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By Wanda Curlee Do you ever wonder where project management could take you? Believe it or not, being a project manager is excellent preparation for becoming a chief operating officer (COO). After serving in the U.S. Navy on active duty for more than five years, I had no idea what I wanted to do. I stumbled into a project management role. I am lucky I did, because it prepared me for many different business roles. I am now on my journey from project manager to COO. The road is not simple, and there have been setbacks, but the goal remains close at hand. To see how project management can help prepare you for a COO role, take a look at this job description. OK, finished reading? Let's break down the large parts of the description and how they relate to project management. Lots of similarities A COO has "overall strategic and operational responsibility." As a project manager, you drive the project toward the end goal and keep it on track. But you also drive the strategy of the project and oversee its operational aspects. Granted, you are not doing these tasks at the executive level, but you are the COO for the project. The COO also develops, implements and manages the operational aspects of the annual budget. As a project manager you do all of this—at a project level. And depending on the size of the project, you may be managing a budget that is far greater than an organization's. Think about construction of an oil rig, building a high rise, outsourcing an IT department—all of these projects could have a budget larger than an entire company. Chief operating officers also have to know management operations. Fortunately, this is what you do day in and day out as a project manager. A COO just does operations on a larger scale. But with practice, understanding, and leading larger projects and programs, you will excel at the same skills required to be an effective COO. Although the job description may not spell it out, many of the soft skills you've honed in project management—networking, communicating, leadership, mentorship/coaching and learning from failure—are also required to be a successful COO. In addition, tangible skills like planning a budget, implementing training, overseeing the project budget and reporting to leadership will serve you well in the C-suite. A little help from your mentors As you prepare for a COO role, I'd also recommend finding mentors. Mentors were necessary for my advancement. I suggest finding three of them: one in your chain of command, the second in your organization but outside the chain of command, and the third outside of your organization. Choose your mentors carefully. Mentors—especially those outside the chain of command and the company—can help you stretch your limits. A mentor can provide suggestions on how to handle difficult situations. He or she can also provide insight into politics within the organization or how to handle a political situation. Finally, a mentor can provide advice on the next project or program to tackle to put you on the track to becoming a COO. |
How Talent Mapping Can Shore Up Your Project's Future
By Bernadine Douglas Every team member brings a unique skill set to a project. It's easy enough for observant project managers to take note of individuals' varying backgrounds and skills. What's harder is using different team member talents strategically to aid a project when the going gets tough. Here are a few tips for practitioners looking to maximize their team's talents to keep a project on track. The How. The first step is to get to know your team members. On many fast-paced projects, it may not be easy to find time to have general conversations with people. But if small time slots arise, be sure to take advantage of them. The payoff could be quick: Even during a casual conversation, a team member may share an insight for getting a task done in an innovative way or information about a skill you didn't realize he or she had. The What. It's important to map your team's skills while keeping potential resource shortages in mind. You want to make sure that one aspect of the project can continue if the point person for that area on your team becomes unavailable. Ideally, you'll be able to identify a backup on the team with the right skills to step in if necessary. If that proves impossible, you may have to get approval from another project manager in the organization to bring in someone from another project to meet a tight deadline. (This has happened to me.) The When. Don't be afraid of being flexible. In a budget-constrained situation, I have had to quickly train a team member on a skill so a project could continue. The key is finding a team member with the availability and willingness to learn on the fly. Have you mapped your team's varied skill sets? Have you thought about whom you'd turn to if a highly valuable team member were suddenly unavailable? I'd love to hear your project contingency plans. |
Taking It to the Next Level: Portfolio Management
