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Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced plans to open three new fulfillment centers in the state of Texas, creating more than 1,000 jobs. The sites, which will utilize advanced technology to help fulfill customer orders, will be located in the cities of Coppell, Haslet and Schertz.
"We look forward to putting more than 1,000 Texans to work at our new fulfillment centers in Schertz, Coppell and Haslet," said Mike Roth, Amazon's vice president of North American fulfillment. "We appreciate the state and local elected officials who have helped us make this exciting investment in the state of Texas."
Amazon fulfillment center jobs pay on average 30 percent more than traditional retail jobs and that doesn't even include the stock grants that full-time employees receive, which over the past five years have added an average of 9 percent to base pay annually. Amazon offers full-time benefits including healthcare.
"We're pleased Amazon is investing in Texas by bringing three fulfillment centers and more than 1,000 jobs to our state," said Texas Comptroller Susan Combs. "I thank Amazon for working with us—making it possible to bring new jobs and revenue to the state of Texas."
"This is the biggest economic development partnership announcement in the history of our city," said city of Haslet Mayor Bob Golden. "The jobs and potential tax base that this development will bring to our community is a major milestone in our city's growth."
The 1.2 million-square-foot site in Schertz and the 1 million-square-foot site in Coppell will handle larger items—anything from televisions to bbqs, for example. The 1.1 million-square-foot site in Haslet will handle smaller items like books, small electronics or DVDs, to name a few.
"Amazon, coming to Coppell, complements our strategy of building a quality business base that supports the community and the region," said Coppell Mayor Karen Hunt. "We are thrilled Amazon chose Coppell for a new fulfillment center. We recognize their large capital investment and new jobs brought to this area."
Recently, Amazon committed to hire more than a thousand veterans in the U.S. in the upcoming year to join the hundreds of veteran employees it has on staff currently. The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates there are more than 1.6 million veterans in the state of Texas.
"We are thrilled to formally and officially welcome Amazon to Schertz," said city of Schertz Mayor Michael Carpenter. "The investment Amazon is making in our community is significant, and it is a manifest expression by yet another highly successful and well-respected company that Schertz is a great place to do business."
USAA Real Estate Company is building the project in Schertz. Hillwood Development Company is building the project in the city of Haslet as part of AllianceTexas, a 17,000-acre, master-planned community, and is also constructing the project in the city of Coppell.
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Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. Kindle Paperwhite is the most-advanced e-reader ever constructed with 62% more pixels and 25% increased contrast, a patented built-in front light for reading in all lighting conditions, extra-long battery life, and a thin and light design. The new latest generation Kindle, the lightest and smallest Kindle, now features new, improved fonts and faster page turns. Kindle Fire HD features a stunning custom high-definition display, exclusive Dolby audio with dual stereo speakers, high-end, laptop-grade Wi-Fi with dual-band support, dual-antennas and MIMO for faster streaming and downloads, enough storage for HD content, and the latest generation processor and graphics engine—and it is available in two display sizes—7" and 8.9". The large-screen Kindle Fire HD is also available with 4G wireless, and comes with a groundbreaking $49.99 introductory 4G LTE data package. The all-new Kindle Fire features a 20% faster processor, 40% faster performance, twice the memory, and longer battery life.
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There are 2 comments on the El Paso Times story from Nov 14, 2008, titled Mundial: Regresa Pardo a M xico para enfrentar a Honduras. In it, El Paso Times reports that:Pável Pardo, mediocampista de México, festeja uno de sus goles frente a Honduras, en el partido por la eliminatoria mundialista de la Concacaf el domingo 20 de agosto del 2008.
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y Jamaica le gana por abultado margen a Jamaica...
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Hey spring is here and you have plenty of opportunity to go out and rob banks and murder the bank tellers and then burn the banks down with them in it and use the money for a trip to Hong Kong homies. I spent over 20 years with the Latin Kings, MS-13 and 18th Street Mexicali until I got into an argument over money but your MS-13 and Latin King gangs in your area are quite good and they treat me good homies. The only thing that I liked about Maryland and D.C. is the prisons because I have nothin to lose and I am well experienced in stealing from elderly ladies homes and cutting them with a knife and I got away with a lot of those crimes but prison is my home and prison is beautiful and sweet. That is why I want to move to your area homie. Homies around the Langley Park apartments do shootings and arsons and the guns and packs of matches were stolen from stores and schools on the streets of Washington, D.C. and the Mexicans are poopoo and the woods of Mexico are quite poopoo. I want to start a home and business in your area homie and we can do good. Hey, I am 34 and I have been in and out of prison since I was 15 for stealing money from places and I want to move to your area so I can be with a gang where I can be safe from the pigs in uniform or coppers that try to rig my ass.
