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"Short But Sweet"
Been waiting for this game for a while now. Not only has the 3DS been in dire need of actual downloadable 3D games here in the States, this was something from WayForward's flagship Mighty series. Hot anime chicks, great visuals, awesome music? Sign me up.
I must say, though, Mighty Switch Force (MSF) ended up being a bit different than what I had anticipated. From the bits of preview material I'd seen, I was expecting something along the lines of a Metroidvania. In the end, MSF actually has more in common with Mega Man, though there's definitely more of a focus on the puzzle elements than crazy hard platforming.
MSF is broken up into 16 separate incidents, and you need to capture the criminals hiding in each level. WayForward is a bit presumptuous, offering no instruction about the controls. However, there's not too much to content with here, and a little experimentation will see you a master of the controls in no time.
The first couple of incidents are pretty straightforward, and the main mechanic of switching platforms in and out of existence is intuitive. You'll know what you need to do right away. By the third incident, however, WayForward is already beginning to throw some incredibly clever gameplay at you, and it just keeps getting better from there.
There's been a good deal of talk about par times, which are listed for each incident. Personally, I didn't feel pressured to complete levels within their par times during my first playthrough, and truly, it would be near impossible to do on most levels your first time through.
Unfortunately, there's very little reason to suffer through achieving par times for all levels, as I believe your only reward is a new title screen. That's cool and all, but hardly enough reason to try and beat the pars.
Luckily, the levels are just plain fun to play through, and if you were into SNES gaming back in the day, MSF is a great throwback to that era. For me personally -- with having to redo certain incidents several times -- I'd say the game offered about five hours of play my first time through. But I'll definitely be coming back to this one here and there.
Visually, this is about as good as 2D (in 3D, of course) gaming gets. MSF is gorgeous, end of story. The animations are smooth, the sprite design is pixel perfect, and personally, I love Wayforward's sexy yet harmless art style. The 3D effect is tasteful and not overdone. Seeing 2D layers of parallax in 3D like this is just fantastic.
And if you've frequented any forums related to the game, surely you've noticed quite a bit of talk regarding the game's soundtrack. It's an awesome collection of techno pop that fits wonderfully alongside the gameplay but is equally enjoyable on its own.
It's a shame, therefore, the game doesn't offer a sound-test area or any other notable unlockables. I know it's only $6, but there's so much to love here in terms of audio and visuals, it would be nice to have the opportunity to enjoy those elements outside of gameplay. Besides, unlockables are always the best incentive to keep you coming back for more.
In spite of these criticisms, Mighty Switch Force is an excellent neo-retro experience. The gameplay is WayForward at the top of their game as developers, and the production values are through the roof -- stellar stuff. Next time, though, I'd rather pay double the price for more incidents and some real unlockables. Make it happen, WayForward!
Reviewer's Rating: 4.5 - Outstanding
Originally Posted: 01/03/12
Game Release: Mighty Switch Force! (US, 12/22/11)
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Located off I-70, the Americinn Lodge & Suites Eagle gives guests a small town experience and easy access to Vail's world-class skiing, about 30 miles away. Putt the holes of Eagle Ranch Golf Course, a 10-minute drive from the hotel. Denver International Airport is 149 miles away and Grand Junction Regional Airport is 117 miles away.
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"Clean, attractive" accommodations, a "cordial" staff and "great cookies" in the common area make the Americinn Lodge & Suites Eagle highly rated for overall quality by Priceline guests.
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The entire course of the 34th Annual America's Cup World Series will be completely within San Francisco Bay, passing between Alcatraz Island and Angel Island State Park, bringing the oldest trophy in international sport back to the United for the first time in 18 years.
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- Tuoba (拓拔), an early name for a clan of the Xianbei people in ancient China
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- Toba catastrophe theory, according to which modern human evolution was affected by the Toba eruption
- Toba, Mie, a city in Mie prefecture, Japan
- Toba (Nova Crnja), a village near Nova Crnja, Serbia
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- Toba, Jhelum, a village in Pakistan
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- Theater Owners Booking Association (T.O.B.A.), a major black vaudeville circuit
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- TOBA, or TOrsion-Bar Antenna, a proposed gravitational wave detector
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Horry County police said Thursday that there were no obvious signs of arson
Horry County Fire Rescue and the Loris Fire Department responded to the fire around 12:30 a.m. on Lake Pond Road.
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This study is among the best in the notable series of short presidential biographies presided over by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. While recent biographers have taken a more sympathetic view of Grant than formerly, Bunting goes further to show that Grant possessed that rarest quality among American presidents: nobility of character. He acknowledges Grant's youthful tippling and the defects of his presidency. But as a veteran military officer himself, Bunting (An Education for Our Time ) captures Grant's brilliance as a strategist, his quiet compassion, his firm judgment and his humanity as the Union's principal military leader. Then, where other historians hold Grant's administration responsible for many of the failures of Reconstruction, Bunting believes Grant was in his era "the central force in the achievement of civil rights for blacks, the most stalwart and most reliable among all American presidents for the next eighty years." What's more, Bunting does as good a job as possible in making sense of Grant's difficult presidency. If at times the author excuses Grant too much for his handling of scandal and for the consequences of his unwavering loyalty to friends, his defense is well within the bounds of credibility. This superb book should support those who are gradually moving Grant from the lower to the upper half of rankings of chief executives. Agent, Tina Bennett. (Sept. 8)
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Back when Junior Bridgeman wore a University of Louisville Cardinal basketball jersey in the mid Seventies most players competed "for the love of the game and the loyalty to school," he remembers. By the time he was selected 8th over-all in the NBA Draft in '75 by the Los Angeles Lakers, he saw that it was all "business."
