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Using ANSYS to Model LiDAR Components
In today's world of interconnected smart technology, it is more important than ever to design products with an understanding of how their electrical components interact with one-another internally, as well as with other products and systems interfacing with the Internet of Things.
This is especially true with tools developed for 3D imaging technology like Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR). With a growing number of applications such as ensuring the safety of passengers in autonomous vehicles thanks to advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), LiDAR is on the cutting edge of today's more complex technological advancements, and thus requires a good deal of simulating to ensure safe, and effective real-world use.
ANSYS electromagnetics software can simulate performance across component, circuit, and system design, helping to achieve first-pass system design success, along with incorporating additional structural and thermal elements that can aid in ensuring secure and efficient packaging design.
Join PADT's Lead Electromagnetics Engineer Michael Griesi, along with Jeff Earls, Senior Electronic Device Engineer at TriLumina Corp., for a look at how ANSYS Q3D is being used to model LiDAR components.
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Curry, Hunter and Vaughn have advanced to the next stage of the Magic's coaching search, the Orlando Sentinel has learned from an NBA source with knowledge of the team's thinking.
In total, the trio has one season of head-coaching experience.
Magic general manager Rob Hennigan already has conducted first-round interviews with Curry, Hunter and Vaughn, and Magic CEO Alex Martins will hold the second-round interviews.
From there, Hennigan and Martins will whittle the list down to one or two finalists, and the remaining candidate or candidates will meet with members of the DeVos family in Grand Rapids, Mich., before a hire is made.
Magic officials would not comment Monday.
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Curry, 43, has the most extensive coaching résumé.
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In 2008-09, he coached the Detroit Pistons to a 39-43 record.
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Vaughn, 37, has just finished his second season as a San Antonio Spurs' assistant coach. He currently is coaching the Spurs' NBA Summer League team in Las Vegas.
Vaughn is presumed by many to be the front-runner for the job.
He played one season for the Magic and also played for the Spurs when Hennigan worked in the Spurs' front office.
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Hennigan also interviewed Golden State Warriors lead assistant coach Michael Malone, Indiana Pacers associate head coach Brian Shaw and Utah Jazz assistant coach Jeff Hornacek.
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The late-night host compared his acting parts, including that of the lead dragon-slaying trainer, to cooking spices and urged filmmakers to maintain just "a sprinkling."
"If you put the right spice in a dish it's terrific," says Ferguson. "Too much, and it's terrible and inedible. They had just the right amount of me."
And should "Dragon" continue to earn raves and dominate the box-office, it will be a new day for Ferguson.
"My sort of signature thing is I am usually in crap," he continues. "So to be in something good is sort off the brand for me."


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Ralph.rimet needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 74 designs submitted by 5 freelance designers.
SECU4 (http://www.secu4.com)
SECU4 develops for its client new protection solutions for valuables and people based on wireless technologies.
In 2009 SECU4 has been selected by Red Herring in the Top 100 of the most promising start-up company in the world in San Diego in the USA.
SECU4 develops the BlueWatchDog
The BlueWatchDog is a personal alarm system protecting your valuables, like laptop bags, luggage and bags against theft and loss.
BlueWatchDog operates via mobile phones using the Bluetooth connection. It consists of credit card size device which can be inserted in an object you want to protect and of a Software to download on the mobile phone. Thus, as soon as the object is removed from 1 to 30 metres from its owner the mobile phone rings or vibrates and displays a warning message on the screen. Then after a few seconds an alarm of about 100 decibels engages on the valuable to protect it and make the thief flee.
We are preparing the very first "made for iPhone" accessory working on Bluetooth and dedicated to security.
Our product is already used by many thousands of people around the world.
For the official iPhone lauch we want to prepare a new design of our application which reflects the innovation, the dynamisme and the quality of our company.
Globally the product is aimed at a very broad range of potential clients since the only gating factor is to be the owner of a compatible mobile phone, most of the time a smartphone.
