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About Pinnacle.

We invest in great people. That's why clients trust us with their real estate investments!
At Pinnacle, we consider our employees our most valuable asset. In fact, our number one key business objective is to attract and retain the best talent in the industry! At Pinnacle, the key to our continued success and competitive advantage is our people.

We offer a total compensation and benefits package to help with your needs today and build for your future tomorrow. We recognize that each employee is an individual with individual needs, lifestyles, and interests. Our benefits package was created with the flexibility to support employees who are at different places in their lives and careers.

Pinnacle values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity in employment. We offer a safe, healthy work environment for employees through a commitment to maintaining a drug-free workplace.
Pinnacle has ongoing employment opportunities at our headquarters in Seattle, our more than 40 branch office locations nationally and our many managed communities throughout the country.

Pinnacle is the national leader in third-party fee management of investment real estate encompassing multi-family, commercial space, affordable housing and military housing. Pinnacle is built on four basic principles:

  • Quality people
  • Strong customer service
  • Solid market knowledge
  • Superior systems and support capabilities

    At Pinnacle, success is about more than having a healthy bottom line. Guided by our principles and values, we are committed to making Pinnacle an amazing and unique place to work for each member of our team.

    About the job..

    As an Assistant Business Manager at Pinnacle you are an important piece of the onsite management team. You help guide the ship, so to speak, of a Pinnacle community under the direction of the Business Manager. The Assistant Business Manager is a business leader who focuses on resident customer service and assists in managing the operations, leasing activity, renewals, collections, financial reporting, supplies, and communications of a multi-million dollar apartment community. This position requires unmatched customer service and individuals who thrive in a customer-centric, fast-paced environment. Be ready to be busy!

    Essential Responsibilities:

  • Address the concerns of current and prospective residents in a friendly and professional manner.
  • Helps set the standard on how Leasing Agents engage prospective and current residents. Tours and leases apartments as necessary.
  • Helps with training staff as necessary and models effective sales techniques on a daily basis.
  • Leads rent collection efforts, specifically with delinquent residents. This may involve lease termination and legal action if necessary.
  • Assist in managing the propertys budget by making sound fiscal decisions to increase the net operating income of the community.
  • Inspecting apartments during move-in and move outs, walking apartments and the community as needed.
  • Fill the role of acting Business Manager when the Business Manager is absent.

    Personal Competencies:

  • Business leader
  • High energy
  • Customer focused
  • Articulate
  • Detail oriented/organized
  • Strong Communicator both oral and written
  • High degree of flexibility and tolerance for change

    Qualifications:

  • Minimum of high school diploma, Bachelors degree preferred.
  • 1 to 2 years previous minimum related work experience, property management exp a plus!
  • General office, bookkeeping and sales skills
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to deal effectively with persons from diverse social, economic and ethnic backgrounds.
  • Extremely computer literate, including Microsoft office Suite
  • Previous experience in a supervisory role is helpful.

    Pinnacle has grown to become America's largest apartment manager through many different successes. Yet, in today's ultra-competitive market, each success must fuel the next and speed is essential in the ongoing race to lead the industry.

    If you are ready to work hard and be empowered and encouraged to innovate, contribute ideas and discover solutions to provide current and potential residents with unparalleled, world class customer service please complete click Apply Online.

  • Source: http://jobs.apartmentcareers.com/jobs/4855348/assistant-business-manager

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    UK: Boy, 11, flies to Rome without passport

    (AP) ? The 11-year-old boy didn't have a passport, didn't have a ticket, didn't have a boarding pass, and somehow managed to get all the way from England to Italy.

    Officials at Manchester airport and at the airline Jet2.com said Wednesday they were investigating how the boy got aboard the flight to Rome and wasn't detected until the cabin crew identified him during the flight.

    "This is an unusual and serious breach and we are keen to find out what has gone on," the government's transport secretary, Justine Greening, said.

    The unusual incident took place Tuesday amid heightened security concerns during the run-up to the Olympics.

    The Manchester Evening News quoted Sarah Swayne, a passenger on the return flight, as saying the boy didn't seem to be fazed by the fuss he had caused.

    "He just sat there chatting away about how he'd been trying to run away from home," Swayne was quoted as saying. "He seemed quite innocent, really, and I don't think it had sunk in how serious the situation was."

    An undisclosed number of security staff and airline employees have been suspended following the incident.