Bridgeman, who would go on to become an NBA Player Representative and have his jersey retired by the Milwaukee Bucks, is the honored guest for Wednesday's fireside chat on the "decline of character in collegiate sports" – the second in the Billy Reed "Conversations with Champions at Georgetown College." This free event begins at 7:30 p.m. (Oct. 20) in John L. Hill Chapel.
Reed, who recently joined former Gov. Martha Layne Collins as a GC Executive Scholar-in-Residence, is a former sports editor at the Louisville Courier-Journal and contributor to Sports Illustrated. About Bridgeman, Reed wrote, "Junior always has done things the right way. He prepared himself for life after basketball by getting his degree and developing good contacts in the business world. Today he owns a chain of Wendy's and is giving back by being a community leader. He's a past board chairman at U of L. Bottom line, he is a great role model for student-athletes."
Besides being president of Manna Inc/ERJ Inc and owner of 163 Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburger Restaurants and 121 Chili's in five states, Bridgeman is active on a number of boards. Currently, he serves on U of L's athletics board, Louisville's Arena Authority board – which just last week saw the dedication of the KFC Yum! Center in downtown Louisville and Fifth Third Bank. He's also a board member of the PGA, the golf organization with which Georgetown College has a unique partnership.
Bridgeman especially appreciates the platform golf gives him to talk about sportsmanship and fair play. "In golf there is respect for your opponent," he said. "And, it's the only sport where you can call a foul on yourself."
Bridgman is dismayed, though, with what's happened in collegiate sports. "Somewhere along the line it's gotten off track – what with the money (Division 1) schools can make being on national TV every week, coaches contracts, and issues of integrity and character that have gotten away from the core values of athletics," he said.
"Somehow we've got to get back to competing on a higher level than high school, but not to where winning is the most important thing – and to win you'll do anything," Bridgeman said.
Collectively these "conversations" with Billy Reed tie in with GC Athletics Director Eric Ward's emphasis on the College's "Champions of Athletic Character" program. Ward, Reed and President Bill Crouch urge all student-athletes, sports fans and concerned citizens to come and be part of the solution by helping to restore character, ethics and integrity in collegiate sports.


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I am working my way through tutorial 2. I have created the ArticleHolder and ArticlePage classes and they show up as new page types in the CMS. However, when I try to create an ArticlePage page under an ArticleHolder page I get a blank warning dialog box. The only thing in it is the warning triangle. Can anyone tell me what this means or perhaps tell me how to view a log file to find out what is happening. I am stumped.
First be sure you have followed the tutorial closely, and have not taken any liberties with the code. Try not to taunt the SS code provided in the tutorials until you have a good handle on it's idiosyncrasies.
You are working in Dev mode you should see any errors. Log in as an admin and set ?&isDev=1 in your url, per http://doc.silverstripe.com/doku.php?id=urlvariabletools
You want logs, be sure the option is set then check em: http://doc.silverstripe.com/doku.php?id=error-handling#filesystem_logs
None of the above helps, use Firebug's Net >> XHR tab to see what is going on. Viewing the actual request will give you insight into what is failing.
Attach a screenshot of your error and we'll go from there
Thanks for the help. Unfortunately - or not - I needed to reinstall a second copy on another server. The second install worked just fine on the tutorial. I am not sure why the first did not work, but lets call it a noob error.


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It's a gift a guy can give a girl that definitely can been seen as a gift for him too, breast implants. To be honest, unless I was married to a chick for several years I would not buy them as a gift for any girl. Well, I guess I am in the minority as now a guy is suing his ex over his payment of her boob job.
Patricja Pajak says she dumped Lukas Molovik because he was "obsessed with her boob size." Lukas apparently kept showing Patricja pictures of his ex and her "giant boobs." (Surprised she didn't dump him then).
She eventually agreed to getting the "job" done out of her love for him. That didn't solve the problems as Lukas became obsessed with the boob implants themselves – So, she left him.
Lukas now has a team of lawyers suing for half the cost of the boob job. One lawyer says his client "is suffering from 'loss of use' of the 32 DD boobs after Patricja split from him."
Lukas himself had this to say: "To be frank about it, I didn't spend all that money so some other man can ogle her boobs instead of me."


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Civil service mariners from Military Sealift Command rescue and salvage ship USNS Grasp completed three days and more than 445 man-hours of improvement projects at the for the Deaf and for the Blind Unit in yesterday.
Grasp arrived in Antigua July 4 as part of a four-month international outreach mission to the . While the ship's embarked team of 15 Navy divers conducted tailored training and security operations with military divers from , and , Grasp's civil service mariners sought out an opportunity to do a goodwill project ashore.
The 60-year-old, 3,400 square foot school is attended by 18 deaf and three blind children.