By Wanda Curlee As a project manager, you may have worked within a program or portfolio, or both. You may have seen what seemed to be a successful project slowed or canceled, and been confused or upset by this. Why would higher-ups end a project that's proceeding within scope and budget and on schedule? The answer, most likely, has to do with the project's position relative to the organization's strategy and the portfolio in which the project resided. While working in the for-profit world and consulting on U.S. government projects, programs and portfolios, I've learned that program and portfolio managers in all sectors have to make tough decisions about which projects to deprioritize or cancel. Back when I was a project manager — I earned my Project Management Professional (PMP)® in 1993 — I found myself on the receiving end of bad news from program and portfolio managers. I responded by asking questions to learn as much as I could from the portfolio or program manager. My initial goal was to mature my project management skills, but I ultimately decided I wanted to work at the portfolio level. Portfolio management is an area of growing interest within organizations and at PMI. The institute's newest certification, the Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP)®, is an expression of that. I had the opportunity to help define the PfMP® by serving on the core team that established the first iteration of the certificate, which launched in August 2014. Some may think PMI mainly offers specialty certifications, such as risk (PMI-RMP)®, schedule (PMI-SP)® or agile (PMI-ACP)®. In fact, the PfMP offers a different kind of path, one that can help practitioners build a more strategic mindset and skill set within the world of project management. Portfolio Management 101 So what do portfolio managers do? First of all, a portfolio manager normally works for a C-level executive or a business unit head. While project/program management experience is not a requirement to be a portfolio manager, it can be a valuable entry point. The portfolio manager structures the portfolio to meet the strategic needs of an organization. She views projects and programs from a strategic perspective. Whereas the project manager is worried about doing things right, the portfolio manager is worried about doing the right things. Each of these roles is very important to the success of the organization. Let's go back to the scenario above, where a project manager is annoyed by the cancellation of a project that was tracking well. Think about it from the portfolio perspective: The portfolio manager may have canceled your project because another business unit started implementing something similar. The portfolio manager has to decide which project should continue and which shouldn't. Ready for a Career Pivot? Okay, perhaps you're ready to move into portfolio management. What's the best way to transition out of the project level? In my case, I looked for projects that matched the strategic needs of the organization. I tried to work at companies that were growing or changing. I volunteered to take the helm of projects that seemed difficult. Eventually, I managed my first portfolio. Above all, I recommend pushing yourself to maximize experiences that help you understand the business. Strive for positions that expose you to strategy. Also, remember that your expertise in project management can help you stand out from other portfolio manager candidates. You know how to measure success, and you have the discipline to run governance for a portfolio. Is it worth your while to strive for the PfMP credential at some point? In one word: yes. I believe it will come to be recognized as the mark of in-depth portfolio management skill and experience. Why do I think that? Well, back in 1993, when I earned my PMP, there were fewer than 1,500 people with that credential. Today, of course, more than half a million people have a PMP. The PfMP is just getting started, but we've already seen a 57 percent jump in certifications since its official launch last year. By definition, there will always be fewer portfolio managers than project managers in the world — but I see a bright future for this line of work. |
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If you're in the Northern Hemisphere right now, you may be dealing with inclement winter weather. That in turn means your local public officials are dealing with how to communicate during a crisis. Project practitioners can learn from them. Late last month in New York, New Jersey and the New England region in the United States, officials were tasked with preparing citizens for a snowstorm called "historic" before it arrived—but which ultimately spared New York City and neighboring New Jersey. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio had to defend the decisionto shut down the city's subway system due to snow for the first time in its 110-year history. Similarly, project managers must be aware of the downsides involved with communicating risks on fast-changing projects to stakeholders. If flagged risks don't materialize, we might find ourselves unable to gain cooperation at a later date.
