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Ameco opens Prairieville location

Ameco, a construction and maintenance service company, has opened an operations center in Prairieville.

The location at 15089 Airline Highway will support capital construction, operations and maintenance, shutdown and turnaround and disaster relief efforts to engineering, procurement and construction contractors.

Ameco said it is currently working on capital construction projects worth $12 billion from the new facility. The location has 8,000 square feet of office and warehouse space on 6.5 acres.

LSU selected by Amazon as education partner

LSU has been selected as an education partner for Amazon’s Career Choice program, providing hourly employees that live in Louisiana and work for the company access to online and on-campus bachelor’s degrees and short-form college credit certificates.

The university expects to offer degrees and college credit certificates to Amazon employees through LSU, LSU Shreveport, LSU Eunice and LSU Alexandria.

The career choice program allows employees to learn new skills. In the U.S., Amazon is investing $1.2 billion to upskill more than 300,000 employees by 2025 to help move them into higher-paying, in-demand jobs.

For information on Amazon’s Career Choice, visit aboutamazon.com/news/workplace/career-choice.

Red Stick Social expands hours, announces new management

After cutting back hours due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Red Stick Social is back to operating seven days a week.

The Government Street business offers bowling, live music, private event space, food and drinks spread across five levels.

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The business has a new senior management team.

Michael Hueffer is general manager. The Baton Rouge native has more than 30 years of high-volume service industry and hospitality management experience.

Derrick Milton, executive chef, is another Baton Rouge native. He has more than 25 years of culinary experience

Julie Ybarra, acting sales director, has more than 20 years of corporate and event sales and management experience.

Later this month, Red Stick Social will begin improvements and upgrades to its outdoor green space including the installation of a large, permanent outdoor stage and all-weather artificial surface to replace the existing temporary stage and grass surface. Further planned improvements to the outdoor space include the addition of a container bar, shade structures and seating. Interior improvements are also planned to enhance food and beverage offerings along with expanded private event and entertainment space.

LSU computer science professor studies smartphone security

Chen Wang, an assistant professor of computer science at LSU, is working on a gripping-hand verification method that ensures the correct user is holding a smartphone before displaying potentially sensitive content, such as incoming calls, emails or app notifications.

Wang is working with third-year doctoral student Long Huang on the security measures.

When a notification tone is played, the phone’s mic records the sound. An AI-based algorithm processes the sound and extracts biometric features to match with the user’s feature profile, or recorded hand grip. If there is a match, the verification is successful, and the notification preview is displayed on the screen. 

Because music sounds are signals, they can

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Vital Electronic improves free of charge KD App, offering zero-programming AVoIP procedure regulate

Essential Digital’s absolutely free iOS KD App supplies a sweeping array of intuitive device handle, which includes finger drags for online video wall structure, input/output mapping, camera and show management, and now, external source manage.

iOS KD App

iOS KD App

iOS KD App

New York, Dec. 29, 2021 (World NEWSWIRE) —

Important Electronic enhances no cost KD App, providing zero-programming AVoIP process control

— The addition of source management abilities helps make the free of charge KD App a absolutely-rounded program controller for most AV jobs, lessening value and simplifying configuration and procedure —

MOUNT VERNON, NY, December 29, 2021 – Uncomplicated, quick-to-use and simple-to-comprehend finish-user manage is an ultimate goal of AV installations – a system’s capabilities simply just are irrelevant if the customer can’t determine out how to run it. With a lot of programs, sophisticated and pricey programing is vital to produce these kinds of an conclusion-user encounter, the place professional awareness is needed for even slight procedure updates. Now, with the addition of resource manage to the no cost iOS KD Application from Important Digital®, the currently subtle however consumer-friendly application presents powerful, concise manage of Essential Digital App All set equipment at no cost, with no programming. Not only does KD App control Crucial Digital’s detailed line of AV around IP encoder/decoder, switcher, matrix, multi-watch and online video wall units, but, with the IR and IP PJLink regulate capabilities of related program products, control can also be prolonged to quite a few exhibit brands and resource gadgets. “KD App has turn into so potent,” suggests Key Digital vice president of revenue DeWayne Rains, “that 90% of the jobs out there can now be completed with zero programming,”

Critical Electronic, an award-profitable developer and producer of top-edge electronic video clip processing, online video sign distribution and AV above IP options, pioneered drag and drop programming with the growth of the modular programming technique for Compass Management Pro, a manage technique that unites finish AV system manage and signal management – peripherals, resources, shows, audio techniques, lights units – in one iOS application for manage of products and solutions from a lot more than 100 Compass Alliance Lover models. “Having a regulate process teaches you so considerably about the conclude user’s encounter,” says vice president of products education and learning and experience Jonathon Ferry. “The expertise acquired from building Compass Manage has been utilized to the benefit of our customers in the development of KD Application.”

KD App was launched as a one-purpose software to give end end users transportable and self-contained control of choose Key Digital units. As capabilities have been included to the application, it has developed into a broadly highlighted command answer that incorporates finish-person-outlined presets, input/output switching, movie preview, intuitive finger-drag video clip wall regulate, welcoming product names, display control, CEC and local input collection – with supply regulate now included to round out the feature set.

Once KD Application is downloaded from the Apple Application Store and the Apple iphone or iPad

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