Over the course of July 15-17, all 29 of Grasp's civil service mariners and the four sailors of the ship's military detachment spent time, most of it volunteered, working at the school. Three of the embarked Navy divers also participated.
Grasp's crew pressure washed the building's exterior, painted all interior and exterior walls – a surface area of more than 11,000 square feet, removed 21 55-gallon lawn bags of trash and landscaped the school's courtyard.
Grasp's crew of 29 civil service mariners operate and navigate the ship, while about a dozen specially-trained rescue and salvage divers from the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command's Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit Two, Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group Two and Underwater Construction Team One are aboard to conduct diving operations. Grasp also has a permanent detachment of four sailors who operate the communications suite.
Grasp's current deployment, called Navy Diver–Global Fleet Station 2008, is directed by the U.S. Southern Command and is designed to enhance maritime security in the region.


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Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today traveled to Orlando, Fla. to deliver remarks at the Women in Federal Law Enforcement Leadership Training Conference highlighting the Department's commitment to working across the homeland security enterprise to develop and train the next generation of leaders.
"I am proud of the dedicated women in law enforcement who work hard to keep our country safe," said Secretary Napolitano. "As a Department, we are committed to developing the next generation of leaders in security and public service, by recruiting qualified and talented staff, and bolstering programs to help them build their skills and advance at DHS."
In 2010, DHS launched the "Women in Leadership Program" at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. Developed for women in law enforcement, the program covers a range of challenging topics related to career development and leadership in law enforcement.
While in Orlando, Secretary Napolitano met with DHS law enforcement representatives to underscore the importance of collaborating with federal, state, local, tribal and territorial partners to enhance our nation's ability to identify, mitigate and respond to emerging threats.
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You're all forgetting the BG had a deadly weapon available the whole time, his car. The BG was in effect "brandishing" a deadly weapon every moment he was driving that aggressively. Is it the law written that way? I don't know, it's still the truth however.
I've been in this situation from the outside (seeing it happen) and called 911 from the car.
The police had me tail the aggressor (they saw it as that important) until they could take over. The person was pulled over and had multiple charges laid against them at that point.
While I talked to the LEO's they were very happy that they had been called and were able to act before there was a physical confrontation.
You acted completely correctly, and with restraint, once cornered. You may want to think about calling 911 when the trouble starts if it happens again.
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SEXUALLY assaulting victims and possession of illegal firearms are among the accusations made against police officers in Essex.
In 2013 more than 1,000 complaints were made, with about one in ten upheld, and several resulted in criminal charges.
Other allegations included perjury, possession of indecent images, and illegally accessing data.
The figures were revealed by police and crime commissioner Nick Alston in two documents citing the last six months of complaints and alleged misconduct.
He said: ""I am not surprised it happens but I am disappointed about the number of serious incidents.
"The community has reasonable expectations and they are entitled to know what is happening and they have the right to know things are going to be dealt with."
One now former officer with Essex Police has been convicted of possession of an illegal firearm.
Other allegations include: disclosing confidential information to criminals, assault while off duty, possessing indecent images, using excessive force against a youth, inappropriate relationships with witness and abuse of position.
One officer is being investigated for allegedly sexually assaulting two victims of crime.
Several of the officers involved have resigned or been fired and put on a disapproved register to stop them becoming police officers elsewhere.
Mr Alston said: "I am very conscious police officers, PCSOs and police staff are currently working tirelessly to investigate the murders of James Attfield and Nahid Al-Manea, and to keep both Colchester and all the communities of Essex safe.
"Many officers and PCSOs are working back-to-back 12 hour shifts, day after day.
"They deserve our respect, our support and our thanks.
"But I have yet to speak to a member of Essex Police who does not believe high professional standards matter.
"The vast majority of police officers, PCSOs and police staff feel that acts of misconduct, or those even more rare acts of criminality, performed by their colleagues let down everyone in the force.
"Police officers are figures of authority. They and their colleagues must act responsibly and professionally at all times.
"I am aware there may be public shock and disappointment at some of the details.
"I would ask everyone to remember that, including police officers, PCSOs, police staff and Special Constables, almost 6,000 people work for Essex Police, and there are hundreds of thousands of interactions between the public and the force, often in difficult circumstances, every year."


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DAYTONA BEACH — First day on a new job, and you're bound to have questions. Everyone does.
You might ask about time cards. Or computer systems. Or driving at insane speeds without crashing into anyone.
So Danica Patrick, any surprises after that first day at work?
You know, other than stalling the car after a pit stop. Or dropping far behind the leaders. Or bouncing into a wall after getting caught up in an unavoidable accident in front of you.
"It's important to have realistic expectations," Patrick said Saturday, after her NASCAR debut in the Nationwide series was cut short on the 69th lap following a 12-car accident.
"There are going to be spikes in performance, I don't doubt that. But there's also going to be tough days. And today, I would say, was more of a tough day."
Tough, but not really shocking. The truth is, Patrick is practically set up for disappointment in her rookie season in NASCAR. It's not that she isn't talented. And it's not that she isn't a devoted student. But her fame far exceeds her experience in a stock car.
And that means too many people will be too eager to write her off as a gimmick. Just another pretty face brought into the Dale Earnhardt Jr. racing stable to win sponsorships instead of races.
While there may be some truth to the accusation, it is still unfair to dismiss Patrick too quickly. These are different cars, on different tracks, with a different racing style than anything she has done.