Here are three communication rules of thumb, each corresponding to a project stage, to keep in mind when you have imperfect information about a project with constantly changing variables—but still must address stakeholders. 1. Plan ahead: One of the first rules of crisis management is to be fully prepared for a crisis.In New York City last month, we saw de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo get out early and explain that the forecast indicated the storm could be the largest in the city's history. Only 6 inches of snow ended up falling, but the city's leadership did have a good plan and did effectively prepare the population for the storm. What can practitioners take away from this? Depending on the type of project you are running, take a few moments to think about how you are going to communicate with your team in case of a problem or uncontrollable event occurring, even if it's just laying out the steps you need to take on the back of an envelope. 2. Have a clear message:When you are communicating in a variable or crisis situation for your project, you need to have a consistent message, even if you are delivering imperfect or changing information. Think about how the U.S. National Weather Service issues "advisories," "warnings" and "watches." Although some people can be confused by these terms, the service's definitions of them are distinct. As a project manager, you may want to put your stakeholder messages into three categories: best case, worst case and most likely case, for example. Choose whichever categories work for your project and clearly define them. Bottom line: Confidently communicate what you know and how it will impact the project and your stakeholders. 3. Review and adapt: Like all good project managers, you likely review best practices at the end of your project. If the project involved communicating in crisis—whether related to weather or a different kind of variable circumstance—it's especially important to take a few moments at the end to review what worked and what didn't. Like the planning and messaging stages noted above, the review doesn't need to be highly complex. These questions can elicit communications lessons learned: • How well did my plan allow me to begin communicating early in the crisis? • Was my message easy for all stakeholders to understand? • What about my communication delivery methods worked? What didn't work? • Did stakeholders respond to my message in the way that I wanted? These are just three approaches crisis communications. How have you overcome communication challenges driven by project crises or adverse situations in your organization? |
How to Think Like an Elite Project Management Professional
By Conrado Morlan For most of us, good isn't good enough — we want to be the best at what we do. Becoming an elite project management professional requires focus, drive and a willingness to learn from our role models, whether they are bosses, team members or co-workers performing very different functions in the organization. You may not possess all of their abilities, but some of the traits you admire in them are within you. Becoming an elite practitioner is partly about tapping into your hidden inner potential. I believe that a crucial part of professional development is developing a mindset that will unlock your abilities. To that end, I adapted the following mental strategies from The Champion's Mind: How Great Athletes Think, Train, and Thrive by Jim Afremow. Based on high-performance psychology research, these strategies will help you learn how to think, feel and act like one of the best. 1) See Success Imagine yourself at the end of the project, when the product or service has been delivered and the organization has achieved its strategic goals. Visualize the ideal scenario: a satisfied project team, optimized processes, and satisfied internal and external customers. This will help you define the optimal project execution and "turn on" success in your mindset. 2) Stay Positive You may be assigned to a project in an area in which you lack experience. Identify your deficiencies at the beginning of the project and define a strategy on how to address them — bring an expert to your project team, identify a mentor or train yourself. 3) Do Not Panic Projects are not a bed of roses. You will have to deal with changes in scope and risks, difficult teammates and resource constraints. Resilience is an important trait for project managers. Focus on the solution, not the problem. Dogged determination will help you reach your professional goals. 4) Be Confident When meeting the project board, what is your body language saying? Are you smiling? Research shows that "power posing" can positively affect the brain and might even have an impact on your chances for success. Adopt the pose of a powerful project management professional! 5) Evaluate Progress Assess yourself: How well are you emulating the behaviors of your role models? What did you do that was good? In which areas do you need to improve? What changes do you need to implement? This evaluation will give you perspective on how close or far you are from your goals. What are your strategies for taking your performance to the next level? What do you think sets the very best project management professionals apart from the rest? |


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Growers and distillers of Oregon's troubled peppermint industry hope that a not-so-new invention will help increase their crop's international competitiveness. Researchers are looking at how the humble microwave could be adapted to revolutionize the state's mint oil production process and greatly reduce the industry's operating costs. Currently, mint oil is extracted through a high-cost steaming process involving large boilers that run on expensive fuel. Rocky Lundy, executive director of the Mint Industry Research Council, says the combination of cheap foreign products from China and India along with uncertain fuel prices has hurt the state's competitiveness over the last 12 years. Bryan Ostlund of the Oregon Mint Commission says Oregon produces 25% of the nation's mint oil, roughly 2.5 million pounds, with an annual value of $50 million. Lundy says planted acreage of the crop in Oregon will increase 3% to 5% by 2010. Currently the state grows about 28,000 acres. But with a global appetite for the cheapest goods, experts say the state's industry must find a way to cut production costs in order to survive. Lundy says the current steam distillation system can account for 60% of the total production cost. "The idea of trying to find some more efficient form of distilling the oil has been around for years," says Lundy. That Holy Grail of mint oil distillation may be on the way, says Lundy. With help this summer from Oregon State University researcher David Hackleman, mint producers rented an industrial microwave unit, designed for textile production and drying dog food, and used it to distill the oil from batches of mint hay instead of using costly boilers. Lundy says the samples of the oil produced in the initial experiments easily met the quality standards expected of Oregon mint. However, further research will be conducted in North Carolina on the true energy efficiencies of the process. John Wendel, general manager of Albany-based RCB International, which buys mint from growers and sells to customers like Colgate, says over the past 10 years there has been pressure from large retailers such as Wal-Mart for cheaper products. The result has benefited overseas producers who have gained a strong foothold in the industry with Mentha arvensis, a lower-cost peppermint alternative blended with other oils. The alternative blend has chipped away at traditional mint production and Oregon's share of the market, says Wendel. "Arvensis affected us negatively," says mint grower Jim Cloud of Madras. "On the other hand, I can't blame [the customers] really." But if the research on the microwave system proves positive, Lundy says within five years the new process could give Oregon its edge back. "Last year, I would've said [Oregon mint] had an uphill battle," Lundy says. "Now that hill is not so steep." WILLIAM E. CRAWFORD |
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I've interviewed Arnold Schwarzenegger a few times over the years, and always found him, as you might expect, a supremely confident character – a man completely in charge of his life and destiny, and extraordinarily comfortable in his own muscle-bound skin.