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In my spare time I like to chill out and watch a movie or two, do some reading or when I really push the boat out I may do a spot painting or drawing (not as much I should though), in my youth I actually went art school and completed a foundation course but didn't take the subject any further (cue the faint and mournful sound of distant violins). I have been climbing since June 2005, I also do a bit hill walking every now and again. I like to indulge in a bit fitness training and am a member of a local gym. I was studying with Open University but have taken a break from that this year as I have wanted to take advantage of my circumstances and do some traveling, including a recent trek to Everest base camp.
I also try silly stuff like trying to build my own PC and dabbling in a spot Excel programming - guess I've got to much spare time on my hands. The PC actually worked (after several attempts), which was a pleasant surprise.
The books I tend to read are sci-fi fantasy stuff or science type things, although I'm currently reading bio' about Mallory & Irvine's ill fated 1924 expedition to Everest. Scared myself by reading Felicity Lawrence's Not On The Label detailing what really goes into the food that ends up on your plate. After the first chapter considered going veggie, but alas chapter two was entitled salads�
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Jollof Rice & Beans
Many versions of Jollof rice exist throughout West Africa, where the rice-and-bean combination makes a satisfying and nourishing meal. Add more or less cayenne according to your preference.
Serves 4
What You Need:
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1 yellow onion, chopped
- 1 green bell pepper, chopped
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne, or to taste
- 1 cup long-grain rice
- 1 14.5-ounce can diced tomatoes, drained
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 2 cups vegetable broth
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 3 cups cooked or 2 15.5-ounce cans red kidney beans, drained and rinsed
- 2 tablespoons fresh parsley, minced
What You Do:
- Heat the oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add the onion, bell pepper, and garlic. Cover and cook until tender, about 7 minutes.
- Uncover pot and stir in cayenne. Add the rice and stir for 1 minute. Stir in the tomatoes, tomato paste, and vegetable broth. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to low. Cover and cook until the rice is tender and the liquid is absorbed, 20 to 30 minutes.
- Remove from heat, stir in the beans, cover, and set aside for 5 minutes. Taste to adjust seasonings. Garnish with fresh parsley and serve.
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Smelly surprises lurk beneath Missouri River
OMAHA, Neb. -- When the Missouri River's floodwaters recede this fall, piles of debris, silt and some smelly surprises will be revealed.
It's hard to say exactly what's hiding under the waters, but experts said it is certain that this year's epic flood will leave behind a mammoth mess once the water returns to within the Missouri River's banks.
"It's a very unpleasant chore for people trying to clean this up," said John Remus, who oversees hydrologic engineering for the Army Corps of Engineers' Omaha office.
The corps has been releasing massive amounts of water from the dams along the Missouri River all summer to deal with above-average Rocky Mountain snowpack and unexpectedly heavy spring rains. The huge amount of water flowing down the river caused flooding all along the Missouri that began in June and will continue into fall.
Many of the hundreds of thousands of acres the river flooded in Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri this year were farmland, so the mess is certain to include agricultural debris like crops, fuel tanks, branches and miscellaneous equipment.
"We know that there's going to be damage up and down the river, but the degree of damage is likely to vary considerably," said David Haldeman, a division administrator with the Nebraska Department of Environmental Equality.
Haldeman said the fact that most people had a couple weeks' notice before the floodwaters arrived in the spring might reduce the number of propane tanks, gas cans and other floating debris that got swept away.
Carcasses of small animals swept up by the flood and fish left behind when the waters recede will add to the mess.
"A very bad odor gets started very quickly," said Kathy Lee, a spokeswoman for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
At the height of the flooding, there were reports of camping trailers, decks, 60-foot-tall trees and other large debris being swept away by the river. And the flood swept through a number of cabin developments north of Omaha and some rural houses, so almost anything found in a home could wind up in the flood.
"You can find about anything under the sun after flooding," Lee said.
