awarded-prestigious-luce-scholarship-since-1977/.

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Bedside Cabinet Market Forecast, Trend Analysis & Competition Tracking

Bedside Cabinet Market Research Report 2018

The Research study provides Informative Data of the Bedside Cabinet market. Further, it evaluates qualitative and computable information of the market. In addition analysis of the this market scenario and future prospects are given. The Bedside Cabinet report initiate with the introduction and represents the market data in a specific and clear manner. This Report covers all the essential information regarding this industry which helps a user to grasp the overall market. Also, Bedside Cabinet report gives the readers with an approach to the competitive scenario of the market.

The report has been prepared based on the synthesis, analysis, and interpretation of information about the Bedside Cabinet market collected from specialized sources. The competitive landscape section of the report provides a clear insight into the market share analysis of key industry players. Company overview, financial overview, product portfolio, new project launched, recent development analysis are the parameters included in the profile.

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This report will give the user confidence to make the correct business decisions based on a detailed analysis of the industry market trends for the coming five years.The market opportunity section will inform the user about the various requirements that are expected to generate revenues during the forecast period. The description includes technical specifications, recent orders, and the expected investment pattern by the country during the forecast period.

Global Bedside Cabinet Market Regional Segment Analysis (Regional Production Volume, Consumption Volume, Revenue and Growth Rate)

USA,Europe,Japan,China,India,South East Asia

The major players in Global market include: ROCHE—BOBOIS, Kartell, Restoration Hardware, Florense, Hulsta, Martinelli Luce Spa, Quanyou, Hkroyal, Qumei, Redapple, Bedside Cabinets

On the basis on Main Product Type, this report covers : Wood, Polymer, Rattan, Ceramic, Other,

On the basis on the end users/application, this report covers: Home, Hotel, Hospital, Others

Important Questions Answered in this Report

1.What will the market size be in 2025? 2. What are the key factors driving the global market? 3. What are the challenges to market growth? 4. Who are the key players in the market? 5. What are the market opportunities and threats faced by the key players? 6. What will be the growth rate in 2025?

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Then this report presents a comprehensive assessment of the market and contains historical data and statistically supported and industry-validated market data. It also contains projections using a suitable set of assumptions and methodologies. The research report provides analysis and information according to market segments such as geography, technology, and applications.

Some Points from TOC:

1.Bedside Cabinet Market Overview 2. The Market Competition by Players/Manufacturers 3. The Bedside Cabinet Sales and Revenue by Region 4. The Bedside Cabinet Sales and Revenue by Type/ Product Category 5. The Bedside Cabinet Players/Suppliers Profiles and Sales. 6. The Industrial Chain, Sourcing Strategy and Downstream Buyers 7. Marketing Strategy Analysis, Distributors/Traders 8. Market Effect Factors Analysis 9. Continue…

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Pronto minicoche que funciona con aire comprimido

Nuevo artículo publicado en https://www.prozesa.com/2017/12/10/pronto-minicoche-que-funciona-con-aire-comprimido/

Pronto minicoche que funciona con aire comprimido

Una conocida empresa de la India anunció que este año comenzará a producir un motor de automóvil capaz de funcionar con aire.

Concebido por la compañía francesa Motor Development International y desarrollado por la india Tata Motors, el revolucionario dispositivo utiliza aire comprimido para empujar los pistones y hacer que el vehículo avance. El precio del auto al cual se le acoplará, llamado Airpod, rondaría los ocho mil dólares y es un modelo urbano ligero, con un chasis tubular y cuerpo de fibra de vidrio. Su velocidad máxima estará en el rango de los 70 kilómetros por hora. Para controlar sus funciones eléctricas se empleará un microprocesador, mientras un pequeño radiotransmisor enviará las instrucciones al sistema de luces y sus otros pocos dispositivos eléctricos. La temperatura del aire limpio expulsado por el tubo de escape fluctuará entre cero y 15 grados bajo cero, con lo que podrá utilizarse para alimentar el sistema de aire acondicionado interior sin necesidad de gases ni pérdida de potencia. El funcionamiento del motor comportará un costo inferior a los 1,12 dólares por cada 100 kilómetros, aproximadamente la décima parte que un coche convencional. Gracias a su simplicidad, también serán mínimos los gastos de mantenimiento y de cambio de aceite: solo será necesario un litro de aceite vegetal por cada 50 mil kilómetros. Las recargas de aire deberán efectuarse cada 300 kilómetros, en estaciones de servicio adaptadas con compresores especiales. La operación solo tomaría dos o tres minutos, a un precio promedio de 2,25 dólares. Pero también podría realizarse en casa mediante el compresor que lleva a bordo, con la ventaja de que el propietario podrá dormir a pierna suelta, pues no gastará nada en combustible, porque este, literalmente hablando, saldrá del aire. Ventajas, no tiene emisiones negativas, consumo bajo, autonomía suficiente, bajo coste. Desventajas, se debe gastar energía para comprimir el aire, por lo que si esta no es generada de una fuente limpia y renovable, aunque estaríamos evitando contaminación en el uso del coche, no lo estaríamos en el combustible.  