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'Everything was perfect,' he sighed, 'and all of a sudden I wiped out everything that I cherished most, and what I considered my greatest accomplishment – my marriage, my family.'
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I looked at this huge yet undeniably
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of people trampling on you now.
'I think the contrition you've shown is sincere, and I wish you the very best in sorting things out with Maria.'
He reached forward and shook my hand.
'Thank you. Thank you very much.'
My CNN show is being pre-empted
tomorrow night, due to the first Presidential debate, so I treated my
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We ended up in a downtown karaoke dive bar at 3am, where I was cajoled
(it didn't take much) into singing a duet of Islands In The Stream, the
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'Kenny would be proud of you,' said one of my researchers loyally, albeit stifling raucous laughter.
'You're not going to believe who we've booked for tonight's show,' announced my producer this morning.
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Eight hours later, having regaled the great man with details of my impersonation 48 hours earlier, I sang a second duet of Islands In The Stream with Kenny, on air – this time with me playing the Dolly role.
'How did I do?' I asked him nervously afterwards.
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Coincidentally, one of these 'pals', Private Eye editor Ian Hislop – who had, of course, found time in his busy schedule to give his own generous 'he's a moron' views on me to Vanity Fair – was interviewed on The One Show the other night, and asked when he last shed tears.
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Bruno's intentions - with what I must confess is a most entertaining book, called Bruno Tonioli: My Story - seemed even more sinister: to end my marriage
'What's your address? I want to send you my autobiography,' emailed that naughty Strictly judge Bruno Tonioli.
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More from Piers Morgan for The Mail on Sunday...
- PIERS MORGAN: I found Eddie Redmayne outside clutching his Oscar and beaming like a litter of Cheshire cats. 'Can I hold it?' I asked.'It's the nearest I'll get' 26/02/15
- PIERS MORGAN: I don't normally discriminate about the quality of my fans, but in Assad's case I may have to make an exception 19/02/15
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He recounts the first time we met, at Royal Ascot, in Simon Cowell's private box.
His account starts well: 'I was introduced to Piers, and understandably I was a bit apprehensive about him at first, but we soon hit it off and I ended up spending all day with him and his then girlfriend (now wife) Celia. What a character! I found him funny, intelligent and charming company…'
I was beginning to really warm to Bruno's tome at this point.
'Though,' he continued, 'I was even more struck by Celia. She was beautiful.'
I nodded. Then, the sting in the tail.
'I don't have a self-censorship button, especially with a glass of fizz inside me, so when she was introduced as his other half I blurted out something typically inappropriate. "Oh my God," I said. "But you're so beautiful, what are you doing with him?"'
Hmm. It got worse.
'And that's when Celia delivered the best line ever. "Bruno, some people do charity. I do Piers."'
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Gegard Mousasi at Strikeforce
The last time Gegard Mousasi stepped into the Strikeforce cage, he suffered only the third loss of his career in 34 attempts, and in the process lost the promotion's 205-pound title.
Since then, however, he's rebounded, winning Dream's Light Heavyweight Grand Prix and re-establishing himself as one of the best fighters in the division.
"I think I've recovered from the loss and am in the right place mentally again," he told MMAWeekly.com. "After a loss it's always difficult, but I think I bounced back from that loss and I can continue to try to win my fights.
"Every time, I'm trying to be a better fighter, to improve my training, try to get more technical, get mentally better and fight smarter."
After defeating K-1 heavyweight champion Kyotaro at Dynamite on New Year's Eve, Mousasi thought his return to MMA would come sooner, but delays ensued, adding further difficulty to his regimen.
