Esteban Bravo (left) and Beth David Courtesy of Esteban Bravo and Beth David The film follows the boy as he tries to contain his heart, all the while containing the emotions that are common when a person’s crush is revealed. In the story, a school-aged boy is outed by his very own heart, which pops out of his chest to chase down another male classmate on whom the boy has a crush. “It’s an innocent and lighthearted story about a boy and his crush that we hope will resonate with younger people regardless of their background.” “With, we wanted to challenge the preconceived notion that LGBTQ content is not appropriate or suitable for younger audiences,” Bravo said. Miss You In A Heartbeat was the second ballad to be released from the album and another track from the Make Love Like A Man UK single that was reworked. Censors in Malaysia requested scenes be removed, the film was given a 16 age-plus rating in Russia, and the film was even pulled from a theater in Alabama. In fact, when Disney made a live action version of its critically acclaimed animated film “Beauty and the Beast” this past spring, a backlash resulted from the depiction of the character LeFou as gay. “Especially in a medium like animation that is predominantly geared towards children and family.” “There have been a few nods to the LGBTQ community in recent children’s programming … but it’s very rare that an LGBTQ character is given the spotlight,” Bravo said. David and Bravo hope the film can help tackle what they believe is a lack of LGBTQ representation in media and animation. Now the completed animated short film - titled “In a Heartbeat” - has just been released on Vimeo and Youtube, and the YouTube clip alone has garnered nearly 2.4 million views in just one day. When a trailer for the film was finally released in the spring, the short clip went viral across social media and was viewed more than one million times. The idea resonated with a lot of people, and the two animation students at Ringling School of Art and Design in Florida were able to raise more than $14,000 on Kickstarter to finance the making of the film last December. We realized that we had something that could potentially be really special to us.” Film still from "In a Heartbeat" Beth David and Esteban Bravo “But it wasn’t until we made it about a same-gender crush that the idea really started to take form and resonate with Esteban and I. We implement Chime on a campus-scale test-bed and achieve a median gain of 3.4 dB in SINR leading to a median increase in battery life of 230% (~1.4-5.7 years), data rate by 3.3X and reduction in interference of 2.8X over commodity LP-WANs.“The original pitch was a story between a boy and a girl,” David told NBC News. Chime achieves this by analyzing the wireless channels of this packet across many base stations to disentangle multipath and ascertain an optimal frequency that maximizes client battery life and minimizes interference. This paper presents Chime, a system enabling LP-WAN base stations to identify an optimal frequency of operation after the client sends one packet at one frequency. Among them, we show how choosing a select few of these frequencies(<3.55%) effectively triples the battery life when compared to the rest for LP-WAN devices. However, the low bandwidth of LP-WANs means that there are hundreds of operating frequencies to choose from. In multipath-rich urban environments, received signal power varies rapidly with a low-power transmitter's frequency, impacting its transmission time, data rate and battery life.
Yet, the battery life and performance of LP-WAN devices varies greatly based on their operating frequency. Low-power Wide-Area Networks (LP-WANs) are seen as a leading candidate to network the Internet-of-Things at city-scale.
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