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Stacy Goff is the president of ProjectExperts and contributor to Project Management Circa 2025.
Despite the technological innovations in the software industry over the past 40 years, there has been a noticeable lack of progress in the project management software industry -- neither in increasing the size of the market or the penetration of project management functions into enterprises. Organizations have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to obtain software licenses and train their employees. The return on investment has been great for organizations that manage it well. However, many organizations waste the investment in a "flavor of the year" approach, concerned more with obtaining the latest and greatest in project management software than understanding the rigor needed to apply it appropriately. For example, some project-oriented enterprises use a range of desktop tools, content management systems, and project or portfolio software, together with databases, to execute projects. Others use only desktop tools. Their schedules are "good enough to get executive approval" but are seldom used as a baseline for tracking purposes. The harsh reality is the majority of the existing market is still not effectively using 20-25 year-old technology, and unless something changes, the average enterprise in 2025, even with innovation, market pressures and significant effort, will still be struggling to adopt today's leading technologies.
Successful project managers should always consider four factors when considering project management software. Technology is the last step in the process, which should be executed in the following sequence:
- Enabling Policies. The tools will not be used effectively if policies do not encourage and support their use.
- Responsibilities. If key stakeholders do not perform, the tools are worthless.
- Processes. Establish clear, scalable and flexible processes for the project work to be done.
- Technology. Select, install, and coach in the use of project management tools.
An increasing number of project management software vendors have visions and plans for continuing advancement in the project management software industry, yet, few enterprises, such as government agencies and corporations, take advantage of the power of all the portfolio, program, and project management software tools they already have. Adding more features and capabilities will not be the driver for advancement. The challenge of the next several decades, rather, is to maximize the benefits from the proper use of the tools that exist today, and then add the project management competencies needed to embrace the advancements to come.
Project Portfolio Management
Project portfolio management (PPM) has been around for years, and it will continue to increase its functions and audience for the foreseeable future. Separating the PPM business functions from the technology is a difficult but important task, as few organizations have properly identified a job classification and clear responsibilities for a portfolio manager. Instead, in many companies, portfolio management is administered by a part-time committee of managers and/or executives, with support from staff.
The first step in maximizing a portfolio is to decide how each project relates to enterprise strategies, operations and a multi-year funding process. On the technology side, tools for PPM first emerged in the 1980s, with a focus on aggregating cross-project plans for their common resource use. Many high-end project management software tools supported that aggregation, either with additional modules, or within the tools themselves. Soon PPM vendors began adding prioritization, risk management, dashboard indicators and portfolio tracking functions. Today there are a multitude of PPM vendors, many of which will see a massive increase both in their market breadth and penetration between now and 2025. For example, outside the U.S. Spider Project is seeing increasing uptake from construction to petroleum, to other serious project-oriented industries. Microsoft Project, Enterprise Server, and their suite of increasingly powerful collaborative tools do a stellar job of targeting the roles and information demands of unique stakeholders, and the progeny of the original PC-based Primavera solution is still a preferred leader for many enterprises. In-demand functions of the 2025 project-oriented enterprise will likely include:
- A more-complete enterprise portfolio that integrates the management of projects with operations and business functions with the knowledgebase and information from all areas for improved executive decision-making.
- Cash flow and human resources management across the enterprise, including the prioritization, modeling and provisioning of project, process and on-demand support staff (often a bottleneck in today's enterprise)
- Multi-year workplace projections and the budgeting to support them, including needed capital investments
- Modeling and simulation to show the trade-offs between combinations of proposed efforts and their benefits
- Calculation of net present value of planned initiatives, plus follow-up to assure that benefit realization occurs
- Inclusion and key consideration of otherwise separate project management activities and tools within the portfolio, including parametric estimating and risk management
- Process and template reuse and metrics capture for improved estimating, bidding, risk management and project performance
Virtual Teams and Social Networks
A range of future innovations promise to improve the adoption rate and increase the size of the project management software market. One such innovation is the combination of virtual teams with social networks. Bringing together the tools that support this collaboration and communication can reap great results for those who apply them. Starting with voice over Internet protocol (VOIP)-based Skype conference calls and web-conferencing, and supported by wikis or SharePoint sites for content management, some of the tools are known for their flexibility and power, others for their accessibility and ease of use. Increasingly, teams will combine these tools with free or fee-based social networks that will help virtual teams work, research, network, relax (where that is within the boundaries of the culture) and achieve together. The net result will be a massive increase in the size of the market audience that uses project management software.
