10.08.2018 fri AP PHOTO Movies: Christopher Robin Book: Under a Dark Sky by Lori Rader-Day Music: Vicious by Halestorm Wine: The Emblem of Korea II F&B: Crispy tomato salad Macau Daily Times | Edition 3108 | 10 Aug 2018 Something’s cooking in Half of China’s black carbon comes from residential kitchens and heaters, but solar cookers want to change the paradigm X2 PÁTIO DA ILUSÃO illusion TRAVELOG Sam McNeil & Fu Ting, AP Solar cookout aims to woo traditional chefs, cut carbon AP PHOTOS he savory aromas of roas- ter-long solar cookers designed to sumer and producer of solar tech- ting hot dogs and chicken fold up for picnics. nologies. Many homes outside the kebabs wafted out of metal Temperatures can top 400 C inside largest cities are equipped with so- Tand glass vacuum tubes heated the black “BBQ tubes” of metal and lar water heaters. by mirrors curved to capture the glass with turnip-tipped bottoms But roughly 600 million of Chi- sun’s heat. and sealable tops. On a bright day, na’s 1.4 billion people still cook Two dozen chefs with white aprons they can boil water within 30 mi- with coal, wood or other biomass and hats prepared soups, baked nutes and roast a fish in half that despite decades of government- “baozi” pork buns, and boiled rice time, according to Himin. led initiatives to curtail soot from porridge at a festival designed to “It is clean and smoke-free . better such burning, according to a 2016 demonstrate the potential of so- than cooking with pots and other report by the Global Alliance for lar cookers that organizers claim things,” said Yu Liqiu, 22, a chef, Clean Cookstoves. can help reduce climate-changing who just began cooking with solar Affordable yet durable solar greenhouse gas emissions. two days earlier. cookers have long intrigued tho- “We aim to enable half of the se seeking to cut emissions, said world’s population to use solar ezhou, a sprawling city of 5 Frank Haugwitz, director of Asia cooking within 10 years,” said Dmillion in eastern China, has Europe Clean Energy Solar Advi- Huang Ming, founder of Himin spent millions since 2005 on trans- sory Company. Solar Energy Group, the solar forming itself into an aspiring “There’s a certainly a need for a cookout’s main backer. renewable energy hub called the cleaner option,” he said. As hundreds of people strolled by, “Solar Valley.” Eastern China is a “global hotspot” chefs armed with oven mitts sca- Public art displays at town bus for black carbon emissions – soo- led ladders to uncover piping-hot stops and murals use solar panels. ty particulates more damaging to cooking tubes arrayed on near- Stone statues of sun-related Chi- health and the environment than ly 2-meter-tall industrial racks. nese legends squat in parks. typical greenhouses gases – ac- Smaller-scale vendors used 1-me- China is the world’s biggest con- cording to a 2007 report in the DRIVE IN Jake Coyle, AP Film Writer HRISTOPHER OBIN A RETURN ‘C R ’ AP PHOTO TO HUNDRED ACRE WOOD h, bother. Humor has never been the for- tional land of the Hundred Acre The misfortune of “Chris- te of Forster (“Finding Never- Wood, Pooh and the rest are gi- Otopher Robin” is not only that land,” ‘’Quantum of Solace”), ving young Christopher Robin it comes a year after “Goodbye so don’t come to “Christopher a farewell party. “Don’t you get Christopher Robin,” an earnest Robin” expecting hijinks from all grow-ed up on us,” Tigger te- if sentimental tale about Winnie- Tigger or a single overstuffed lls him. But after a page-turning the-Pooh author A.A. Milne bear stuck in a doorway. Instead montage, Christopher Robin and his son, Christopher Robin Forster has fashioned a meticu- has indeed done just that. He’s Milne, but that it arrives a few lously handsome post-WWII now a working, married man in months after the screwball ra- period drama — perhaps one London, wed to Evelyn (Haley diance of “Paddington 2.” When more for adults than children Atwell), with a daughter named it comes to bears in London this — leaning much closer to “The Madeline (Bronte Carmichael) movie year, our hearts are alrea- Velveteen Rabbit” than Satur- and a grueling job. He’s an ef- This image released by Disney shows the character Tigger in a scene from “Christopher Robin” dy spoken for. day morning cartoon. ficiency manager for a luggage But for those who prefer honey There’s a degree of atonement in company housed in a towering though the form is a little novel. priorities are straightened out. suffocated, a little lifeless. Any to marmalade, “Christopher Ro- the stylistic shift; the real Chris- gray