There will be piles of sand left behind because the rushing water picked up deposits from the river bed and carried it onto the floodplain. And anywhere where the river broke through a levee, the amount of sand will be increased because many rural levees are made of sand.
"The main thing you're going to find under the water is sand," Remus said.
Farmers will have to scrape the sand away to reach the topsoil before they consider planting on the land again. And Remus said in some cases, it may not make economic sense to do that, depending on the thickness of the sand layer and the quality of the farmland.
"I think most of it will be able to be rehabbed," Remus said.
The corps has begun gradually reducing the amount of water being released from the dams, but it's a long process. So people who live near the river in Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri will have to wait until sometime in September or October for the floodwaters to return to the riverbanks.
Officials predict the river will fall below flood stage in the Sioux City, Iowa, area in late August. Near Omaha, the river will fall below flood stage by mid-September, and the flooding near Rulo, Neb. and Hamburg, Iowa, should end by late September.
Flooding along the river in Missouri may not end until around mid-October because several levees failed in the northwest corner of the state and allowed a large amount of floodwater to accumulate.
The length of this year's flood will make the cleanup harder.
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Autonomous flying robots influenced by nature
Researchers at Stanford University have been mimicking the way cockroaches and geckos scale walls in their creations
Robotics researchers are increasingly turning to the animal kingdom for inspiration.
In a darkened room, a sinister buzzing sound begins, and flying mini-robots suddenly emerge from hiding. More and more of them appear, swarming across the room to reach their pre-assigned destinations. As the lights come up, they hover expectantly above their targets on tiny four-way rotors, ready to begin the mission.
...and that's when the robotic creatures start to play the theme to James Bond. Their precise control systems allow them to bob up and down playing the cymbal, keyboard, drums and maracas. One even carries out an autonomous fly-past of an electric guitar.
When Vijay Kumar of the University of Pennsylvania unveiled this video of his lab's flying quadrotors during a TED talk in February 2012, it gained a rapturous response. The robots' agility and apparent ability to cooperate was impressive indeed. But the tongue-in-cheek approach of the video, created by Kumar's team members Daniel Mellinger and Alex Kushleyev, was only too clear to the TED audience. The slick lighting and melodramatic choice of music played deftly on the way in which research into bug-size robots tends to be treated in the media - with coverage that is usually more sensational than real.
'Scary spy insects for the army' is how Michel Maharbiz, associate professor in the department of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California Berkeley, characterises many media stories.
Even a quick search online reveals headlines that confirm Maharbiz's view'US Military AdmitsSpy Drones As Small As Bugs' 'Cyborg Army Moth Spy'... The sense of dismay in the scientific community is palpableby focusing on the fantastical, the media risks losing sight of an amazing story of success in learning to copy and harness nature's structures and skills for a huge range of tasks.
Kumar's quadrotors, for example, mimic the swarming behaviour of insects. His team's robots are only 20cm across, which increases their agility. But the really clever part is making them move purposefully in unison without hitting one another or crashing. To develop the skill of teamwork, Kumar looks to Aphaenogaster ants. These tiny creatures sense the behaviour of their neighbours, and without explicit communication, coordinate their work of carrying huge chunks of fig back to the nest.
The James Bond performance shows off this behaviour. Mellinger and Kushleyev had timed each quadrotor to be in a certain place at a certain time to make their rhythmic music - and the robots themselves worked out how to achieve this without hitting either an obstacle or a fellow robot. While flying in formation, the robots can also work out how to squeeze through restricted spaces without any centralised coordinator, as well as working together to build simple structures. You could imagine these ant-inspired skills might see quadrotor teams one day checking an earthquake-damaged building, or even working to lift rubble off injured people.
And it's not just ants. Scientists are also looking to bees, cockroaches and dragonflies for their hive intelligence, their resilience and their power of flapping flight. What's even more intriguing is that a parallel strand of research is showing how insects themselves can be harnessed to function under remote control.
Biomimetics - the copying of nature's solutions to technical conundrums - has incredible potential. If animals can supply an optimum answer to a problem such as locomotion or sensing, there's no particular benefit in trying to reinvent the feeler, the foot or the flipper for your robotic creature.
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Indeed, fins and flippers were one of biomimetics' early success stories. Robotuna, developed at MIT, was a prototype swimming robot that replicated the way a real fish moves through the water - with a view to making underwater vehicles more efficient. The articulated robotic tuna did indeed use less energy to swim than other robotic submarines, as well as being more manoeuvrable.