However, our current and ideal client profile is the business traveller between 25 and 45 years old.
If we enlarge the target client spectrum one finds the following high potential profiles;
travellers and tourists,
suburban commuters travelling into and out of the city on a daily basis,
computer specialists and more generally all owners of laptop PC's,
parents wanting to protect their children,
IT Managers of large companies.
The product has a pricing of 59 Euros, 89 USD, and is positionned as a mass market product in the Bluetooth field with a qualitative and innovative image.
For the launch of the iPhone version we are looking for a unique and qualitative design which stays accessible to all customers listed and which respects and follows the Apple apps style.
We are looking for a design which integrates the already existing icons and look for a dynamique structure of the app.
We are looking to redesign the main screen. We are looking for the "Waouh effect".
To understand how to design the app' you have to understand first how the product works.
Please consult those 2 videos under http://www.secu4.com/en/video.html :
- BlueWatchDog Presentation
- BlueWatchDog's Software Presentation
Task :
Generic task is to create a new design for the following screens :
1° the intro screen (opening design)
2° the main screen (structure and design of the page) (think about ergonomy)
3° the secondary screens (help, video page)
Specific demand :
- Keep the existing icons (optional, If you really have a great idea -> change them),
- On every screens we would like to find :
the 4 parameters (distance, sound level, delay and ringtone/vibrate)
The "SECU4" logo
the "Exit" button,
the "Help" button,
the "locate" function,
the BlueWatchDog battery level.
See an exemple of the disposition of those elements in the uploaded files to see what we are expecting in this new application.
- Integrate a screen change for :
the armed mode,
the disarmed mode,
the alert mode,
For any additional info we are at disposal at the following e-mail address : firstname.lastname@example.com


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Liberty News
Pepsi becomes first corporate sponsor of Ultimate LU
Liberty University is pleased to announce Pepsi as the first corporate sponsor of the Ultimate LU campaign. Under the agreement, the beverage company will help support the university's men's and women's hockey teams as well as various on-campus events and outdoor activities.
"Pepsi has enjoyed our relationship with Liberty," said William Davis, a key account manager for Pepsi. "We feel like it's been very positive for both Pepsi and Liberty. Adding these outdoor activities and various events that we are looking at sponsoring - I just think is more advantageous for Pepsi as a company and Liberty going forward."
|William Davis, a key account manager (left) for Pepsi presents a check to Liberty's Director of Student Activities Chris Misiano (right). The beverage company is the first corporate sponsor of Ultimate LU, supporting the university's club sports, on-campus events and outdoor activities.
Ultimate LU is an initiative instituted by Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. that enhances the quality of the university's club and intramural sports by establishing new sporting facilities on campus. These additions include a 10-acre archery range, motocross track, dual-field paintball complex, future indoor soccer/multipurpose center and the upcoming artificial ski slope.
Another facet of Ultimate LU is Liberty's Student Activities department, which offers events such as video game tournaments, open mic nights, and Coffeehouse (a variety/talent show that is one of Liberty's most widely attended events).
Since Ultimate LU's inception, the university has hosted an extreme mountain bike race and an intense half-marathon on its 5,000-acre mountain property. An array of on-campus competitions and events are currently in the works, allowing for future sponsorship opportunities.
"It's very helpful to have sponsors such as Pepsi," Liberty's Director of Student Activities Chris Misiano said. "It allows us to do more with providing prizes and opportunities at our events, so that more students can come and have a good time."


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During the engagement, you enter into a live question and answer session with a schuh operator either by text chat or live video call where we share the webpage. We maintain dialogue transcripts of these chats. After the chat, we will ask you to fill out an exit survey in order to obtain valuable feedback about the levels of our service. Filling out the exit survey is completely voluntary. Moreover, all personal data is only collected if you voluntarily supply it, e.g. when completing a contact us form. If during the live engagement you choose to enter personal or business data (email addresses, names, addresses), the disclosure of such data is done so by you on a voluntary basis. Such information is not passed to any third parties or used for any other purpose(s) than that/those requested by you. We log browser information (e.g. Internet Protocol addresses and browser types) to help diagnose problems with our server, gather broad demographic information and administer our site. By choosing to engage in a chat or video call and use the services, you consent to such logging and processing of IP address.