"Just getting the experience in the car, learning what changes to make, how it makes the car react, that's what this week was about," said Saturday's Drive4COPD 300 winner, Tony Stewart. "It wasn't about where is she going to finish, where is she going to end up. This week was a learning week, plain and simple. That's what she was here for: to learn."
First lesson:
There's still a lot to learn.
Consider the moment early in Saturday's race when an accident brought out a caution flag. Patrick did a nifty job of avoiding the spinning cars and debris in front of her, and crew chief Tony Eury Jr. complimented her poise on the radio.
But later, like a new employee unsure of what to do next, Patrick had to ask Eury whether the cars would be single file for the restart or side-by-side.
Consider it on-the-job training. At 150 mph.
The best thing Patrick has going for her is that she understands all of this. She's savvy enough to have marketed herself as a celebrity, but competitive enough to want success at least as much as fame.
And she seems willing to put in the time to do this right. She has been fanatical about watching video to soak up as much knowledge of stock car racing as possible. And she was smart enough to ease her way into NASCAR through the Nationwide series. She probably would have been fine skipping Saturday's race if her sponsors hadn't gotten overly excited about her sixth-place finish in an ARCA race last week.
Even in Saturday's race, Patrick avoided the temptation of taking chances to prove herself. With Eury encouraging her to push the envelope a little more during the first 40 laps, Patrick kept her distance from the pack because the car didn't feel right.
After a suspension adjustment during a pit stop, she said the handling was much better and she moved from 31st to 21st.
"When they tell you to keep pushing it, trust me, nobody wants to push it more than the driver," Patrick said. "I mean, I'm the one who is being looked at out there. So I really just take it to the limit of where I feel comfortable and what the car is giving me. And in the first stint, I didn't feel good, and I didn't feel like the car was going to give me what I wanted if I pushed it any harder.
"In that second run there, I felt much better. The car was much more under control, and I think we would have finished strong if we had finished, which was my goal, but as you can see it is easier said than done."
Not that the crushed car was her fault. Patrick had avoided one accident by slowing down and holding her line at the top of the track. When it happened a second time, she tried the same strategy, but upon driving through a cloud of smoke, she found a wrecked car directly in front of her. With her debut over, Patrick sounded frustrated on the radio.
"I was just starting to get it too, man," she said, while driving her broken car back to the pits.
There will be those who say Patrick, 27, got what she deserved. That she has not paid enough dues to have gotten so much attention on NASCAR's biggest weekend. And, I suppose, if she struggles down the line, then Patrick would be fair game.
You could call her a poser. A marketing phenomenon. A failure.
But it's far too soon for that kind of talk.
Right now, Danica Patrick is still learning about NASCAR.
And we're still learning about her.


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'Amazing Spider-Man' actor to play Bradley Cooper's son in 'American Sniper'
10-year-old actor Max Charles has been cast as Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller's son in Clint Eastwood's war drama "American Sniper," TheWrap has learned.
Charles, who starred on ABC's "The Neighbors" and plays young Peter Parker in the "Amazing Spider-Man" movies, recently voiced the titular human lead in DreamWorks Animation's "Mr. Peabody & Sherman."
Cooper stars as decorated Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, who is credited with the most sniper kills in U.S. military history. After surviving multiple tours of duty in Iraq, Kyle returns to the U.S. only to encounter personal tragedy.
Miller plays Kyle's wife, Taya, while Charles will play their son Colton Kyle.
Jake McDorman, Luke Grimes, Cory Hardrict and Kyle Gallner will play Cooper's comrades, and film also co-stars several real-life Navy SEALs, including Kyle's friend Kevin "Dauber" Lacz.
Eastwood is directing the Warner Bros./Village Roadshow war drama from a script by Jason Hall. Cooper is producing through his 22nd and Indiana banner, along with Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar and Peter Morgan. Village Roadshow Pictures is co-producing as well as co-financing with Warner Bros., whose Jon Berg is overseeing the project.
Charles is a veteran child actor with numerous TV appearances and voice-over credits whose previous feature credits include Guillermo del Toro's "Pacific Rim" and the Farrelly brothers' comedy "The Three Stooges." He'll soon be seen alongside Booboo Stewart in the post-apocalyptic thriller "The Well," and he also plays a younger version of Holt McCallany's character in the indie movie "White Space."
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Contract type:
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Duration of contract:
2 years initially
24 December 2012
Application Deadline:
24 January 2013
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The WHO Global Service Centre (GSC) provides administrative services to all staff and all WHO offices worldwide in respect of human resources, payroll, procurement, accounts payable and support of specific corporate IT applications. The aim of this Centre is to serve as the global processing platform for the swift and reliable delivery of a comprehensive array of products and services covering all these fields.
The Global Human Resources (GHR) team within the GSC focuses on the execution of HR services on a global scale with the aim to provide reliable, efficient, and consistent services as a one-stop-shop for all staff in WHO and partner agencies.
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The incumbent leads an HR team in support of the delivery of HR services in the area of contract administration and advice to fixed-term and/or temporary staff members. Specifically, the incumbent will:
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- Advanced Degree an advantage.
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A Washington-based owner, operator and developer of multi-family projects in the western United States plans to build an apartment complex on Colorado Springs' east side.