Robolobster was built at Northeastern University, and was designed to be able to negotiate the terrain at the bottom of the sea by flexing its shape-memory-alloy muscles and respond autonomously to its environment. FLAPS, developed at Heriot-Watt University, was a prototype rippling, pneumatic fin that mimicked the propulsion system of a seahorse.
Penguins have inspired more recent developments for efficient autonomous swimming. German company Festo has employed new studies on fish fins which show that, unexpectedly, they respond to a lateral force by bulging out instead of bending away. By recreating this high-efficiency effect in three dimensions, Festo has created a torso that can move in any direction, allowing the Aquapenguin to manoeuvre in cramped areas and even swim backwards, just like the real creatures.
On land, biomimetic robots have enjoyed a field-day too. Boston Dynamics, a spin-off engineering company from MIT, unveiled BigDog, a powerful-looking creature with legs articulated like those of an animal. BigDog can travel 12 miles without refuelling, walk across rubble, snow and in water, and carry up to 150kg.
At Stanford University, attention has focused on mimicking geckos' ability to scale walls. Stickybot III is the latest iteration of their robotic creatures. Its feet pads are made of rubber, which is cast in a mould to produce an array of microscopic wedges that adhere to a surface via the Van der Waals force. Unlike sticking and unsticking a piece of sellotape, researcher Mark Cutkosky describes the sensation as "being able to hook and unhook yourself from the surface".
Cutkosky and his team were creators of an early robotic cockroach, developed with the idea that insect-like creatures could overcome the problems encountered by wheeled robots - for example on missions to Mars. Sprawl, developed with Robert Full at Berkeley, had six legs propelled by tiny compressed-air pistons.
Search and rescue
Full's group made the recent discovery that cockroaches, lizards and geckos all share an ability to rapidly invert themselves out of sight - by swinging acrobatically under any handy ledge. Colleagues in the Biomimetic Millisystems Lab at Berkeley experimented with their robotic roach called DASH - the Dynamic Autonomous Sprawled Hexapod - and found that with a little tweaking, it could do the same. A possible application of this trick might be a highly mobile search-and-rescue bot particularly adept at negotiating urban disaster zones.
A different bug is on the crawl at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Robert Wood and colleagues have created a 12-legged, segmented robot based on a centipede. Unlike the rigid bodies of roach-based robots, this creature has flexible connections between its segments, and ripples along. The researchers hope to study the way flexibility and body undulations help the creature to move.
If you look overhead, you find one of the areas of greatest development in robotic biomimicry. At Delft University, researchers have been working on Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) inspired by dragonflies. Their DelFly prototype has now gone through three iterations, shrinking from 50cm to 28cm to only 10cm (DelFly Micro, weighing only 3g). At each size the team has shown the bug can still carry an onboard camera and fly, untethered, in an indoor environment. Researchers would like to reduce the scale still further"In the future we hope to develop a MAV that is the size of a fruit fly," says Bart Remes from the team, although he admits this is decades away.
And back at Harvard, the Mobee project is taking flight. Bees are unparalleled in their ability to fly and hover while carrying a heavy load. Researchers in Robert Wood's Microrobotics Lab, who saw their first successful flight of a life-sized robotic fly in 2007, have now been learning from bees. Compact power-sources are one of their research interests. Another is a sensing system, mimicking the bee's eyes and antennae. Finally, they are learning from the bee's skills at coordinating activity with its fellows in order to bring home the nectar.
One breakthrough the team has made is in replication. By learning how to manufacture the Mobees using a sandwich of materials that are cut out using a laser and then folded into shape, origami-like, they could conceivably create the swarm of creatures beloved of headline writers - but which actually brings search-and-rescue or monitoring applications within budget.
Scientists are making huge strides in this increasingly tiny science - but some issues remain with robotic creatures, particularly when they take to the skies. To power a flying robotic creature is no mean feat for more than a few minutes, and so some researchers have approached the problem by turning it completely on its head.
Cyborg insects
In the 1990s, researchers began to wonder whether it might be possible to learn to control real-life insects, thus harnessing directly their powers of locomotion or flight. Might it be possible to control the signals received by an insect's muscles or nervous system, and thus create a remote-controlled biological robot?