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We access the information we collect for certain purposes (for example, to aggregate the information, to monitor the use of the service during certain engagements and for other lawful purposes). All schuh customer information, including personally identifiable information, will not be shared with anyone. We do not sell trade or rent the personal information that our customers provide.
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The pride of San Francisco's comedy scene isn't too impressed with what another Bay Area icon is offering the world.
Funnyman Robin Williams stop by the Ellen Degeneres Show this week and offered an impression of the Apple iPhone's Siri feature.
Not only did the comedian mock the voice of the app but he also took the opportunity to rail on what the iPhone has done to society.
In a mock response from Siri to an iPhone owner, Williams had a little fun at Apple's expense.
"Look around you, why must you ask a phone?" He said in a mocking French Siri accent. "Live your life. Taking pictures with your phone. Look. Look and then paint."
Check out the full clip from the show below.


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First off: Thank you all, so so so much, for this. I keep trying to do the math on how many vaccinations we've provided for kids in need around the world, but I ran out of fingers *and* toes and I think my abacus is still packed up in the garage. Which is more than half-way unpacked, I'll have you know, all by my own self.
#Blogust rages on, with a post today by my dear friend and fellow Coloradan Julie Marsh, who wrote an amazingly lovely post about science, bitches. I have the smartest friends on earth. Go leave a comment there. (We're shooting for 10,000 comments by months' end, yo, to get the full $200,000. No small feat, but it totally can be done. We raise $20 per comment on every post.)
My blog.
I have a gazillion mini post-its all over my house, covered in the scribblings of half-drafts, miniature inspirations, snack-sized ephipanies. And I can't stop sleeping.
It's hard (but not impossible) to blog in one's sleep, but you know, this sleep thing is so good. I forgot, entirely, what rest felt like. I am hoarding it like it's all the cats on earth and I'm sure the end is extremely nigh. It's not boding well for my blog-life.
But alas, I am a mommy blogger, or so they tell me, and my children insist of being smart and interesting, so I suppose I should say something about them. Contrary to the below posts, it isn't actually all gloom and doom around here. We have many more good times than uncomfortable ones, and I can't say we've had even a single moment of bad since I got home and we moved into our new home.
Well, there was that day two weeks ago when I was moving my son's dresser in with him, and I went backwards, and now I think I have permanent nerve damage in the pinky where he rammed it into the doorframe with the edge of the dresser with just a little too much gusto - but other than that, everything's been pretty damn a'ight.
My daughter has a friend at school who is not named Caliber and she talks about him almost obsessively, which you and I know means one thing, but she just knows it means she's happy to like someone, and she wrote him a note the other day. The very last line of it read, "I have a very nice home."
She is currently being charged with second-degree murder of a parent, by a minor in cuteness.
My middle son has a friend whom he walks home with every day, and a bit of a few love interests at school. He also has a full sized violin, which means he grew, like, .0016th of an inch in the past year, which makes him not the most tiniest person in his class. He is officially King of the World.
My oldest son actually speaks to me - almost every single day, in fact. For 14, that's astonishing.
Life is oddly humbling. You spend all these years proving you can handle anything, take whatever gets thrown at you, do everything and anything on your own, and then one day you wake up and the universe decides it high time you unlearn all of that bullshit, or die trying. And by you, I mean me.
We're constantly out of money, but even that doesn't feel scary or bad. We have what we need, and we don't need anything else. Going to a single income family is a huge adjustment without factoring in a cross-country move, but I've had help from a few close friends when I absolutely needed it, and that is forcing me to learn how to ask. For help. Because I can't do everything on my own.