building. Like the other characters, Pooh He relearns Pooh’s wise advice semblance of authentic childlike bin” is a more gentle and melan- topher Robin (never a fan of the The demands of his work have looks more a glassy-eyed ted- that “doing nothing often leads glee remains purely theoretical. cholic fable about recapturing books) lamented the Disneyfi- drained all the fun out of Chris- dy bear than he has before, and to the very best something” — a It’s surely not a good sign when the joys of childhood as an adult cation of his father’s characters topher Robin, whose middle more frizzy than E.H. Shepard’s message that proves surprisin- Eeyore is the one stealing the with the help of a wise and inno- and never accepted royalties. name has been upgraded to illustrations. The digital effects gly relevant to the midcentury show. Watching “Christopher cent bear. It’s telling that in Marc And as with Disney’s 2106’s surname. He hasn’t so much as impressively double for tangib- workplace policies of Chris- Robin,” I couldn’t help feeling Forster’s comparatively somber “Pete’s Dragon,” there’s an un- smiled in years, Evelyn says. But le, hand-hewn felt creations, but topher’s luggage company, even a bit like Tigger when he arrives but sweet movie, the standout of likely, largely indie collection of on a particularly crucial work (aside from Owl) they crucially if Pooh mishears his job as “a in London and wonders: “How Milne’s furry creatures — all of filmmakers behind a relatively weekend, out pops Pooh from a lack lively eyes. fish-in-the-sea manager.” come nobody’s bouncin’?” them rendered digitally as worn- modest live-action revival. Alex Hundred Acre Wood portal from That keeps the gang (there’s It all fits together a little too out stuffed animals — is that old Ross Perry (“Listen Up Philip”), the trunk of a tree outside Chris- also Piglet, Rabbit, Kanga and well, too predictably and, well, “Christopher Robin,” a Walt Dis- grump Eeyore (voiced by Brad Tom McCarthy (“Spotlight”) and topher’s town house. Roo) always secondary on the too Disney. Pooh and company ney Co. release, is rated PG by the Garrett), whose morose mutte- Allison Schroeder (“Hidden Fi- The voice is instantly recogniza- screen to McGregor. Naturally, have always been a wonderfully Motion Picture Association of Ame- rings land nearly all the film’s gures”) wrote the script. ble (Pooh veteran Jim Cummin- Christopher is pulled back into neurotic bunch, but in Forster’s rica for “some action.” Running laughs. In the opening scenes in the fic- gs voices him, as well as Tigger) Hundred Acre Wood where his polished film, they’re a little time: 104 minutes. 10.08.2018 fri Solar cookout aims to woo traditional chefs, cut carbon academic journal Nature. Half of rural communities. “It’s kind of a Hotel, next to the field where the China’s black carbon comes from chicken and egg thing,” Haugwitz festival was staged and down an residential kitchens and heaters. said. air-conditioned hall past portraits Sun Penglong, 27, worked in gas Some experts fear solar is too big of Al Gore and other climate ad- kitchens in Dezhou for years be- a break from traditional Chinese vocates, Huang and other festival fore switching to solar. He says cooking. goers toasted the vacuum-tube new recipes must be invented and “It is good to have some innova- solar cookers with glasses of fiery tested for solar cooking, but there tion, but it’s impossible to change baiju, red wine and beer. is one unexpected perk: His wife people’s dietary habits,” said Xu Next came a marathon banquet doesn’t complain about the smell Qinhua, deputy director of Natio- of courses, including turtle soup he used to bring home in his work- nal Academy of Development and and pancakes served on platters clothes. Strategy under Renmin University with foot-tall figurines of Chinese “The first thing my wife used to ask of China. legends like the mythical archer me to do after returning home was “People used to say China’s fire- Houyi. According to legend, he to shower,” Sun said after roasting fried dish culture would be repla- shot dead nine suns before har- some beef skewers in a BBQ tube. ced by induction cookers, but no, nessing fire for humanity’s bene- “When I started as a solar chef, it was not.” fit. my wife asked me, ‘Where is your Himin has yet to produce a retail Ren Yanbo, vice secretary gene- smell?’” version of the cooker or sell it ou- ral of the Efficient Stove Division But getting solar cookers to the tside of Dezhou but the company of the China Association of Rural masses has proven daunting.