At Cornell University, Amit Lal and Alper Bozkurt worked on the idea at a very fundamental level. They demonstrated that microelectronics-based systems could be implanted into moths during their metamorphosis, integrating the technology directly with the creature. This was the first step towards the goal of creating 'cyborg insects' - perhaps a rather sensational name, but one that seems to have stuck.
Under a programme organised by Lal for the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), researchers at several universities investigated hybrid insects.
Michel Maharbiz, by then at University of California, Berkeley, worked with flying beetles, using their natural response to light and dark to encourage them to fly or stop flying. By stimulating a beetle using an electrode implanted into the optic lobe, the team could make it flap its wings and assume a flying posture. To direct the beetle, a pulse to the flight muscles on left or right would make it turn.
Bozkurt continued his work with moths, but is now exploring terrestrial insects with his own team at North Carolina State University. He can control a cockroach's direction by stimulating the creature's antennae, as if it had brushed an obstacle. After working out a pulse strength that didn't damage the roach, he found that the greater the electrical pulse delivered from a tiny backpack, the more sharply the creature turned. "We recently demonstrated cockroach navigation with an aim of rescuing victims after natural disasters in the future," Bozkurt explains. The work is now funded by the National Science Foundation.
And a project with moths at MIT also reported success earlier this year, with researchers showing they could control the creature's turning to the left and right using a wireless signal. The moth had a flexible neural probe attached to its central nervous system, with five electrodes to stimulate different bundles of nerves. Although the customary headlines about cybersnooping prevailed, the team actually saw the research as promising for neurobiologists seeking to stimulate human nerve bundles and rehabilitate people who had lost mobility after a stroke.
Perhaps biomimetic creatures and adapted insects will one day save lives and offer solutions to scientists wanting to monitor situations on land, at sea and in the air. The possibilities seem endless, and worth looking beyond the hype to find.
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The unions withdrew their strike notices and KiwiRail lifted its lockout notice which would have shut down sailings from December 1 to 8 following proposed cuts to staff service pay which may have seen some long-term workers lose about 20 per cent of their income.
Picton Business Group chairman Graham Gosling said the end of the lockout threat was good news for Picton businesses which could have suffered a loss of income from the disruption.
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Confirming rumors from earlier this week, the mobile payments company Isis said today that it will finally launch on October 22.
Jaymee Johnson, the company's head of marketing, sent us the following statement this morning: "Isis will be launching in Austin and Salt Lake City on Oct. 22. By year end, as many as 20 Isis Ready handsets are expected to be in market. We look forward to sharing more details on Oct. 22."
Isis, a joint project between AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, was announced in November 2010, but it has been criticized for taking so long to launch. The company has been testing its near-field communications (NFC) mobile payment service in Salt Lake City and Austin throughout 2012, but it refused to lock down a specific launch date until today.
During Mobile World Congress this past February, Isis chief executive Michael Abbott told me he didn't see any mobile wallet war brewing (competitors from Google and PayPal have already launched). He also said the company wanted to take its time and get mobile payments right the first time, since it's building a network that needs to last for than a decade.
"We're solving for a four-sided market," he said at the time, pointing to the fact that Isis needs to make sure consumers, merchants, payment companies, and its parent carriers are happy with its product.
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The Devil Makes Three has been around for almost a decade now, and they've developed a grassroots following with their brand of down-home Americana. Stomp and Smash is their second live release, and it draws from all three of the band's studio albums yet throws in a pair of new songs. This is one of those occasional live albums that actually succeeds in capturing the energy of a band in concert. Recorded over two nights in front of a rowdy crowd in Petaluma, California, Stomp and Smash finds the Devil Makes Three clearly enjoying themselves and playing with intensity. The recording by Kark Derfler is crisp and clear, putting Pete Bernhard's vocals out front but letting all the instruments be heard.