We have couches, finally, and hot water, which you really can go a long long LONG time in Arizona in August before you even realize you don't have any. I think I am very close to having a dining room table, which is great because I bought white couches because I hate being either clean or sane. I hate my washer and dryer because it isn't the washer and dryer I had to leave behind in Texas, but it actually works fine. So does everything else.
So does everything else.
I wanted to hate it here, but we kind of like it here. My kids love their schools. We all love this little rental house. We're excited for winter to come, for being able to go outside and play any old time we want without a coat or an umbrella or a car. We are snuggled up together in less than half the space we left behind, and it actually feels good. We are learning each other again, in the quiet spaces the tv and the XBox used to fill. (I opted to not get cable, and to seriously limit game-time. I couldn't really explain why, but I didn't have to. This guy went & said it better than I could have, as he is wont to do.)
In a lot of ways, it feels like time has slowed for us. We go to bed early, really early, embarrassingly geritolly early, and we wake up ready. We wake up unafraid. We start our days looking forward, not back, and we end them together, on the white for not much longer couches, under the just-big-enough roof, in the almost but not quite too hot desert. We are rebuilding our lives and each other very quietly, and with careful consideration, and I think that, for now, it is just enough.


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One of the many strange things about the annual tech-a-palooza here in Las Vegas is how literally hundreds of consumers and camera-toting reporters will crowd around a company's booth to get an early glimpse of the latest tablet computer or video game. Yes, it's cool to see these products early, but all this craziness for a new phone? So it almost makes sense when crowds that are triple that size wait for a glimpse of Lady Gaga, or 50 Cent. After all, that's where the real star power is - and, after all, this is Vegas.
While Gaga's appearance at the Polaroid booth was, like last year's, quick and non-interactive (no Q & A with her fans at all), rapper 50 Cent proved to be a softer touch. After briefly announcing his new line of headphones (called "Sleek by 50 Cent"), 50 - or, Fiddy to those who follow his monstrously successful career - took plenty of time to step off the stage and talk to both fans and press members alike.
It was cool theatre .. a rap star taking his time to address questions both about his next album, his kids, and how his contributions to the Sleek designs go far beyond just putting his name and face on a product, because he's actually part owner of the company. I've been told that 50 makes much of his take home pay from endorsements - maybe even more than album sales. We talked about competition in the high-end audio market, and 50 insists that there's plenty of room for his headphones, Dr. Dre's headphones, Lady Gaga's headphones, and whatever you're using at the gym.
50 admitted that taking equity in a company is a risk, but that the rewards could pay off big, both in terms of pride, and "something extra to take care of the kids." He says it's about time high-end audio products made their way to the consumer, and, thanks partly to musicians like himself working with companies like Sleek and Hewlett Packard (which is putting Dre's "Beats" headphones into its computer lineup), the world is becoming a more musical place. More music fans, more sales for artists like 50 Cent.
As for Gaga? She kept fans waiting for two hours, before showing off a set of sunglasses (from Polaroid) that can take photos and display tiny video. Not too likely you'll see your friends rocking these anytime soon. But, really, after three days of tablets, TVs, and countless video games to dazzle us, there was something cool about someone who has sold millions of albums slowing things down to talk. For that, we credit Fiddy, and some of the other celebs here this week, who put the fans first, and the technology second.
Today, Scott goes after robots. His CES updates are on Twitter: @scottbudman


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Six Feet Under's Ben Foster in Talks to Play Lance Armstrong in Biopic
Jul 26, 2013 6:24 PM EDT
Ben Foster is in final talks to play disgraced athlete Lance Armstrong in a new biopic, Deadline reports. Foster, who recurred on Six Feet Under as Russell, is best known for his film roles in 3:10 to Yuma, The Messenger and X-Men: The Last Stand. He… Read more


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The Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investing group is the firm's investment platform dedicated to providing preferred equity and mezzanine capital to growth and middle market companies across the US, UK and Europe.
The Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investing group seeks to invest in growing businesses working closely with strong and driven management teams.