    "It's not technically a breach of security," airport spokesman Russell Craig told the BBC. "The boy posed no threat to the aircraft. He went through a security process."

    Craig said CCTV images showed that the boy mingled with families moving through the airport on a busy day.

    In a statement, the airport described the incident as "extremely serious."

    "It is clear that documentation has not been checked correctly at security and the boarding gate," the statement said.

    Jet2.com said the boy was returned to Manchester and reunited with his family.

    Associated Press

    Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/cae69a7523db45408eeb2b3a98c0c9c5/Article_2012-07-25-Britain-Ticketless%20to%20Rome/id-4e60e287de0c4e75a2bb57700a9794cf

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    MLS All-Stars set for Chelsea

    By DAN GELSTON

    AP Sports Writer

    Associated Press Sports

    updated 7:56 p.m. ET July 24, 2012

    PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Landon Donovan played in MLS All-Star games when they resembled so many of the other ones played in the major sports.

    Little at stake, little incentive.

    That all changed once Major League Soccer revamped the format and started playing international teams. The best teams from abroad were coming to the U.S. to show they were the best in the world. So far, the MLS, where the quality of play is usually touted as inferior to the quality of the level overseas, has a 6-2-1 edge in the All-Star game.

    There's no doubt the players get pumped playing against champions and top-level teams as part of the summer exhibition.

    "They're more enjoyable for us," Donovan said. "In the past, when it was an East-West format, you didn't take it all too seriously. The game was, in some ways fun, but it was a little bit false. It isn't exciting for us as playing a real game."

    Chelsea of the English Premier League is back for this season's MLS All-Star game Wednesday night at PPL Park. The stadium is home to the Philadelphia Union of MLS, and is located in nearby Chester, along the Delaware River.

    This is the seventh time an English Premier League team will play the MLS All-Stars. The MLS defeated Chelsea 1-0 in the 2006 game. Dwayne De Rosario won the game with the lone goal. He's back again, along with All-Star teammates Donovan and Thierry Henry. Last year's game was held at Red Bull Arena in New Jersey and featured Manchester United.

    Chelsea, which has won the English top flight on four occasions, is in the midst of a four-game American tour that featured the first soccer match at the new Yankee Stadium against Paris Saint-Germain, and a final exhibition vs. AC Milan in Miami.

    Chelsea is using these games as a tuneup for its regular season. Playing well and earning playing time are much important than the result. But sure, the Blues want to come out winners. They understand the MLS has raised its magnitude of players and competition level over its nearly 20-year existence.

    "I think it's evolved a great deal," Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard said. "I think David Beckham has been a huge influence on the game in terms of taking it worldwide and bringing a lot of attention. You can feel the level of the quality going up."

    It's certainly a hit in Philadelphia, as the Union traditionally attract large crowds. On Wednesday, there should be plenty of Union fans in the stadium - they have their own Trekkies-type of fan cult called the "Sons of Ben" - but also plenty of people pulling for Chelsea, which has taken the U.S. by storm.

    Chelsea helped attract a crowd of 38,202 Sunday to Yankee Stadium. An overwhelming blue-clad, pro-Chelsea base made Yankee Stadium feel a bit like home for the Blues, with six sections of loud supporters behind the first-base dugout.

    "It's very good to see how this club has grown globally and has a great following," manager Roberto Di Matteo said. "The Yankee Stadium crowd, it was like a home game for us."

    The MLS All-Stars certainly don't have the chemistry - developed over 72 hours or so - that a championship team like Chelsea can boast. Plus, D.C. United coach Ben Olsen has to find a way to get the stars back on track after a 4-0 loss last season.

    "After talking to every coach and every agent, that almost becomes the toughest part of the deal, trying to make everybody happy," Olsen said. "But I think we've found a pretty good balance. It's worked out where we can get everybody a significant amount of playing time.

    "It's not an easy process."

    Henry, who plays for the New York Red Bulls, knows all about the premier competition in England. He is Arsenal's career leading scorer and would never rule out a return to his former team.

    "Eventually, I'd like to go back to Arsenal," Henry said. "I don't know how. I'm sure that depends on me. I just want to finish my career. I would go back to England, that's for sure, with Arsenal. What? I still don't know what. Coaching does interest me, but I really don't think about it right now."

    All he's thinking about is spoiling Chelsea's visit with a big MLS victory.