There's a bluesy, boozy quality to the Devil Makes Three's music that pretty much guarantees a strong audience response, and that comes through on Stomp and Smash through a low buzz of crowd noise that runs through the whole disc. For many bands, the cheering, hoots, and hollers might be a distraction on a live album, but in this case it fits perfectly. Since this is my first experience with the band, I can't comment on the tracklisting in terms of what didn't make the cut, but what is here is very good. "For Good Again" is a strong opener, as Bernhard tells the tale of how he ended up in the band. Lyrics about the drinking and drugs of small town life could come from any alt-country or Springsteen-influenced indie-rock band, but Bernhard puts his own distinctive stamp on the tale. You don't expect a country stomper to include lines like "Our drummer couldn't figure out whether he was straight or he was gay," and "You'll never understand the things my friend Aaron put us through / He had this Powerpoint presentation about this girl he wanted to do." Bernhard's willingness to be unconventional with his lyrics also pays off in the new song "They Call That Religion," which directly takes on corrupt religious figures including Ted Haggard and L. Ron Hubbard. The chorus, "They call that religion / But you know he's going to Hell when he dies" is both blunt and hilarious.
While the trio sometimes bucks string band conventions, one they embrace is the lack of a drummer. Much of their material is plenty percussive, with bassist Lucia Turino on the downbeats and Bernhard's guitar on the upbeats. This leaves Cooper McBean's banjo or guitar to handle a song's main riffs and Bernhard's vocals to fill in the melody, a task which both men handle adeptly. Fiddler Andy Lentz is also on hand for much of Stomp and Smash, and he adds a lot of color to the jig-like "Black Irish" and the jaunty "Do Wrong Right". His solos on slower tracks like fan favorite "Old Number Seven" and the creepy "Graveyard" made me wonder if the band shouldn't consider hiring him as a full-time member. Since Lentz already has gigs in at least three other bands, that probably won't be happening.
A lot of bands say things like, "Our studio albums don't really do us justice. You need to come see us live to get it." At this point it's probably safe to consider it a cliché. And yes, Bernhard is guilty of this, too, telling No Depression, "The idea came together when we played a show in Nashville awhile back and a friend told us that our records didn't capture the energy of the live show, and we all agreed." I haven't heard the band's studio albums, but Stomp and Smash definitely captures a compelling energy that a lot of live recordings are missing. It makes me want to go see them play live, which, I think, is exactly the point.
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HireRight, a leader in on-demand employment screening, drug and health screening, and employment eligibility verification programs, today announced a new integration with PeopleAdmin, the leading provider of on-demand talent management solutions for higher education and government, designed to streamline the recruitment and employment background check process.
The integration enables customers to order, track and manage their employment screening processes directly from PeopleAdmin SelectSuiteTM. This increases efficiency, while improving the time-to-hire. In addition, it enables universities and other educational institutions to more effectively and efficiently screen multiple candidate types, such as staff, faculty and contractors.
"Our driving mission is to help our customers strengthen and simplify their talent management processes," said Tod Klubnik, vice president of sales and business development, PeopleAdmin. "HireRight has a deep focus in higher education with expertise in background checks for groups ranging from staff and international faculty to contractors. We are thrilled to work with them to offer our customers a seamlessly integrated solution for improving employment screening, a critical step in the recruitment and on-boarding processes to ensure the highest quality hires."
The integration takes advantage of PeopleAdmin's recently launched PartnerConnect capability, which provides rapid integration of select partner solutions at no cost to the customer, enabling them to develop a complete, streamlined talent management solution. This integration reduces duplicate data entry and human error and provides a single entry point for every aspect of the hiring process, including background check status. HireRight's solution includes the following features:
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"PeopleAdmin has pioneered talent management solutions designed specifically for the needs of higher education organizations, and we are proud to partner with them to integrate our advanced employment screening solutions," said Marc Maloy, senior vice president of worldwide sales, HireRight. "Institutions need to attract and hire the most qualified staff and faculty, and this integrated solution helps improve their hiring process while also ensuring they are taking precautions to create a safer campus for their students and employees."
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Founded in 2000, PeopleAdmin leads the way in providing web-based talent management solutions for higher education and government. PeopleAdmin solutions enable clients to automate and streamline the hiring process, improve candidate communication, efficiently manage position descriptions and employee performance, develop compliant and defensible audit trails to defend talent management decisions, and utilize industry-leading reporting and metrics. Our offering includes applicant tracking, position management, onboarding and performance management. Delivered through a software-as-a-service model, PeopleAdmin solutions are rapidly deployed, easy-to-use and supported through a world-class customer service organization. More than 700 leading organizations throughout North America use PeopleAdmin solutions to gain talent management efficiencies while minimizing risk.
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Upland Population: 147Total Males: 64
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