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We create custom solutions for each private investment. Our highly skilled team of investing professionals allows us to develop unique perspectives and craft creative solutions that provide the optimal investment structures for our portfolio companies.
Investing with Goldman Sachs. Our long history of financing allows us to focus our underwriting on the underlying financial assets and understanding our client's needs.
We invest capital with a long-term focus. This investing culture allows us to focus our time and effort on understanding our companies' long-term growth plans.
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We back talented management teams. We search for management teams with strong visions and expertise that are looking to continue to grow their companies.
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HAMPTON — Long before his audacious victories during the Civil War Robert E. Lee was sent to Fort Wool, a manmade island in the middle of Hampton Roads, to battle against the elements.
He wasn't entirely successful back in the 1830s according to Michael Cobb, curator of Hampton History Museum. Cobb has been giving tours of the three-acre rocky outcrop for more than 25 years.
The Fort Wool experience has been enhanced by a new outdoor "theater" at the fort funded by Dominion Virginia Power with benches built by New Horizons, a program that trains young people in the building trade.
Melanie Rapp Beale of Dominion said the recently built open air theater was funded with a grant of $2,500. "We asked them what would be helpful," she said. "They have picnic tables but this gives people a place to sit."
Cobb said the theater/classroom blends into the environment.
Fort Wool was off limits from 2003 to 2006 after Hurricane Isabel wrecked the pier where nearly 20,000 visitors a year would disembark. Today Miss Hampton II Harbor Cruises runs two trips a day to Fort Wool from downtown Hampton.
In a year in which Fort Monroe is making headlines as the Army prepares to leave in September, Fort Wool remains a ruined backwater, the sort of place Monroe's future custodians don't want the historic post to become.
The Army left Fort Wool in 1967 and the property reverted to the commonwealth of Virginia. The city of Hampton leases the fort from the state and runs it as an historic park.
Cobb remains committed to telling the Fort Wool story and believes a fort that fired more shots during the Civil War than Fort Monroe will see an upsurge in interest during the 150th anniversary of the conflict.
Cobb told a group of visitors Thursday that Fort Wool was built to deter the British after the War of 1812 in which the British attacked Hampton up the Hampton River and went up the Elizabeth River. "These waterways were avenues of invasion," he said.
Work began in 1819 when crews started dumping tons of granite boulders into the water. Four years later a 6-foot tall island rose from the water as part a building program that saw 41 forts completed. Cobb said the forts including Fort Monroe and Fort Wool were designed by Simon Bernard, a Frenchman who had served under Napoleon.
Cobb said the early engineers toiled in harsh conditions. "Can you imagine how hot it was? It was like a skillet. There was no grass out here — just stone."
The fort was dedicated in 1826. It was originally named Fort Calhoun after John C. Calhoun, who was the Secretary of War.
By 1834 Fort Monroe was completed but Fort Calhoun faced continuing problems because its foundations were settling. "This fort was never finished," said Cobb. The plan was a "massive fortification" with 232 cannons and more than 1,000 men, Cobb said.
"Many think it would have been more effective than Fort Monroe," he said.
Lee was given the task of overseeing the stabilization of the fort in 1834 as his first independent command. "In the early 1830s they found after making two tiers of casemates, that this artificial island of stone could not hold the weight of the fort," Cobb said.
More stone was brought in to stabilize the fort than was used to build the fort itself, Cobb said. Despite the stabilization effort, the fort never reached the size it was planned to be. "He laid a lot of the stone but I don't think it ever worked," Cobb said of Lee's project.
Cobb said Fort Wool also has a little-known association with presidents. President Andrew Jackson, broken hearted after the death of his wife and in frail health, came to Fort Wool in the late 1820s and the 1830s.
Cobb said Jackson made the fort his "White House." Ironically Calhoun had become the president's arch rival by this stage by threatening to pull South Carolina out of the union. Cobb said Jackson built a hut and would watch ships from on the island. He even made key policy decisions from the fort with cabinet advisers.