The project would be the latest by local and out-of-state developers, who have ramped up apartment construction in recent years as a result of an improved multi-family market.
The Inland Group of Spokane Valley plans a 10-building, 216-unit apartment complex on nearly 10 acres southeast of Airport Road and Crestline Drive, between Academy and Powers boulevards, according to plans submitted to the city's Land Use Review Division.
Copper Creek Apartments, as the project will be called, will include one-, two- and three-bedroom units. Among other amenities, the complex will have garages and carports to accommodate nearly 120 vehicles; a clubhouse, fitness center, business center and game room; a heated outdoor pool; and a playground.
The complex's amenities will be similar to those at pricier apartments elsewhere in town, but its rents will be competitive — ranging from $750 to $1,050 a month, said Scott Scelfo, Inland asset manager.
The company liked the improvement it has seen in the Springs' multi-family market and believes the area has a stable employment base, he said.
Inland also liked the location — a short drive from Powers Boulevard and near the Colorado Springs Airport, Sand Creek Elementary School and Sage Brush Park. Few, if any, complexes have been built of late on the city's southeast side, Scelfo said.
"The market is very prime for apartment development right now," he said.
Construction is targeted to begin in late August and be completed in late October 2014, Scelfo said
Inland previously constructed an apartment complex in the Springs for a third party, but Copper Creek will be the first company-built project that it also will own and manage, Scelfo said.
Copper Creek won't be Inland's last Springs project, he said. Inland, which also develops independent living retirement communities, luxury resort communities and college residence halls, is narrowing its search for a Springs site to build an active-adult apartment project for residents 55 and older, Scelfo said.
The company has finished construction on a similar project in Lafayette, east of Boulder, he said. Such projects have many of the same amenities as a senior independent living facility, but don't have community kitchens or meal programs.
At the same time, after the Copper Creek complex is established, Inland might look for north side sites for another traditional apartment complex, he said.
Inland owns and operates about 3,200 apartments in Colorado, California, Idaho, Washington and Montana. It's also developed and constructed more than 22,000 units throughout the western U.S. The company also has a commercial arm that builds and develops hotels, retail and office projects.
The apartment market in the Pikes Peak region has improved dramatically over the last three to four years; vacancy rates that had risen to double-digit levels from 2003-2008 began drifting downward four years ago.
In the fourth quarter of 2012, the local vacancy rate was 7.1 percent, after having been as low as 5.8 percent in early 2011.
Monthly rents, meanwhile, have been on the rise as vacancies have fallen, and averaged a record $790.95 in the fourth quarter.
Rising rents and greater demand have spurred interest among developers; at least a half-dozen apartment projects have been announced over the last three years.
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Emerging Job Search Trends In 2014
April 17, 2014
Take note of these new hiring trends so that you can start your job search on the right foot.
By Angela Rose for
The biopharma job market is constantly evolving. As
pharmaceutical companies
expand and new
biotech organizations
launch, employers and recruiters have begun exploring more efficient and effective ways to connect with qualified candidates. Job seekers have changed their approach in response, from the formatting of their
to the tools they use to stand out from the crowd. Consider the following emerging job search trends recently identified at the Global Career Brainstorming Day hosted by the Career Thought Leaders Consortium.
1. If you want biopharma employers to find you, you must be online.
Raptor Pharm
Associate Director, QA Lot Disposition
Dart NeuroScience
Research Associate/Associate Scientist, DMPK
Manager, Clinical Data Management
Product Manager, Payer Marketing
Seattle Genetics
Manager, Regulatory Affairs
From building relationships with future candidates via industry discussion groups to searching career sites for job seeker resumes, recruiters and employers are increasingly relying on the Internet to discover and connect with potential hires. If employers don't find you online, it's safe to say you are missing out on some of the best job opportunities. Fortunately, it's easy for pharmaceutical and biotech job seekers to establish an Internet presence.
Start by
posting your resume
on an industry specific job board such as BioSpace. Next, create professional profiles on the major social media platforms. Finally, set up a personal website to showcase your experience and achievements. According to the Career Thought Leaders Consortium, personal websites are growing in popularity.
2. If you want to stand out, you must create a personal brand.
With so many
research assistants
, and
QA specialists
vying for every available job, it can be tough to stand out in the sea of applicants. Creating a personal brand can help tremendously because it enables you to communicate who you are, what you do, and the value you can add to the biopharma industry in an eloquent yet succinct way. When you present yourself as a brand rather than just a job seeker, you make it easier for employers to identify the traits that make you a uniquely appealing candidate.
Make the most of your personal brand by including it in every interaction you have with employers. Brand your social media profile, personal website, resume, and
cover letter
. According to the Career Thought Leaders Consortium, short personal branding statements are even replacing introductory paragraphs on many resumes.
3. An unconventional approach can also get employers to notice you.
According to the Career Thought Leaders Consortium, younger job seekers—particularly Millennials—are beginning to present themselves to employers using unconventional mediums such as videos and infographics rather than traditional resumes. While most biopharma employers will eventually require you to submit a formal resume or application before hire, a video biography or graphical representation of your experience and achievements may serve as an effective door opener. Consider including links to these types of promotional tools in your resume, on your social media profiles, and within your email signature block as well.
