Spanish LGTBI+ animation shorts at Instituto Cervantes

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DURING the month of July, Instituto Cervantes’ Vimeo channel will host the short-film series Zinegoak, featuring eight animation LGTBI+ stories by various Basque filmmakers. This film cycle presents personal stories, reflections, and testimonies that deal with gender identity, homosexual love and transsexuality, focusing on an underrepresented genre in cinema.

The series will kick off on July 5 & 6, with the screening of the 8-minute animation film Azaletik azalera, released in 2021 by Mel Arranz. A multi-awarded short film, the work manages to materialize bodily intimacy, through detailed shots of the touching of skins, something hardly representable in real image cinema. The short film will be available for 48 hours through this link: https://vimeo.com/824067226. The film series will continue on July 8 & 9, with La mesa (Adrian García Gomez, 2019), a short film that challenges the representation of men, love and masculinity, which can be accessed at https://vimeo.com/827926201.

The second week of the cycle will feature Beti bezperako koplak (2016), another short film directed by various filmmakers that denounces male violence and abuse against women. Available for viewing on July 12 & 13 through https://vimeo.com/824069808. On July 15 & 16 directors Paco Ramirez and Tanya O’Carroll will present their short film Thara (2018). The documentary, which depicts the life and difficulties of a Honduran transsexual woman, can be watched at https://vimeo.com/830183775.

In the third week, on July 19 & 20, the animated documentary Dejarse crecer el cuerpo (2022) by Andrea Gudiño will be presented. It consists of six real testimonies of people with different, non binary gender identities and is an interesting approach to the different ways of conceiving identity and the relationship with one’s own body and love. It can be viewed at https://vimeo.com/827934522. Following this film is Ezohikoak (2022, Alejandra Bueno) a film about the roles of women in Basque culture, which on July 22 & 23 will be shown at https://vimeo.com/824069976.

On the last week of the film cycle, on July 26-27, catch Garelako (2015, Usue Egia), which is a call for freedom to all to define themselves and feel as each and everyone wants. It will be accessible at https://vimeo.com/828266180. Lastly, the animated documentary Makun (2015, Emilio Martí), which depicts the harsh reality of detention centers for foreigners who left their countries to be themselves, will conclude the film cycle on July 29-30, and will be available at https://vimeo.com/827930587.

The movies, presented by Instituto Cervantes in collaboration with Zinegoak Film festival, will be in Spanish or Basque with English subtitles. Admission is free. For further information and updates on this film series, please check out Instituto Cervantes’ Facebook site (www.facebook.com/InstitutoCervantesManila) or the event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/222136474040685

For further information about the cultural program of Instituto Cervantes please visit Instituto Cervantes’ website (http://manila.cervantes.es), or Instituto Cervantes Facebook page www.facebook.com/InstitutoCervantesManila.

Why Is AI Important and How Is It Used?

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AI is part of our daily lives. Businesses use AI as it provides faster and more efficient services, but how does it affect our lives? Read on to find out!
AI Technology and Reasons Why People Use It Explained

AI technology refers to any program that overwrites itself. Almost everything we use on the internet, even casinos like vulkanvegas.сom, uses artificial intelligence. There are many reasons why people use it—and by people, we mean the operators of the software program. We will discuss these reasons to fully understand why AI is a necessity and not just a fad.


Fast and Efficient

Computers are fast and efficient; there is no doubt about that. Artificial intelligence, with its capacity to think and overwrite itself, can make faster decisions.

If you use YouTube, you must know by now that there is no human being who decides what should be on your feed. The same goes for Facebook or TikTok. It is the AI that thinks about what is appropriate for you to view or what channels and videos you may be interested in.

Its speed, compared to humans, is unmatched, and it can process things so quickly. If you use a human to process things manually, they will take so much time and effort, which would be highly inefficient.

In addition to speed and efficiency, AI is also highly accurate. It is why many companies that use statistical models now rely on the technology to solve statistical problems. Surely, there is still a human element to how these machines work, but then their roles are pretty much relegated to managing big data and programming the AI.


Analysis of Data

Many people use AI to analyze data, and they want it to analyze data so quickly that they can make decisions at a fast speed. Artificial intelligence can analyze tonnes of information and uncover patterns in mere seconds. From here, the technology decides what to do.

Going back to the YouTube example, the AI processes what you typed on the YouTube search box and then presents videos to you later on — videos related to what you searched for.