Later President John Tyler took sanctuary on the island after the death of his wife.
Abraham Lincoln was also at the fort — which was still only half built by the time of the Civil War. Soon after the battle of the ironclads the Monitor and the Merrimack near the fort on Hampton Roads, the federal government renamed the fort after John Ellis Wool, who was commanding Fort Monroe.
Fort Wool even has an association with the actor Sir Alec Guinness who was grounded in a minefield off the fort in World War II. The comedian Red Skelton also showed up at Fort Wool during the war to entertain troops.
"All great men touch Fort Wool at one time or another," said Cobb.
Much of the old fort was torn down when a concrete fort was built in the early 20th century, although Cobb shows visitors many of the older features that remain on the island.
Cobb said about 10,000 to 12,000 people a year visit Fort Wool. "Most museums today will not draw this many people on the Peninsula. We expect a surge of interest in the Civil War because it has a great Civil War history," he said.
"The island's often overlooked, but it's a great story."
Fort Wool
The military left Fort Wool in 1967. It's owned by the commonwealth of Virginia but leased by the city of Hampton and administered by the Parks and Recreation Department.
Getting there: The Miss Hampton II Harbor Cruises run twice a day to Fort Wool from the Maritime Center, 710 Settlers Landing Road, in downtown Hampton. Information: 757-722-9102
HAMPTON — Long before his audacious victories during the Civil War Robert E. Lee was sent to Fort Wool, a manmade island in the middle of Hampton Roads, to battle against the elements.


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Students who complete the major in Arts and Technology receive a thorough grounding in the mutually productive interaction of technology with the arts, with specific emphasis on the interplay of visual art, music, and narrative with the new modes of expression and communication that have emerged from the convergence of computing and media technologies. The program stresses not only the creation but also the potential applications and cultural implications of interactive media. A student majoring in Arts and Technology will be required to channel selected coursework according to individual needs and specialties. Particular attention should be given to the Prescribed Electives for the major, and close consultation with academic advisors is recommended. By selecting courses from a variety of the remaining elective headings, students are able to combine courses in technology and fine arts with course work in literary criticism and interpretation, creative writing and translation, and linguistics and languages.
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I. Core Curriculum Requirements1: 42 hours
- Communication (6 hours)
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (15 hours)
- Humanities and Fine Arts (6 hours)
- Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning (6 hours)
- Science (9 hours including at least one course with a substantial laboratory component)
1Curriculum Requirements can be fulfilled by other approved courses from accredited institutions of higher education. The courses listed in parentheses are recommended as the most efficient way to satisfy both Core Curriculum and Major Requirements at UT Dallas.
II. Major Requirements, Lower Division: 21 hours
- ARTS 1316 Drawing Foundations
- ARTS 2380 2D Design Foundations
- ATEC 2320 Introductory Topics in Arts and Technology
- ATEC 2382 Computer Imaging
- ATEC 2384 Basic Design Principles and Practices
- CS 1337 Computer Science I or CS 1335 Computer Science I for Non-majors1
- CS 2336 Computer Science II or CS 2335 Computer Science II for Non-Majors2
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2Students who are ATEC/CS double majors or who plan to minor in CS must enroll in CS 2336 Computer Science II
III. Major Requirements, Upper Division: 24 hours
- ARTS 3371 Black and White Photography
- ATEC 3317 Modeling and Texturing I
- ATEC 3320 Information Usability and Design
- or ATEC 3325 Introduction to Computer Mediated Communication
- ATEC 4340 Business and the Digital Arts
- ATEC 4V80 Capstone Project
- CS 3333 Data Structures
- HIST 3337 Technology and Western Civilization
- LIT 3334 Literature of Science
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- ATEC 3318 Concept Development