"After a while, your motivation is gone," he admitted. "Dieting and sleeping well all the time, getting up, and training gets difficult after doing it for a long time. I have a lot of motivation to win this fight, so it's not a problem, but training was difficult, yes."
Mousasi's return will come part of Strikeforce's April 9 fight card in San Diego, against Keith Jardine, who is stepping in for an injured Mike Kyle.
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"I said I'd fight anybody, maybe even at heavyweight. They asked me who I would like to fight, but I told them it would be difficult to find somebody to challenge in one week, but they came up with Keith Jardine and we accepted it."
Jardine not only allows Mousasi to keep a similar game plan to the one he had in place for Kyle, it also allows him to gauge himself against competition he may face down the line.
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"I would like to thank everyone for helping me in preparation for this fight, and Guus van der Meer of Powerplate for helping me out with my nutrition and my training schedule," concluded Mousasi.
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"Betrayed" is a film that left me in turmoil, torn between the strong sympathies I felt for the characters and the fundamental doubts I had about the plot. Here were people I believed in, involved in a story that no one could believe in. And that kind of conflict raises basic questions, such as: How could the characters themselves, who seem so intelligent, believe their own story? That's the trickiest thing about creating movie characters who can think for themselves.
The movie opens in harvest season, with Debra Winger as an itinerant farm laborer who gets a few day's work running the combine on a big Iowa farm owned by a divorced man (Tom Berenger). There is a certain chemistry between them right from the start, and when she establishes a rapport with his two children, they begin to fall in love. Berenger asks Winger to stay on his farm when the harvest is over, and she does.
But "Betrayed" is not a love story. It is an undercover thriller, and we quickly learn that Winger is an FBI agent and that Berenger is suspected of being part of a secret right-wing terrorist organization that is responsible for the murder of a left-wing Chicago talk show host. How can this be true? How can this honest, open-faced farmer from a world of Sunday church services and apple pie be a neo-Nazi killer? At first Winger doesn't believe it, and she tells her FBI contacts that they are after the wrong man. But then, after she falls more deeply in love with Berenger, he decides to trust her with his secrets. His first wife left because she could not endure his world of secret paranoia, but he realizes he must be honest with Winger because he loves her. His desire to share his hidden life creates some of the weirdest scenes in the film, because there is such an ironic tension between the ultraright paramilitary organization he belongs to and the pop psychology of his language when he explains that they must be open with each other and share the things that are important.
The plot, as it unfolds, is cleverly constructed by writer Joe Eszterhas (who crafted the diabolical double-reverses in "Jagged Edge") and director Costa-Gavras (who has specialized in clandestine right-wing groups in movies like "Z" and "Missing"). Winger and Berenger form a sympathetic couple right from the start, and even well into the story there is a residual feeling that this Iowa farmer cannot be as two-faced and racist as he seems. Then, as the film's center of gravity shifts, it becomes mostly Winger's story, and she is wonderful at creating sympathy as Costa-Gavras turns up the heat, trapping her between love and danger.
This is essentially the same dilemma that Eszterhas created for Glenn Close in "Jagged Edge." Can she trust the man she loves, or is he, as all evidence seems to indicate, a two-faced killer? In that film, the audience did not know the answer until the last moment, but in "Betrayed" the answer is obvious from fairly early on (even the title is a giveaway). The thriller doesn't hinge on Berenger's behavior, but on how Winger will save herself from almost certain exposure. And as that level of the plot unfolded, I began to have problems.
I know that there are right-wing paramilitary groups in America. I know that members of one of them were recently convicted of the murder of Alan Berg, the liberal Denver talk show host whose murder inspired this story. I didn't question that level of the story. And even when "Betrayed" went out of its way to exaggerate the contradictions in the Berenger character, I accepted that as part of the job of thrillermaking.
What bothered me were two other elements. One was the heavy-handed way in which the plot sets up Winger for danger. An FBI man, played by John Heard, becomes adept at being in the wrong place at the wrong time and acting carelessly. And the stupidity of his character would have been irritating even if the movie didn't also create an old romance between Winger and Heard so that jealousy could be added to police work. Over and over, I found myself asking why the Winger character, who is so intelligent, makes such stupid decisions in the film, inspiring her own betrayal.