Mastery of Real-time Time Tracking
Time tracking has long been a frustrating factor for project teams; too many team members view time sheets as one of their greatest scourges. The next release of project management calendaring systems will do more than accept and notify project managers about project assignments, due dates, ongoing work responsibilities and other scheduled events. Under each team member's control, it will also record all project activities against those and all other events during the day, resulting in a unified phone system, calendar and car link with a PCD (personal communication device, a cell phone-sized supercomputer) to collect and maintain activity information. These systems will also track interruptions, recording them with a charge number and the context of the interruption, so project managers can later reduce unnecessary interruptions. At the end of the day, summary information will "pop up," complete with all needed charge numbers. Upon approval by the project manager, all information brokers, including project cost, status, earned value, activity completions and payroll, will receive postings in the right locations, with the right codes.
Significant advances will result from real-time tracking, driving the need to develop honest schedules a team can actually track against. From this advancement, the penetration of project management software will increase significantly. Earned value management (EVM) will become much more useful, as the window of currency moves from one month after the work to one day; in addition, the information will be much more accurate and reliable. Managers will make better decisions much faster, and project success rates will soar.
Dashboards and Project Intelligence
Project dashboards have been around since the 1980s, but aside from the leaders, too many enterprises were basing them on poor tracking against even poorer project plans. Even worse, many focused on easy-to-measure trailing indicators, rather than more actionable leading ones, opening the door for smarter project information management. As a result, project dashboards are moving from simple time and cost trailing data indicators, to EVM, which uses ratios and trends to indicate possible futures. In addition, some organizations today are offering leading, actionable information, a trend that is sure to continue over the next 15 years. The difference is much like driving by looking out your rear-view mirror -- you only know where you have been, and the trend seems straight -- compared to looking out the windshield so you can avoid hitting the car stalled in front of you. Highly competent project managers have great front vision, in addition to useful rear view vision. These elements of actionable information include estimate assumptions, risk threats and opportunities, issues requiring action, successes and failures and lessons learned. This Project Intelligence recurs in phase after phase of the same project, and project after project, and is responsible, together with changes in scope, for the majority of changes in trailing indicators. Further, leading indicators are and will increasingly be shown on dashboards in the future.
Project Management Absorbed into Enterprise Systems
Most of today's project management software functions are being absorbed by one of the enterprise software management domains: ERP, CRM, SCM and PLM. As a result, a huge data management problem is likely to develop in the next few years, and just as industries run in cycles, the cycle of centralized management systems will come back en vogue. The end result will be stronger Project Management Offices (PMOs) and centralization that will boost the interest in career development for all players, both in project management and other skilled disciplines. It will also make more evident those who are not yet competent in their roles and reduce the number of projects, as organizations realize the folly of trying to run too many projects concurrently with too few team members, a common project management problem in many organizations.
An interesting convergence will occur in the near future as project management software tools begin to merge into other software toolsets. For example, Estimate Pro recently became a part of a software development suite. Clearly, integrated software suites are the new wave of the future, as they encompass development functions ranging from initial project strategies, estimating and risk analysis, to requirements elicitation and iterative solution modeling (though coding may disappear with increased rewards for reuse and intelligent agents), to defect tracking and system configuration management.
Cloud-based and Open Source Software
Some of the best software to support project managers over the next decade will improve both processes and timing. The emergence of cloud-based or Software as a Service (SaaS) project/portfolio tools such as Daptiv, Serena, and others has largely impacted the market, except in rural and undeveloped areas, where there is no reliable electricity or strong internet connection. The open source movement is also having an effect on the industry, as project managers can either download a free version of Project Workbench, which powered many mid-range projects in the 1980s, or utilize OpenProj, a free alternative to commercial tools. Open source software is appealing to project managers in the short-term because it drastically reduces total cost of ownership and provides a stimulus for the commercial software industry to keep innovating and improving the value of their offerings. Longer term, it grows the market significantly because those who outgrow the free versions are more inclined to trade up to commercial tools. For example, free versions of Mind Mapping software, which is especially useful in facilitating team development of work breakdown structures (WBS), popularized the use of the method in projects. A commercial version that was first in the market benefitted from the increased interest by offering advanced features, such as "round tripping" the WBS to/from Microsoft Project.
Executive Transformation
The aforementioned changes in the project management software industry will affect not only project managers in the future, but executives and organizations. The greatest project management challenge for many executives is to get timely, actionable project management information. Over the last 20 years, enterprise executives have been increasingly frustrated by the lack of visibility into an increasing proportion of their enterprise portfolio. Many have responded by inserting more layers of middle managers between them and the "problem." Future changes will improve visibility, especially into leading indicators of project success, coupled with the integration of projects and programs, operations and financials into one true enterprise portfolio management system. New software developments will also likely present the needed information in a more cohesive style and format, achieving a level of detail needed by the individual executive, thus allowing them to bring to fruition their piercingly clear vision and enabling better and more efficient decisions.
