![]() ![]() Vigo died of tuberculosis shortly after, but his defiance lived on: François Truffaut cited Zero as a major influence on his own tale of troubled adolescence, The Four Hundred Blows. Though it now seems to occur in some nebulously ideal dreamworld, the film was banned by the French Ministry of the Interior, fearful of the dissidence it might incite. You get as much of a charge out of a boy talking back to his teacher as you do the students’ exhilarating, storm-the-barricades uprising, in which the patronizing adults (who Vigo brilliantly caricatures as stiff-backed, overweight or dwarfish tyrants) are tied up, pelted with sticks and driven into hiding as the children come to power. What resulted was anarchy in its purest form: This 41-minute wonder feels timeless in its presentation of disobedience, perhaps because it embraces childhood’s quotidian and fanciful aspects with equal fervor. The French director and artist Jean Vigo was at a low point in his career when a rich businessman agreed to finance his semiautobiographical tale of four rebellious boys at boarding school. But the commitment of all involved (especially debuting actors Chloë Sevigny and Rosario Dawson) was undeniable. A normal day in the life? Audiences cringed. ![]() With AIDS tearing apart the fabric of the city, these high-schoolers splash blithely in the pool of shared fluids-that is, when they’re not partaking in copious drug use, random acts of violence, homophobic slurs and rape. No one partied as hard as these untended NYC teens, and, it was implied, no one would suffer as much. But unlike many of the films on this list, Kids leaves an especially bitter aftertaste: Its rebellion is self-destructive. The behind-the-scenes story is legend: Scripted by a then-18-year-old Harmony Korine, a Washington Square skate rat directed by observant photographer Larry Clark, keen to make the ultimate teen movie and sold by distributor Harvey Weinstein, who consciously courted outrage-the movie is an emblem of indie provocation. ![]()
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If you purchase only the Plush, pre-orders will begin shipping approximately end of May (previously beginning of May). PRE-ORDER PERIOD: Tuesday,, 10PM PST ~ Sunday,, 6:59AM PST. ![]() ![]() The US's top counterintelligence agency estimates that Beijing steals $200 billion to $600 billion worth of economic secrets from the US every year. One of the most devastating types of policy violation is industrial espionage, which is also a criminal act. Xu's arrest and conviction are unique and shed light on a shadowy conflict in which Beijing is trying to wrestle global supremacy from the US using any means possible. ![]() Threats from Foreign Countries 5 China: Persistent Cyber Activities 5 Russia: A Sophisticated Adversary 8 Iran: An Increasing Cyber Threat 9 Targeted Technologies 11 III. He would invite them to China on academic pretexts and then slowly lure them to espionage. The Strategic Threat of Cyber Economic Espionage 4 II. US and UK intelligence chiefs call for vigilance on Chinas industrial spies Beijing is using every tool to steal western technology, FBI director says. Xu was arrested in Belgium and became the first Chinese intelligence officer to be extradited to the US.Īccording to the FBI and Department of Justice, Xu had since 2013 used multiple aliases to target US and third-country aviation companies and experts in that field. companies and organizations exploit security weaknesses in software. 39 Email attachments attempting to enter the networks of U.S. It often indicates a user profile.Ī security guard next to a jet engine turbo-fan at the China Aviation Expo in Beijing, September 20, 2005.Īfter the FBI determined that Zheng didn't willingly turn over any classified information, the GE Aviation employee began cooperating with the agency to lure Xu out of China. China conducts political and corporate espionage to access the networks of financial, defense and technology companies and research institutions in the United States. ![]() Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. Among those who took great interest in Hamilton’s treatise was Thomas Attwood Digges, one of several American industrial spies who prowled the British Isles in the late 18th and early 19th. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Immersive Nutcracker: A Winter Miracle is a light show and laser-illuminated spectacle that takes place at Lighthouse Artspace at Cit圜enter. The Immersive Nutcracker: A Winter Miracle In my opinion, the best time to watch the show is at night, set amidst the glittering lights along the strip. On Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, the fountain show starts at noon. Monday through Friday, this free show takes place every 30 minutes from 3 to 8 PM and 15 minutes from 8 PM to midnight. This free dancing water show is choreographed to well-known music that changes up throughout the year, especially for different holidays. It’s hard to beat the size and spectacle of the Bellagio Fountains. Lastly, on December 7, there will be a tree lighting ceremony with Josh Jacobs from the Las Vegas Raiders. ![]() In addition, there will be FREE photos with Santa! Plus, $2 from every skate rental will be donated to the NSPCA. Adults 21+ get free entry to Night Circus Sundays at Marquee with a skate rental.įamilies with kids may want to visit on December 1 to see Benny the Ice Skating Dog. On November 20 & 27 and December 4, 11, & 18, the Marquee Night Circus will take over The Rink with special performances and a live DJ. If you’re not sure when to go, check out these special events listed below. In 2022, The Rink at The Cosmopolitan opens November 15 and runs through January 2. Skate aids are available to rent at $15, as well.