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Colorado Brewers Pour Over Heritage and History to Honor Cultural Traditions

Brewers pull from their culture and traditions to impact U.S. craft beer. (Credit: From the Hip Photo)

November 22, 2017

No sooner had humans erected the world’s first cities than they turned their attentions to fermenting beverages that could tame the stresses of their newfound urban lifestyles. Beer, one of several alcoholic elixirs developed along with permanent settlements, became an integral component of most of the world’s ancient and present civilizations. From a potion associated with divinity to a drink steeped in the folklore of blue-collar America, beer has since filled many important roles throughout human history.

However, today’s modern iteration of craft brews as a conduit to rant on social media about mouthfeel, nonics and “Vinnie nails” can make it seem like good beer has been entirely co-opted by beer literati, leaving the rest of us Joe Swiggers, who can’t tell a Brettanomyces from a brontosaurus, to twiddle our thumbs on the sidelines.

To bring back beer traditions and culture to “the people,” several innovative brewers in Colorado have taken it upon themselves to scour time and geography. Some are looking toward antiquity for inspiration while others are stepping no further than grandma’s pantry.

(READ: American Pale Ale is the Style that Changed Everything)

Brewer Borrows from His Mexican Heritage

Javier Pérez, founder of Cheluna Brewing, uses Mexican culture to influence his beers. (Credit: From the Hip Photo)

“I want to create beer that isn’t intimidating and to have Mexican cuisine and culture influence our beers,” says Javier Pérez, founder of Cheluna Brewing Company in Aurora, Colorado. “My wife and I want beer to be like food; before food becomes a gourmet, high-end dish served and priced to pay off someone’s culinary school loans, it’s first about common people creating amazing meals in grandma’s kitchen, and we want our beer to be about celebrating those common people coming together. I love that I can walk into our brewery and it feels like it’s my living room filled with friends.”

While Pérez revels in the Mexicanism of Cheluna, he also welcomes American sensibilities to play a role in how his beers are marketed, especially to Hispanic people. Despite Mexico’s cultural wealth, the country of 125 million inhabitants has at times struggled to craft inclusive messages in its pop culture. La India María, a famous indigenous television character whose buffoonery in Mexican slapstick comedies has been the topic of social justice grievances in many a collegiate theses, is just one example of mainstream disaffection toward ethnic minorities. Pérez says he wants to develop an IPA rendition paying tribute to Mexican indigenous women instead of mocking them.

“I want to make an IPA that’s really, really hoppy and call it La India Pale Ale, but our logo for it would be a Zapotec tribal woman, maybe with a rifle or something, so we don’t think of La India as an ignorant, barefoot person, but as a warrior who is intelligent and strong.”

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Some of the many nods to Mexican culture and cuisine served up at Cheluna include a mezcal barrel-aged blackberry imperial stout, a German-style witbier with habanero and chile (reminiscent of a popular street food treat in Mexico), a tamarind gose, and a porter infused with cacao, vanilla and toasted coconut. The Rozha hibiscus lager, the brewery’s most visually striking beverage, is Cheluna’s take on agua de Jamaica, a refreshing hibiscus tea sold in street stalls throughout all of Mexico.

If you visit this colorful taproom in Aurora, you can also expect to be served complimentary peanuts with lime and chile, Mexican style. Prepackaged bags of these delicious snacks are also available for purchase, in case you want to continue the fiesta at home.

Cheluna Brewing brews a gose with tamarind. (Credit: From the Hip Photo)

Another brewery dabbling with Mexican ingredients is the Epic Brewing Company. In August, Epic and Mexico City’s Casa Cervecera Cru Cru brewed a beer together as part of an 18-brewery binational endeavor spearheaded by the Brewers Association (publishers of CraftBeer.com), ACERMEX (Mexican Craft Beer Association), and the USDA office in Mexico City.

“It was a really good experience,” says Matthew Allred, communications director at Epic. “The head brewers from Cru Cru and Epic got together stateside to make Chapuline Gose, a gose seasoned with crickets and an interesting critter called an agave worm.”

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Although the ingredients might sound exotic, the flavor profile of the beer keeps with how a more conventional gose would taste.

“The crickets mostly contribute in color and add a bit of earthiness and smokiness,” Allred says. “The agave worm salt does add a bit of a spicy punch, but overall, it tastes like a gose.”

The beer goes on sale at the end of November.

Recreating Ancient Beer Recipes

Not many breweries can boast about having an in-house “beer archeologist,” so Avery Brewing’s Travis Rupp takes his title seriously. He says the position came about as a fusion of his two professions: researching and developing beer for Avery and teaching archaeology and ancient history at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

“When I was working in the taproom as a bartender, a bunch of employees asked if they could come to one of my lectures to listen in,” Rupp recalls. “Once a month, I would go buy a selection of beer that was BJCP (Beer Judge Certification Program) true-to-style, then I would give a lecture about the beer style and history. Once I moved into production, I started to put together more formal presentations at the production meetings.”