This technology also takes into account other things you do online. It is why ads follow you no matter where you go. Many websites use what we call a pixel or a tag. These are codes inside a website that fire instructions to the AI about what you do.

Let us say you visited an online store, and that online store has a Facebook Pixel. That pixel knows that you visited that online store. That pixel also knows that you have a Facebook account. The following morning, you log in to your FB account and see an ad for that specific store. How did that store “follow” you to your website?

The store’s pixel notified Facebook’s AI that you visited the website. It knows that you have a Facebook account. Since you visited that website, Facebook naturally “thinks” that you are interested in the product.

If it so happens that the website has an ongoing ad with Facebook, FB Artificial intelligence knows that you visited that website. As such, it would show you the ad for that company. As you can see, the AI analyzed a pattern of your behavior so efficiently and also acted on it.


Business Reasons

People use AI for business reasons. Here are some common examples:

● Targeting Efforts – retailers use it to tailor their targeting efforts in relation to their marketing campaigns.

● Research – you can use AI programs to search for almost anything. For example, there are machines that scrape data from all Shopify stores. This will show you data about which products sell the most.

● SEO – Artificial intelligence machines can also analyze what drives traffic to websites. As a blogger or website owner, you can use them to tell you how to improve your search engine optimization efforts.

In a broad overview, here are some more reasons why businesses use AI:



● Efficiency in productivity;

● Speed and accuracy of conducting business;

● Expansion and scaling of a business;

● Improved monitoring of stats.



Businesses also use this technology to gain a competitive advantage. Today, some machines can draw, write, rewrite, and even create storylines and scripts for YouTubers.

AI can also help customers in so many ways. Today, it is not uncommon for customers to speak with chatbots. These chatbots use AI programs to operate. While they do not really speak the way humans do, they can navigate the knowledge base of a company and offer a particular solution to a customer.

If Artificial intelligence cannot find an answer to the customer’s inquiries, only then will this technology transfer the customer to a real human being for customer support.

Artificial Intelligence is getting better and better as days go by. Even car manufacturers now use to develop self-driving cars.

It takes a village and a lot of effort to build technology like this. Although people say that AI is dangerous, we are confident that folks who develop these systems know what they are doing. It was created by the smartest minds for all of us to make our lives easier and some processes more optimized.

7-Eleven invites Filipinos for a ‘grocery day’ with over 300 items in their anniversary sale

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Convenience store giant 7-Eleven Philippines marks another anniversary with a giving-back treat to customers this 7-Eleven Day. Happening on July 7 to 11, the 24-hour, five-day birthday sale is dubbed as the brand’s biggest bash, with discounts of up to 50% across over 300 item categories plus limited-time deals on its in-house eats like Crunch Time Chicken, City Cafe, 7-Fresh Siopao, and Big Bite Hotdog.

As 7-Eleven continues to lead the industry in store footprint, meal innovations, and service enhancements, 7-Eleven Day is another effort to show gratitude to its customers who continue to flock to the brand’s thousands of neighborhood stores. What’s more, 7-Eleven is positioning this year’s celebration as a ‘grocery day’ for the public with big discounts and deals available for pantry essentials and personal care items.

Pantry favorites that will be on sale include soft drinks, noodles, sweets, biscuits, chips, bread, and even alcoholic beverages. The same discounts and deals also apply to personal care products such as popular toothpaste, lotion, and soap brands, making the five-day event the perfect time to save and stock up for Filipinos.

Apart from the price markdowns on its grocery items, 7-Eleven is also slashing off prices from its in-house food classics.. Every order of one-piece Crunch Time Chicken will be sold at P10 off from July 6 to 11; City Cafe and Prima coffee selections in small cups are at P20 off on Jul 11; all variants of Big Bite Hotdog will only ring at the till for P23 on July 11; and the different flavors of the 7-Fresh Siopao – pancit crab, adobo, asado, and bola-bola – will have P6 discount on July 11 as well.

Rallying around the theme of customers “deserving” this special treat – 7-Eleven pulls all the stops to make this sulit sale event possible as it celebrates another year of being Filipinos’ convenience store favorite

Troop to the nearest 7-Eleven store nationwide from July 7 to 11 to avail of the sale items. To allow more people to enjoy the discounts, a quantity limit for each sale item per customer will be strictly implemented. Sale items per day may vary per store. For more information and updates, visit 7-Eleven’s website and social media pages.

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