- ATEC 3319 Voice Over
- ATEC 3326 Emergent Media and Mass Communications
- ATEC 3327 Lighting and Composition I
- ATEC 3330 Digital Video Production I
- ATEC 3351 Computer Game Development
- ATEC 3352 Computer Game Design
- ATEC 3361 Internet Studio
- ATEC 3363 Basic Interaction Design
- ATEC 3365 Virtual Environments
- ATEC 4326 Emergant Media Production
- ATEC 4330 Digital Video Production II
- ATEC 4337 Computer Animation
- ATEC 4345 Motion Capture Animation
- ATEC 4346 Story-Telling for New Media
- ATEC 4347 Advanced Design
- ATEC 4348 Modeling and Texturing II
- ATEC 4349 Lighting and Composition II
- ATEC 4350 Game Production Lab
- ATEC 4357 Advanced Digital Arts
- ATEC 4367 Advanced Computer Game Development
- ATEC 4368 Advanced Computer Game Design
- ATEC 4370 Topics in Arts and Technology
- ATEC 4371 Topics in Animation
- ATEC 4373 Topics in Game Development
- ATEC 4374 Topics in Digital Design
- ATEC 4375 Topics in Sound Design
- MUSI 3389 Digital Music II
Students are required to take at least six hours of advanced electives outside their major field of study. These must be either upper-division classes or lower-division courses that have prerequisites.Free Electives (12 hours)
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Graduation ceremonies will soon begin, and we are pleased to feature our high school valedictorians and salutatorians for this year.
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In less than a month, more than 6,000 seniors will don caps and gowns and collect their diplomas at one of 12 commencement ceremonies being held for all comprehensive high schools, Health Careers High School, and the Reddix Center. Those wanting a keepsake can purchase a professionally-produced DVD of the complete graduation ceremony.
Two new voter-approved Northside ISD athletic facilities will be officially dedicated in June- the Northside Swim Center and the Northside Tennis Center. The Northside Swim Center dedication is at 10am, Friday, June 28. The Northside Tennis Center dedication is at 9am on Monday, June 10. The public is invited to both events.
Once again, Health Careers is the No. 1 high school in the San Antonio area, according to Children at Risk, a Houston-based nonprofit organization that researches and ranks public schools. Clark was No. 6 and O'Connor was No. 8 in the high school rankings. In the elementary category, Fernandez was ranked No. 3 and Scobee was No. 5.
Before they cross the stage at graduation next month and receive their high school diplomas, a select group of seniors recently gathered back at the place their education began- Esparza Elementary School in Northside ISD.
By Karen Freeman, School Board President. In Northside, Trustee elections are held every other year, and this year three of us were up for re-election. I am honored to have been re-elected and proud to be able to continue to serve the Northside community.
Northside ISD is holding a Transportation Job Fair to fill 200 positions for bus drivers. The job fair will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 18 at the Culebra Transportation Station, 7001 Culebra Road.
In less than a month, more than 6,000 seniors will don caps and gowns and collect their diplomas at one of 12 commencement ceremonies being held for all comprehensive high schools, Health Careers High School, and the Reddix Center.
More than 500 employees are being honored this week for over 11,000 years of service to Northside ISD at the annual Recognition & Retirement Celebration.
Thankfully the sun was shining brightly at the 17th Texas Solar Race Car Event held Saturday, May 4 at Gustafson Stadium. Two hundred and twenty five teams competed from 62 Northside elementary schools. After preliminary heats, quarterfinals, semifinals, and a final race, awards were handed out to the top 8 teams.
On Sunday, May 5, be prepared to visit a lemonade stand near you. More than 5,300 students from 56 NISD elementary schools will participate in "Lemonade Day" in Northside. They are enrolled in Northside ISD's Learning Tree After School Enrichment Program.
Northside ISD is holding an Auxiliary Job Fair to fill more than 270 positions for bus drivers, food service workers, food service manager trainees, custodians, and maintenance workers. The job fair will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 8 at Alamo Workforce Solutions, 1499 Hillcrest Drive.