    ----

    Dan Gelston can be followed at http://twitter.com/apgelston

    ? 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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    Four Steps to Generate Leads Online with Your Business Blog ...

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    Most experienced marketers agree that a business blog is an extremely useful tool to expand online reach, build brand loyalty, and generate leads online. According to Social Media Examiner?s 2012 Social Media Marketing Industry Report, 79% of marketers with over three years of experience use blogging as a social media marketing tool. Whether you?re just getting started or need to revamp your approach, here is a proven four-step formula your business can use to reap the many benefits of blogging:

    (DEFINE+LISTEN+ADDRESS) X (COMMUNICATE) = BLOGGING SUCCESS

    Clearly define your target audience, listen to them, and then communicate solutions that address their pain points in a simple, concise and relevant way.

    DEFINE - Develop Buyer Personas

    Create a demographic profile for each buyer persona. Flesh out personal details, such as gender, age, income and education level, marital status, and children. Speculate on any hobbies, pursuits, and personal interests to give you personas a three-dimensional feel.

    Expand on employment information. Create data points for industry, department, specific role within the organization, and level of seniority.

    Finally, speculate on each persona?s information acquisition and consumption habits. Do they prefer nline search, social networks, books, newspapers, or trade papers? If yes, which ones? Try to be as specific as possible- the more detailed your buyer persona, the more effective your blog.

    LISTEN - Understand Needs and Motivations

    If your business is selling a product or service (which for your sake I hope is the case), take a moment to think about the needs and motivations of your target market. What features and benefits are your buyers looking for? Make sure to think about this for each of your buyer personas. Moreover, what type of user experience (UX) is your buyer expecting to have when purchasing your product or service?

    On the flip side, you need to anticipate objections. What issues or concerns would keep each buyer persona from purchasing your product or service?

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    Now for the nitty-gritty: how will your product or service resolve a problem, address a pain point, and/or ultimately provide value to your target audience? At his/her core, what does each buyer persona really value? What will get them excited to work with your brand? What are they trying to accomplish with this relationship?

    Once you have a clear grasp of such fundamental buyer motivations, you can communicate how your product or service can solve their problems and add value to their lives. Blogging gives your brand a direct and relatively intimate platform to communicate with your target audience on a consistent basis.

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    Source: http://socialmediatoday.com/chris-horton/637396/four-steps-generate-leads-online-your-business-blog

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    Go Beyond Technology To Build An Effective Security Practice ...

    It?s common knowledge that the security landscape has shifted over the past few years and the once-strong perimeters that CISOs relied upon have become stretched, fragmented, and overrun by increasingly mature attackers. There are many reasons for this change?? from the increasing value of intellectual property and ideas to the business? desire for agility and flexibility??? but it comes down to the fact that the technology controls that CISOs are so used to deploying simply can?t stay ahead of the threats.

    Increasingly, Security & Risk (S&R) Professionals are being asked not only to protect the organization from hackers but also to protect their organization?s brand and competitive advantage whilst enabling efficient and agile business processes. In this environment, we need to realize that technology is just one piece of an increasingly complex puzzle, and it?s a puzzle we have to solve without ever saying ?no.??As one security expert Forrester interviewed put it, the right question is ?How do I make sure this boat doesn?t crash??; it isn?t, ?How do I make sure this boat doesn?t even reach the ocean??

    It?s essential that CISOs shift their focus beyond technology to the wider spectrum of responsibilities that comprise an effective security practice.?By redefining the situation and evolving their role, S&R professionals can:

    • Align information security priorities with business objectives. This will enable controls and risk management to be tuned to deliver maximum benefit to the organisation whilst having minimal negative impact on performance. For example, if your company plans to derive 15% of its growth from expansion into Indonesia, Malaysia, and Peru over the next three years, then the CISO should focus on enabling remote connectivity and protecting the intellectual property that will be at increased risk.
    • Gain more traction with the business.?By defining a platform for communication and an understanding of risk appetite, the information security function can gather increased executive-level backing and, subsequently, more resources to implement the business-supported strategy.
    • Gain more influence. Security management now encompasses much more than technology; CISOs can build their reputation and enhance their personal career prospects by talking ?ROI? rather than ?IPS? and influencing their colleagues at the highest levels of the organization. In 2011, Forrester surveyed over 2.000 senior IT decision-makers, and 50% expected the business to be increasingly involved in security and privacy decisions over the next 12 months; 38% also expected the business to be much more involved in setting the security strategy ? in this environment, a CISO without business influence begins to lose any semblance of leadership responsibility.? ??