4. Job boards are another useful tool you should not neglect.
According to the Career Thought Leaders Consortium, job boards—particularly of the niche variety—are still a popular tool for connecting professionals and employers. In addition to posting their resume and applying for positions, biopharma job seekers can use niche job boards such as BioSpace to research
pharmaceutical companies
biotechnology organizations
, and
medical device manufacturers
of interest as well as harvest keywords for use on their personal website and social media profiles.
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Through strong drafting and several savvy trades, Mark Shapiro and the Indians have the pieces in place for a multi-year run atop the AL Central.
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The Indians take a 2-1 lead in the series by getting execution from some of their second-tier stars--their third starter, their set-up man, and Kenny Lofton.
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October 12, 2007 12:00 am
Unlike the NLCS expansion-team tandem, in the AL, it's a classic confrontation between two of the original eight.
The Red Sox and Indians tied for the major league lead with 96 wins this year, but that doesn't mean these two teams are exactly equal. The Sox outscored opponents by 210 runs, the largest margin in the majors, and finished with a third-order projection of 103.2 wins. The Tribe's run differential was about half as large (107 runs), and their third-order projection of 88.2 wins suggests a good deal more separation between these two teams than meets the eye.
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Zion Amir says that whoever wanted to see the former president's downfall has gotten what he wants.
The lawyer for former President Moshe Katsav says his client is devastated by his rape conviction last month.
Zion Amir's assessment was the first glimpse of Katsav's state of mind since the conviction.
Amir told Army Radio on Wednesday that whoever wanted to see the former president's downfall has gotten what he wants. "The man is in bad shape, very bad."
He would not say whether he feared for Katsav.
The court which found Katsav guilty of rape will probably decide whether to send him to prison in late February or early March, one of his defence lawyers said on Wednesday.
The 65-year-old former president and Likud minister was convicted of two counts of raping an employee while he was a Cabinet minister in the late 1990s. He was also convicted of lesser counts of sexual misconduct involving two other women who worked for him when he was president from 2000 to 2007.
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I think it is made of very light tin - I want to say it's a very light gauge metal like flashing you can get at Lowe's. It comes on a roll. You have to be careful cutting it out because it can be very sharp.
If you are in a pinch I have seen people just use the spoons hot glued on a board without the metal.
That video was really great- thanks for sharing and I hope this helps.
You can use foil pie or cake tins cut up to make the formers. They are heavier than heavy duty foil on the roll. HTH
AI know this is an old thread, but does anyone have any photos or can describe better what they are talking about?


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The death penalty is poised for a comeback. Not the practice of capital punishment itself — which is very much alive and well, especially in states such as Texas — but the political, hot-button wedge issue of sending people to death could return. And it could force President Obama to take a stand and pick a side.
Throughout modern U.S. history, the death penalty has proven a big political issue. Examples of more high-profile and controversial executions include Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who in 1953 became the first American civilians put to death for espionage charges. Ted Bundy, who confessed to murdering 30 women, was put to death in Florida in 1989. And Timothy McVeigh faced a federal execution in 2001 for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, which left 168 dead, including 19 children in a daycare center.
Politicians have manipulated the issue of state-sponsored killing to appear tough on crime. In 1992, Arkansas governor and then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton flew home to watch the execution of Rickey Ray Rector, a 40-year-old, mentally-impaired black man who was convicted of murdering a black police officer.
Clinton, who once opposed the death penalty in his youth, was influenced by events four years earlier, when then-Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis lost the 2008 election. Dukakis had appeared soft on crime when asked during a debate if he would support the death penalty if his wife were raped and murdered. His response was "I think there are better and more effective ways to deal with violent crime."
But lately, as a political issue, capital punishment has not received as much attention in the media. And it has largely faded from public consciousness, even as executions have continued despite troubling questions over its use, and the role of DNA evidence in exonerating the innocent. Since 1973, 138 prisoners in 26 states have been released from death row after evidence proved they were innocent, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. They spent an average of 9.8 years behind bars for a crime they did not commit.
According to Amnesty International, more than two-thirds of the world's nations have abolished the death penalty. Most of the advanced world has done away with the practice. And the U.S. is among the top five countries that execute its citizens, putting America in league with China, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
The application of the death penalty in America speaks to a history of violence, particularly racial violence. It is curiously coincidental that executions are prevalent in the Southern states, the former Confederacy, where dehumanization of black folks had been accomplished through slavery, Jim Crow lynching, and unequal justice meted out by a kangaroo court system.
With poor, black and brown defendants most likely to receive a death sentence — often based on a lack of evidence, witness coercion, racial discrimination and inadequate legal representation — it is no wonder that some refer to capital punishment as "legal lynching." And mob justice is the practical result in an inherently broken system that believes in expediency over affording due process and determining one's guilt or innocence.
A number of recent events have once again placed executions in the forefront. For one, on September 21, Georgia is set to execute Troy Davis, who has been on death row for two decades for the 1989 killing of a police officer, despite no physical evidence tying him to the crime. Seven of the original nine witnesses in the case recanted or contradicted their stories, and three of those say their statements were coerced by the police. A coalition including the NAACP, Amnesty International, the ACLU, Color of Change and Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty delivered a petition with thousands of signatures to the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles in support of Davis.