Isabel Anaya, a 5th grade teacher at Kuentz Elementary School, was named a winner of the 2013 Trinity Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
Sixth, seventh and eighth grade choir students from 17 (of 18) middle schools will sing and dance together for the sixth annual "Together We Sing" performance, being held at 6 p.m., Saturday, May 4 at Paul Taylor Field House.
Show your college pride and support Northside ISD and San Antonio's college-going culture by wearing a college t-shirt this Friday, May 3. It's city-wide College T-Shirt Day and Northside students, employees and families are encouraged to participate.
Thousands of Northside ISD students join millions of Texas school children in the next round of standardized testing when the state-mandated STAAR testing continues April 23rd for elementary and middle school students.
Northside ISD recognized hundreds of campus volunteers and business partners who donate their time and energy to enrich the education of thousands of NISD students.
Now is the perfect time to empty medicine cabinets, bedside tables, and kitchen drawers of unwanted, unused, and expired prescription drugs as the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) holds its annual National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, April 27.
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By Dr. Brian T. Woods, Superintendent, Northside ISD- The Texas Legislature is currently engaged in an important debate about the requirements for graduation from high school and every Texas citizen, teacher, parent and student ought to pay attention.
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COLUMBIA - The request to rezone land at the corner of Providence and Broadway to make way for a new CVS Pharmacy was approved Thursday night by the city Planning and Zoning Commission.
The proposition had previously been discussed at the August 22 and September 5 meetings.
Mark Stevenson, owner of Real Estate Management, Inc. (REMI), had drafted the proposal, which made it through the commission after a 6-3 vote. The vote came just a day after the city's staff released an 82-page document saying it was "unsupportable".
The commission said the drive-through exit on Fourth Street would create issues with traffic. It also said the building didn't mesh well with the pedestrian-centric idea they had for the land, nor with the nearby Flat Branch Park.
During the public comment section, the opposition listed similar concerns, with an emphasis on protecting Flat Branch Park.
Representatives for CVS say they know the site is right across from Walgreen's, but that they like to position their buildings next to competitors.
REMI currently sits on the lot, along with Alley Cat Yoga. Stevenson wouldn't go on camera, but he said he wants to replace the lot with a CVS because of difficulty filling vacancies.
The commission said tonight that the proposed building would use half of the square-footage currently on the lot, would decrease parking space and would be a significant improvement to the sidewalk currently next to the lot.
The proposal passed with amendments to shorten light poles, add landscaping between the CVS and the park, and one to prevent left turns out of the Fourth Street exit.
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Hand-over-face gestures, a subset of emotional body language, are overlooked by automatic affect inference systems. We propose the use of hand-over-face gestures as a novel affect cue for automatic inference of cognitive mental states. Moreover, affect recognition systems rely on the existence of publicly available datasets, often the approach is only as good as the data. We present the collection and annotation methodology of a 3D multimodal corpus of 108 audio/video segments of natural complex mental states. The corpus includes spontaneous facial expressions and hand gestures labelled using crowd-sourcing and is publicly available.
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In Atlanta, passengers are doing the airport three-step: Shoes off, a quick X-ray, and then shoes back on.
This focus on the feet all began after Richard Reid tried to blow up a jet with a bomb hidden in his shoe in December 2001.
Some passengers complain that it makes them late, but frequent flyers say what bothers them most is the seeming inconsistency.
"If you go to Colorado Springs, man, they check you like you're the president," says traveler Ray Derstine. "And then when you go into Denver, they're not as strict. When you go to Philadelphia, it didn't seem to be as strict either."
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) says shoe removal is not mandatory at any airport. But its Web site advises: "Screeners may encourage you to remove them before entering the metal detector as many types of footwear will require additional screening even if the metal detector does not alarm."
Despite that, more and more passengers are wearing shoes that don't alarm. Shoeshine guys say they're seeing more sneakers and sandals than anything else. And some shoe makers are now marketing airport-friendly dress shoes, made without any metal in them at all.
Security experts say this new airport shuffle is likely here to stay, keeping passengers and TSA agents on their toes.
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