Another element that bothered me much more was a particularly disgusting and violent scene in which Berenger and his right-wing buddies capture a black man and then stage a "hunt" in which they chase him through the forest at night and finally kill him. It is reprehensible to put a sequence like that in a film intended as entertainment, no matter what the motives of the characters or the alleged importance to the plot. This sequence is as disturbing and cynical as anything I've seen in a long time - a breach of standards so disturbing that it brings the film to a halt from which it barely recovers. I imagine that Costa-Gavras, whose left-wing credentials are impeccable, saw this scene as necessary to his indictment of the racist underworld he was exposing. But "Betrayed" is not a small, brave political statement like "Z," it is a Hollywood entertainment with big stars, and vile racist manhunts have no place in it.
More than anything else, "Betrayed" is finally just very deeply confused. Costa-Gavras must have considered it a political film, Eszterhas undoubtedly saw it as a thriller, and Winger and Berenger, to give them full credit, interpret it as the complicated human stories of their characters. That's why the film creates its turmoil; in the center of confusion, sloppy plot developments and the conflicting motivations of the filmmakers, there are two performances of such power that the characters become real, and sympathetic, despite everything.
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I looked at threads but didn't see this mentioned. Apologies if this is a duplicate. I was just watching FSNE Sports Tonight and they had some video clips from the game. After Vrabel sacked Rivers, he did a very emphasized energetic Merriman lights out routine. Colvin did it in the bench area facing the stands with a really angry energy. Then he turned around and did it facing the field. Even Wilfork got into the act !! He was in the bench area and his demeanor was NOT pleasant either. While it doesn't seem to have been reported as a general attitude of the Pats players, it sure looks like many on the team were really p..sed at Merriman in particular. Fascinating.
It's good to see NFL players police their own IMHO. The Chargerettes are just upset that it was "Their Cheater" who got called out.
If I were on the Pats' team I would be *very* upset at any opposing player woofing at a "pep rally" that he is going to "punch Tom Brady in the mouth". That would light my fuse big time, and I would relish the chance to put that moron in his place. I think that is what the Pats' actions and demeanors reflected. It's more of a testimony from the Pats to Brady as a man and a team mate, as it is to his playing skills. //
Listening to Peter King yesterday, essentially he said both teams were wrong, he felt that the Chargers were more so than the Pats though, he also spoke of many incidents where this type of behavior happened.. it is more of a story than it needs to be.
Actually, WERE there reports about this DURING the game? I was just focused on the post game celebration and thought everyone else was. Regardless, enough talk about sore losers.
Vrabel, Colvin, Wilfork--guys playing with an edge. I like it-a team can't win without guys like these. Football is an in-your-face game.


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Houston's housing market closed out 2013 — its best year on record — with its 31st consecutive month of positive home sales and its lowest inventory level of all time.
However, home sales are expected to slow in 2014, the Houston Association of Realtors reported Tuesday.
After slowing slightly in November, home sales rebounded a bit in December with 5,813 single-family homes sold, up 14.3 percent from December 2012.
And after dropping below a four-month supply level a year ago, the market's inventory continued to shrink. December's 2.6-month supply — the lowest level ever recorded locally — was down 29 percent from the 3.7-month supply recorded in December 2012. Additionally, total active listings were still down significantly — 16 percent from a year ago — and total pending sales were up only 1.1 percent from last year.
Meanwhile, both the median price and the average price for single-family homes hit their highest levels for a December in Houston. The median price increased 10.9 percent year over year to $188,500, and the average price hit $265,017, up 10.3 percent from December 2012.
For the full-year 2013, single-family home sales were up 17.4 percent to 73,232, and total property sales jumped 18.8 percent to 88,059. For single-family homes, the average sales price increased 10.3 percent to $248,591, and the median price increased 9.4 percent to $180,000.
Overall, the total dollar volume of sales in 2013 soared 30.2 percent to $20.89 billion.
"The Houston housing market had its best year on record in 2013, and those of us who work in real estate have never been busier," HAR Chair Chaille Ralph, with Heritage Texas Properties, said in a statement. "Stewart Title Chief Economist and former HAR Chairman Dr. Ted C. Jones forecasts positive sales to continue in the new year, but at a slower pace. He anticipates about a 5 percent increase in home sales and a 6 percent gain in pricing. However, all that hinges on having homes to sell, and the local inventory is running extremely low."
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