William Sessions, the FBI director under Reagan, Clinton and the elder Bush, wrote an op-ed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution urging Georgia to stay Davis's execution, given the doubts that permeate the case.
Meanwhile, in Texas, presidential candidate Governor Rick Perry has received increased attention these days for a number of questionable executions under his watch. Perry has executed juveniles, those lacking mental capacity and others with incompetent court-appointed lawyers, and one person who was not the shooter.
In another case, a man named Cameron Todd Willingham was killed by lethal injection for murdering his three children in a fire, despite shoddy evidence and the testimony of two psychologists who never met him.
During a recent Republican presidential debate, Texas Governor Rick Perry received applause by the crowd for his death penalty record.
"Your state has executed 234 death row inmates, more than any other governor in modern times," NBC's Brian Williams told Perry amidst applause from the audience. "Have you struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any one of those might have been innocent?"
"No, sir, I've never struggled with that at all," Perry responded. "In the state of Texas, if you come into our state and you kill one of our children, you kill a police officer, you're involved with another crime and you kill one of our citizens, you will face the ultimate justice in the state of Texas, and that is you will be executed."
"What do you make of that dynamic that just happened here, the mention of the execution of 234 people drew applause?" Williams asked.
"I think Americans understand justice," Perry offered. "I think Americans are clearly in the vast majority of cases, supportive of capital punishment. When you have committed heinous crimes against our citizens, and it's a state-by-state issue, but in the state of Texas, our citizens have made that decision, and they made it clear, and they don't want you to commit those crimes against our citizens, and if you do, you will face the ultimate justice."
Perry was urged to halt the September 15 execution of Duane Edward Buck, and the September 20 execution of Steven Woods. Buck was given a death sentence based on the testimony of a psychologist who said that blacks are more violent, and that being black made Buck more dangerous. Woods was sentenced to death for double murder, even though his accomplice admitted to pulling the trigger.
In light of the tea party voters who vote in the GOP primaries, Perry's death penalty record is an asset, even a virtue. Never mind that the governor, who would preach to others about Jesus and being a "pro-life" Christian without producing his credentials qualifying him to do so, appears more like Pontius Pilate to some observers. But he has a good shot at the nomination.
After all, he already flexed his dominionist bona fides before the fundamentalist GOP base. Plus, he has stolen Michele Bachmann's thunder, and he is not Mitt Romney. And the Southern fundamentalist base is about as likely to vote for a Mormon as they are to vote for a black president they characterize as a radical Muslim socialist from Kenya. That, along with a pulse and the ability to form basic sentences, could put Perry over the top.
If Rick Perry wins his party's nomination and goes head-to-head with President Obama in the general election, the Texas death machine may well become his Achilles Heel, potentially far worse than his right-wing pastor problem.
President Obama would serve his own cause by painting Perry as not ready for primetime and too extreme for the mainstream — a backwoods governor who is free and loose with killing folks for the sake of it, just as he threatened to lynch Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in that good ol' Texas tradition.
"If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I dunno what y'all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas. Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treasonous in my opinion," Perry said of Bernanke on the campaign trail in Iowa.
By taking a stand against the death penalty — broken, unjust and rife with abuse — Obama would appear reasonable to so-called independents. Moreover, he would once again reveal his backbone to his Democratic base, and energize those progressives and Liberals whose enthusiasm he needs on Election Day. What better opportunity for a Nobel laureate to reaffirm his commitment to human rights? Such a stand would allow a broader national discussion on an abhorrent, barbaric practice that flies in the face of international human rights law and remains a source of global embarrassment.
Many a political career has been built on executions, not to mention the inevitable criminalization of people of color that accompanies the "tough on crime" stance. President Obama could find himself drawn into the death penalty debate via Texas Governor Perry and the Troy Davis case in Georgia. Taking the high road may change the narrative on capital punishment in America, and solidify his legacy and political fortunes as well.


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Literary Architecture
Joseph Conrad, Heart of DarknessBy Matteo Pericoli
Matteo Pericoli is the founder of the Laboratory of Literary Architecture, an interdisciplinary project that looks at fiction through the lens of architecture, designing and building stories as architectural projects. In this series, he shares some of his designs and what they reveal about the stories they're modeled on.
The skyscraper looming above us is composed of a clean, well-defined volume and a formless, organic, irregular mass that seems to be enveloping the volume while supporting it and, at the same time, oozing from it like a leak from a crack. The shape of the central, glass and steel building is that of an upside-down truncated square pyramid—tall and slender, bright and reflective like a spear stuck into the ground. The accretion is geometrically fluid, opaque, made of wood and with few openings.


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Justin Clift wrote: > For the last month and a half or so I've pretty much devoted all my > spare time to creating the first of a series of Macromedia Flash Player > based tutorials on aspects of PostgreSQL. I'm working to get a decent > Computer Based Training (CBT) implementation going, and I'm fairly proud > of how this first effort has turned out. > You should be -- very nice work! > What I'm hoping to get is constructive feedback, as I've put as much > time, thought, and effort into this first one as I know how to. I'm > talking HEAPS. Suggestions of what should be the subject of the next > CBT are also welcome. Two minor comments: First, in 7.2+ sequences are based on 8 byte integers on platforms which support them, so the default maxvalue is 9223372036854775807 instead of 2147483647. Second, the currval function returns the "value most recently obtained by nextval for this sequence in the current server process" -- i.e. it only shows the last value obtained in your own session, and will give an error if nextval has not already been called within the current session. If you decide to do a CBT on use of the bytea data type, I'd be happy to try to help. Take care (and Happy Holidays!), -- Joe
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1. How long has the business been operating and how did it start?