In his research, Rupp discovered there were large gaps in the documentation of certain beers in history, so he set out to find out everything he could about those beers. Not satisfied with knowledge unapplied, he decided to recreate the beers as best he could in the modern age, which led to the production of his line of beers, Ales of Antiquity.

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The series focuses primarily on what common people drank, not royalty. It includes an ancient Mycenaean-inspired beer from 1600-1100 BC brewed with 6-row barley, einkorn wheat, acorn flour, figs, and elderberries. There’s also a ninth-century Viking beer brewed with Scandinavian malt, juniper berries, juniper branches, and baker’s yeast.

The painstaking process for creating these beers has had some significant and at times hilarious missteps. Pachamama, a corn beer intended to replicate ancient Peruvian chicha had to be adapted to contemporary times after a bout with historical accuracy proved that sometimes the past is best left in the past.

In the original Chancay culture of the 1000-1400 A.D. period, chicha was produced by chewing a combination of corn, quinoa and beans and spitting the pulp into a mash so the saliva enzymes could stimulate natural fermentation. When Rupp enlisted the staff of Avery to chomp and spit corn into mash, the whole process took so long that the whole mixture solidified into a rock-hard mass that jammed the system. Rupp now uses an extract to simulate the effects of saliva.

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Brewers Pull Inspiration from Their Culture

There are other newcomers to Colorado’s beer scene hoping to focus on heritage ingredients and processes. Judd Belstock, one of the founders of Denver’s upcoming Dos Luces Brewery, says his brewery will be about reimagining beer.

Chapulin Gose is a collaboration from Epic Brewing and Mexico’s Casa Cervecera Cru Cru. (Credit: Epic Brewing)

“The core idea of what we’re trying to do is to create a world where what we think of beer isn’t limited to barley, hops, yeast and water,” Belstock says. The brewery, slated to open in the spring of 2018, will specialize in chicha and pulque, the traditional Mexican drink made from the sap of the maguey plant (an agave variety).

Like Rupp, Belstock will use purchased enzymes to ferment the chicha as opposed to trying to do it with saliva.

“I have no interest in doing 500-pound batches through chewing corn,” Belstock chuckles.

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Although he is adapting the recipe a bit for the modern age, he stresses that the ingredients will be sourced either from their indigenous origins or from local suppliers.

“I want to honor the cultures from which I’m borrowing,” he says. “But also, if you think about what inspires craft brewers in general, if you look back five- or six-thousand years ago, it’s making use of the local ingredients and technologies at hand.”

His pulque offerings will be hybridized with corn.

“Sour beer junkies will immediately recognize pulque’s flavor profile as familiar,” says Belstock. “Pulque is pretty easy to explain to people, I just say it’s basically a beer made out of mezcal.”

Sean Guerrero and his family lived in China, and his brewery, Jade Mountain, explores Chinese culture. (Credit: Jade Mountain Facebook Page)

Also opening in Denver in the spring of 2018 is Jade Mountain (current proposed site is on 1925 South Rosemary St., Suite D), a brewery that originated in Asia when Sean Guerrero and his wife, Jojo, moved their family from Denver to Huzhou, China.

“Surprisingly, there’s not much to opening up a brewery in China,” Guerrero says. “There is no licensing required, so I rented a small tea house, remodeled it and turned it into a small brewhouse.”

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Guerrero, who was born and raised in Denver, says he is proud to share part of his adopted culture with his fellow American beer drinkers.

“I felt a little bit lost with my own culture because I’m Hispanic but my parents and grandparents never spoke Spanish,” Guerrero says. “So when I met my wife and traveled throughout China, I got assimilated into what they were doing. Now I’m fluent in Chinese, my kids are half Chinese and the whole experience gave me more of an identity than I had before, so I hope to share some of that through beer.”

Many of the ingredients will be imported directly from China with some guidance from Guerrero’s wife.

“My wife helps me understand each ingredient,” Guerrero says. “She’s a scientist at the University of Denver so she is good with helping with different yeasts and she’s also great with pairing various flavors.”

Some of the more exotic elements found in the beers served at Jade Mountain will include bamboo leaves and shoots, hawthorn berries, jasmine, osmanthus flowers and other herbs and sweet woods Guerrero says he cannot name in English.

So what is next stage in the evolution of beer?

“The future has yet to be written,” says Steve Kurowski, director of operation at the Colorado’s Brewers Guild. “It’s impossible to predict how these creative minds are going to innovate this classic historic liquid.”

Efraín VillaAuthor Website

Efraín is a photographer, actor, writer and global wanderer whose endless quest for randomness has taken him to more than 50 countries in five continents. His writing has appeared on NPR’s Weekend Edition, the Good Men Project, TravelWorld International Magazine, Zymurgy, as well as Spanish language publications. While not running his consulting firm in Albuquerque, he is busy devouring exotic foods in faraway countries and avoiding adulthood while wearing the least amount of clothes possible. His travel stories dealing with the messiness, humor and beauty of cultural collisions can be found on his website: Aimless Vagabond. Read more by this author

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