Įvery Monday & Tuesday, as well as on Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Day, a movie is shown on a large screen, too. Ice skate rentals start at $30, with discounts available for locals, military, and first responders. ![]() The extravaganza includes a 4,200 square foot ice skating rink, faux snow showers, firepits, s’mores, and wintery cocktails. The Cosmopolitan transforms its Boulevard rooftop pool area into a gorgeous Winter wonderland. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can also ask Siri to tell you the amount of charge remaining on your AirPods. In that case, just select it and point to your AirPods to check the remaining battery life. ![]() If you use macOS Catalina or earlier, you should already see a Bluetooth status icon on the menu bar. Here’s how to customize the menu bar on your Mac. You can then view the battery life on your AirPods with a single click. Tip: To make things easier, just drag and drop the Bluetooth control onto the menu bar. You should also find the charging case’s battery life if you just took your AirPods out of it. Then, tap the AirPlay icon to the top-right of the Music control, and you should see the amount of remaining charge underneath your AirPods. If you use an iPhone with Touch ID, swipe up from the bottom of the screen instead. Open the Control Center by swiping down from the top-right of the screen. If you don’t want to use the Batteries widget to check your AirPods battery life, you can use the AirPlay screen instead. ![]() Swipe to the right from the first Home screen slide to bring up Today View (if you don’t see it already), long-press a vacant area, tap Plus to access the widgets gallery and add the Batteries widget in the size that you want. If you use an iPad, then you can only add the Batteries widget to the Today View. Here’s how to manage widgets on your iPhone. You can also push it into the Today View. In that case, disabling Bluetooth will also solve the issue until Apple fixes it.Tip: Feel free to drag the Batteries widget around the Home screen. ![]() That might not be an option and you may not want to power the computer down, though. The first, and possibly most obvious, solution is to just keep your MacBook plugged in overnight. In the meantime, you have two options for avoiding the battery-draining Bluetooth bug in macOS Monterey 12.2. MacBook owners have reported the bug to Apple, but there’s no word yet on a fix. A Temporary Workaround for the Battery-Draining Bluetooth BugĮven with Power Nap turned on, this shouldn’t be happening. Every time the caps lock light turns on, that indicates the Mac has awakened from sleep mode. Even during sleep mode, In the video he recorded, you can see the effects of the bug. One owner left his caps lock on and allowed his MacBook to sleep. The battery-draining Bluetooth bug happens on both Intel and M1 Macs. Leave ur laptop unplugged & sleeping overnight, □□buh-bye to its battery! #goodtimes /O45y7MYLtl Here’s what the #macOS #Monterey 12.2 #bluetooth sleep/wake battery-murdering glitch looks like, personified by my keyboard’s capslock light. One user tweeted that his logs showed his MacBook waking up every few seconds for Bluetooth requests. Through checking log files and video recordings, the user community identified a new bug in Bluetooth under macOS Monterey 12.2. Looking at `pmset -g log`, it seems like it spent all night waking up every few seconds for bluetooth and drained all the battery. In the morning, the battery would be drained Apple tweeps: macOS 12.2 breaks something related with bluetooth + sleep/wake. Folks would leave their MacBooks unplugged overnight with a full battery. Quite a few reports on social media brought the issue to the world’s attention. The Problem with Bluetooth in macOS Monterey 12.2 One of them, a pretty serious data leak in Safari, was enough in and of itself to recommend “install this immediately.” Unfortunately, the update’s also introduced a battery-draining Bluetooth bug that drains some Macs’ batteries overnight. When macOS Monterey 12.2 released last week, it patched 13 major security flaws. ![]() ![]() ![]() Furthermore, in connection with JB Tools’ satisfaction guarantee, JB Tools matches the price and/or any promotion associated with its products. We can custom design corner reflectors to meet your specific needs. Our corner reflectors are manufactured of aluminum and supplied with mounting brackets. However, JB Tools’ customers can rest assured that JB Tools stands behind its Warranty Program and its Manufacturer Matching Policy,100% of the time. Trihedral Corner reflectors are a technique for achieving radar cross section enhancement over a view angle of about 35 degrees. 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![]() ![]() These pages offer biographical sketches of hundreds of musicians, arrangers, composers, songwriters, and producers, and provide discographies of their recordings, primarily on long-play albums. “This audiobook version of the picture book biography is magical.Space age pop often doesn't fit neatly into any of the standard genres such as jazz and rock, so many of the men and women who created space age pop have gone unrecognized, absent from any standard reference book or history. Brian Amador’s narration, combined with tracks of space aged music and sound effects, presents a carefully orchestrated experience, with each element of the illustrations perfectly represented in stereo sound.” -ALA Odyssey Honor Audiobook Award "The work of innovative composer Juan Garcia Esquivel is uniquely portrayed in this picture book biography by Susan Wood. ![]() Tonatiuh’s distinctive drawings, with collage textures and photographic elements, aptly capture Esquivel’s jazzy style, as do an appended author’s note, resource listing, and photograph." - School Library Journal’s Top Ten Latinx Books Later, he