Paul founded Centered Yoga, a leader in the field of yoga education in New York City in
1999. Two years later Paul and his wife, Jutima, moved to Thailand, Jutima's
birthplace. Together they opened the first M20908 in 2003 as a venue
for Centered Yoga's retreats and training courses, and wellness programs. They
moved to their purpose built beach front retreat center in Laem Sor in 2008.
2. What is your company's mission?
Mission Statement:
M20908 is a yoga and wellness retreat center dedicated to inner personal growth through yoga, healthy living, running a fair organization with minimal impact as possible on the environment, with sincerity and integrity to the practices and true development.
Centered Yoga offers educational training programs in the practice and philosophy of yoga for those with a sincere interest to deepen their experience and understanding of yoga and spiritual growth in life.
Samahita Wellness aims to educate people on a healthy lifestyle through detox programs and therapies that encourages balance in one's life, physically, energetically and mentally.
Samahita Green Living is a community project offering full infrastructure plots to build one's home under eco-friendly principles, for those interested in holistic living and harmony with nature.
3. What does your company specialize in?
Yoga, Wellness, Detox, Retreats, Massage, Reiki, Cleansing, Fasting, Ashtanga, Restoratice Yoga, Meditation, Pranayama, Breath work.
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M20908 founder Paul Dallaghan is a senior teacher of pranayama, asana and the meditative art and science of
yoga. He has been a dedicated student for over a decade of both Sri O.P.Tiwari, one of
the few remaining classical yogis and masters of Pranayama, and the late Sri K.
Pattabhi Jois in ashtanga vinyasa. Both of these great teachers have personally
certified Paul in these practices, a unique position as the only one to receive this
double honor. Paul continues with mantra practice from the yoga lineage and
meditative approaches, influenced by the Thai Forest tradition. This combination of
practice and study through dedication and devotion has helped him gain some
understanding of practice and to apply this appropriately in asana, pranayama,
mantra recitation and meditation for the different level of students he has the
privilege to share the teaching with. He continues his studies in health, digestion,
anatomy and physiology.
5. What is your most popular travel package and why?
Samahita Wellness Programs are tailored to suit guests wellbeing needs from
'Simple' relaxation therapies, to 'Radiance' beauty treatments and 'Pure' detox
therapies. Three all-inclusive Wellness Programs have been created to offer
guests priority booking and discount privileges for all wellness treatments.
Ranging from 3, 5 and 7 day programs to choose from, all of which can be
extended to suit guests requirements.
6. What is the best compliment you received from a client?
Best yoga retreat center in the world. Excellent program, great teachers, fantastic beach, super and healthy food, brilliant service and accommodation! Thank you very much Irina.


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Confession Time! I am listening to Pharrell Williams song "Happy". My toes are tapping and it is hard to sit still, 'cause the song just makes me, well, Happy! Have you ever really listened to the song? There is such a great message in there, and makes you really think about what happiness is and how we can make sure we incorporate it into our daily lives.
But what if we take the message of happiness a bit deeper and apply it to the relationship with our spouse, partner or significant other. Would you say your relationship is happy? or does it need a bit of tweaking (or a lot) to adjust the happiness meter? Continue reading on then, because we compiled a list of things you can do to adjust the happiness quotient in your relationship.
1. Happy couples communicate regularly with each other. However the way they communicate may make the difference in how happy they are because they don't communicate to prove their individual points all the time. They listen to their partner and they empathize with them even if they don't always agree with them.
2. Happy couples go out of their way to make the other feel special. They remember the "small" things their partner likes and then proceeds to find ways to incorporate those things on a regular basis.
3. Happy couples respect each other. They don't text, or zone out when their partner is speaking to them. They give their total focus to their partner when he or she is communicating something to them.
4. Happy couples have great sex, in fact they schedule romantic getaways. Date nights are great, but being alone away from home can fan the flame of passion because you never have to worry about someone visiting unexpectedly or being quiet because you don't want to wake the children.
5. Happy couples are careful with what they say to and about each other. In this day and age, where everything we do seems to find its way onto some social media site, happy couples never say, share or post anything mean or negative about their partner.
The list above seems amazingly simple and easy doesn't it? But if you found a couple of areas that maybe you aren't totally "happy" in, try working on them and see what it does for your Couple Happiness Quotient!
Did you take special note of #4? If so, and you are thinking a romantic getaway is in order, give us a call at 262-275-3322 and book your suite today.
Lazy Cloud offers premier Lake Geneva lodging for couples looking for a romantic getaway. We are one of the few Lake Geneva hotels with jacuzzi in room for two. Our Lake Geneva bed and breakfast provides wonderful amenities with whirlpools for two that have a view of the fireplace in every suite and room. Because we offer this, we are a great place for honeymoon getaways. We are located in southeastern Wisconsin – only 90 minutes from Chicago and an hour from Milwaukee & Madison.