    The Security & Risk Practice playbook is geared towards helping CISOs deal with their evolving responsibilities and build a security function that looks beyond the technology and seeks to deliver business value. It provides the tools and insight to enable the transformation of InfoSec organisations via four critical steps:

    1) Discover: identify and articulate the value of information security in business terms;

    2) Plan: set the organizational structure and define an information security strategy that has strong support at the executive level;

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    4) Optimize: measure and refine InfoSec efforts to maximize their value.

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    Microsoft offered to help Fez dev over patch costs

    Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft has responded to the thinly veiled criticism it has received from Fez developer Polytron regarding the game?s controversial patch.

    The game?s lead developer Phil Fish hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons last week after stating that his company would not be fixing a fundamental bug in Fez due to the prohibitive cots of patching an XBLA title.

    And aside from the criticism Fish himself had to endure, fingers were also pointed at Microsoft for its role in the saga.

    But now the company has gone on record to say that it did offer the developers a helping hand.

    ?Polytron and their investor, Trapdoor, made the decision not to work on an additional title update for Fez,? a statement issued to Kotaku read. ?Microsoft Studios chose to support this decision based on the belief that Polytron/Trapdoor were in the best position to determine what the acceptable quality level is for their game.

    ?While we do not disclose the cost of Title Updates, we did offer to work with Trapdoor to make sure that wasn't a blocking issue. We remain huge fans of Fez.?

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    Strongyloides stercoralis infection: a health issue regarding ...

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    Publication year: 2012Source:Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 106, Issue 8Ta-Chung Wu, Wei-Yi Lei, Ming-Cheh Chen, Chi-Tan Hu Strongyloidiasis, caused by Strongyloides stercoralis, is endemic in tropical and subtropical regions. Whether or not the infection rate is higher among indigenous populations in Taiwan remains unclear. The aim of our study was to assess the racial demographics, diagnoses and clinical details of strongyloidiasis. A total of 41 patients (27 males and 14 females) with strongyloidiasis at a tertiary referral centre in eastern Taiwan in a 21-year period were investigated retrospectively. The majority (36/41, 88%) of these patients lived in rural townships.

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    IOC President Jacques Rogge honors Israelis

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    Tampa beefs up security ahead of GOP convention

    TAMPA, fla.?? Tampa has hosted four Super Bowls, but the protesters expected to cram into the city for the Republican National Convention will be a different sort of crowd, and the police are trying to be ready.

    In 2008, thousands of protesters arrived in St. Paul, Minn., for the RNC. Some smashed cars, punctured tires and threw bottles in a confrontation with pepper-spray wielding police. Hundreds were arrested, including dozens of journalists.

    "Minneapolis surprised everyone," said Rod Reder, a retired Hillsborough County sheriff's captain who worked three Super Bowls in Tampa and the Free Trade Area of the Americas protests in Miami in 2003.

    Congress has given Tampa ? and Charlotte, the location of the Democratic National Convention ? $50?million each in taxpayer money to try to ensure everyone is safe for the political gatherings that crown each party's presidential candidate every four years.

    Tampa police have spent about $13.6 million so far on big-ticket security items, including 200 bicycles, 13 electric all-terrain vehicles and one armored truck for the Aug.?27-31 Republican gathering.

    However, authorities are not revealing much more about the purchases and other expenditures.

    The Associated Press sent Tampa police a public records request asking for copies of the purchase orders and bids of everything the department is buying for the convention. The Secret Service contends that the information is exempt from public scrutiny due to homeland security concerns, and officials say the request is under review.

    For more than a year, a phalanx of federal, state and local agencies have met to discuss convention security plans. Protest zones and parade routes have been created for those ? perhaps in the tens of thousands ? wishing to express their opinions.

    "We've extensively studied St. Paul," said Tampa City Attorney Jim Shimberg. "We've had meetings with folks in St. Paul, to find out what went well and what went wrong."

    Reder's security company is offering bodyguard services to VIPs and politicians. He said he is not concerned about protesters, many of whom are from labor union groups or organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union. His worry is anarchists who think government should be abolished.

    "This is not a Super Bowl crowd," he said. "Big difference. Tampa's never seen anything like this."

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