created music from his New York City studio, experimenting with tempos, dynamics, and chords. At 14, he worked as a paid pianist for radio shows, and at 17, he was an orchestra leader in Mexico City. "This book features musician, composer, and bandleader Juan García Esquivel (1918–2002), who removed the paper roll in his family’s player piano when he was a child so that he could make his own music. Incorporating funky fonts and far-out fashions, Tonatiuh’s unique artistic style harkens back to indigenous codex art and lends cultural authenticity to this pulsating picture-book biography.” - Pura Belpré Award "Duncan Tonatiuh creates a sense of sound and movement through energetic, textured collage illustrations that celebrate the life of innovative Mexican musician and composer Juan García Esquivel. "Through this book, the reader discovers the true power of music… A must-read." -Nerdy Book Club “As Wood and Tonatiuh demonstrate in this picture-book biography, being part of Juan Garcia Esquivel fandom could be insanely cool.” - Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, awarded CCBC Choice 2017 “A lively introduction to a somewhat obscure and profoundly innovative musical figure.” - Kirkuk Reviews ![]() ![]() Artist Duncan Tonatiuh created the book's illustrations using his award-winning style based on ancient Mexican art.Ĭheck out Esquivel’s crazy-cool sound right here ! It’s out of this world! Juan was a true musical innovator, using sound and stereo as his musical palette.Įsquivel! Space-Age Sound Artist was written by Susan Wood. Juan's music is quirky, fun, and truly out of this world, with unusual instrumentation and unorthodox vocal textures and effects. “Incorporates enough sound effects to make Esquivel proud.” - BooklistĪ self-taught Mexican composer, arranger, bandleader, and pianist, Juan García Esquivel was a pioneer in the use of stereo sound in the 1950s and '60s. “A beautiful addition to music biography collections for upper elementary students.” - School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW ![]() ![]() Along coasts, the water slowly rises up over the shore and then slowly falls back again. As of the end of 2020, no tidal fence projects were operating in the United States.The regular rise and fall of the ocean’s waters are known as tides. Water passing through the turbines generates electricity. Cobscook Bay Tidal Energy Project in MaineĪ tidal fence is a type of tidal power system that has vertical axis turbines mounted in a fence or row placed on the sea bed, similar to tidal turbines.Western Passage Tidal Energy Project in Maine.Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) Project Pilot in the East River of New York.There are several demonstration tidal energy projects in various stages of development in the United states including: Tidal turbines are more expensive to build than wind turbines but can capture more energy with the same size blades. Because water is about 800 times denser than air, tidal turbines have to be much sturdier and heavier than wind turbines. They can be placed on the sea floor where there is strong tidal flow. Tidal turbines are similar to wind turbines in that they have blades that turn a rotor to power a generator. Source: Adapted from National Energy Education Development Project (public domain) Tidal turbines China, Russia, and South Korea all have smaller tidal power plants. The next largest tidal power plant is in Annapolis Royal in Nova Scotia, Canada, with 20 MW of electricity generation capacity. The oldest and second-largest operating tidal power plant is in La Rance, France, with 240 MW of electricity generation capacity. The Sihwa Lake Tidal Power Station in South Korea has the largest electricity generation capacity at 254 megawatts (MW). Several tidal power barrages operate around the world. They can also affect navigation and recreation. Tidal barrages can change the tidal level in the basin and increase turbidity (the amount of matter in suspension in the water). A two-way tidal power system generates electricity from both the incoming and outgoing tides.Ī potential disadvantage of tidal power is the effect a tidal station can have on plants and animals in estuaries of the tidal basin. Sluice gates on the barrage control water levels and flow rates to allow the tidal basin to fill on the incoming high tides and to empty through an electricity turbine system on the outgoing ebb tide. The barrage is installed across an inlet of an ocean bay or lagoon that forms a tidal basin. One type of tidal energy system uses a structure similar to a dam called a barrage. ![]() Two places in the United States with potential for tidal power are the Cook Inlet of Alaska, which has the second-highest tidal range in North America, and several places in Maine. The United States does not have any commercially operating tidal energy power plants, although several demonstrations projects are in various stages of development. ![]() Producing tidal energy economically requires a tidal range of at least 10 feet. Today, there are tidal energy systems that generate electricity. People in Europe harnessed this movement of water to operate grain mills more than a 1,000 years ago. In some places, tides cause water levels near the shore to rise and fall up to 40 feet. The gravitational pull of the moon and sun along with the rotation of the earth create tides in the oceans. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Must focus on your pronunciation should be clear. Just speak in the same direction all time.Ĥ. Speak loudly with timing and also use peaceful places.ģ. Use high definition sound device and high-quality Mic.Ģ. Transcribe audios Join 430,000+ highly productive teams and users How to transcribe Spanish audio to text 1. 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