Enterprise Change Management
Entire organizations will also see change within their structures, strategies, prioritization processes and reward systems. As the practice of project management becomes the universal core management discipline, organizations will learn to better manage change, as they broaden the skill, experience, discretion and rewards for talent, and accelerate the flow of actionable information. The enterprise collaborative network will do away with the rigid and inflexible hierarchy, resulting in energized talent that will result in mutual project successes.
Project management is the discipline of societal change, and project management software can ease and empower that change. The future of project management software will rely on new players that establish innovations, in addition to some larger, well-known players that will continue to serve project managers. However, the industry still has far to go to fulfill its potential. A combination of the right tools and processes with team members who possess the necessary competencies is the best hope for organizations who wish to advance their position.


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"This is the second time I've worked with Framestore, and again, it was an absolute pleasure. They have a truly talented group of artists and a dedicated production team and, from the outset, I was impressed with not only their creative solutions, but also attention to detail and the overall quality of work." Overall VFX Supervisor Chris Townsend
Directed by Shane Black, Marvel's third big screen instalment of the Iron Man series sees Tony Stark's world destroyed at his enemy's hands. What follows is no story of politics, "just good old-fashioned revenge" as Stark puts it. In just eight weeks Framestore delivered 113 shots for the film, working on Iron Man himself and helping set the look for one of the movie's key effects – Extremis.
Extremis is a drug that confers formidable strength, but gets red hot as it rushes around the body, visibly steaming as it flows through veins and arteries deep below the skin. Much of Framestore's work on the film came in perfecting the Extremis look for the skull, but other shots required a digital takeover for one of Iron Man's enemies and the creation of a full CG fire. To do all of that under the constant flux of the edit and on such a small timescale was a fantastic achievement.
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That's the film's central question but, in one scene at least, it's Framestore behind the suit. "The whole team was super motivated by doing Iron Man" says CG Supervisor Alexis Wajsbrot, and having just finished work on Alfonso Cuarón's eagerly anticipated space epic, Gravity, it was a smooth process:
"We were given the Iron Man asset from Digital Domain and within a week had it looking great in our pipeline" says Producer Richard Graham. "Part of the legacy of Gravity is that all of our Arnold shaders for metals and hard surfaces are really well matured, and there were no difficulties in look development."
"We'd got well into the Extremis work before we started on Iron Man" explains Lighting Supervisor Stuart Penn. "There was a lot interactive lighting between him and the Extremis effect – at one point the enemy grabs him and heats up the suit – so we see heat glow and sparks as the suit is short-circuited. The level of interaction needed the track of the arm to be really good."
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Other facilities had already worked on the effect of Extremis on limbs, but many of Framestore's shots focussed on the skull, which required a great deal of look development. Pleasingly, Framestore's skull shots seem to have set the look for the effect across the film.
"The work by other facilities had been done on the arms where there was quite a bit of structure to play with – for example silhouetting the bones and making light wrap around them" says VFX Supervisor Mark Bakowski. But whereas the arm was anatomically accommodating, the skull was less obliging. "Finding that formula was the most difficult part," continues Mark, "the skull is very densely packed and we had to thin that out a little bit to sell it."
"A lot of work went into making Extremis visually appealing" says Lead Compositing Supervisor Chris Zeh. "It went through a lot of different concepts and it was nice to hear that our Extremis effect seems to be, out of all the facilities working on it, the one Marvel sent to the others."
Stripping back from a dense, anatomical skull (which would simply look like a light bulb if you illuminated it) toward something more art directed, the team arrived at an effect that was both believable and interesting. "The main brief was to make it look as if it had volume, as if you were looking deep into the body, not like a something painted on the skin" says Stuart.
To make sure this was achieved, the whole anatomy of the characters was modelled – from skeletons and muscles right down to blood vessels and capillaries, which resulted in some super heavy rigs (combated by setting up a pipeline that meant each element could be dealt with separately). It was also a big task to deform that amount of geometry and Framestore developed its own deformer to make sure everything would fit inside the skin.
"After rigging and modelling we moved onto tracking, which was a big challenge as there was body and facial tracking in every shot" explains Alexis. "We started with camera track, body track and facial deformation, using 3D equalizer. The trackers did amazing work in a very short space of time. The team was quite small yet they tracked over a hundred shots!"
From there the FX team began controlling the movement of Extremis by flowing particles along the veins and arteries. "This was very choreographed and art directed, so it wasn't easy! We needed to have full control on particle speed, flow and direction. That was a set-up done in Houdini by Selcuk Ergen (Lead FX TD) and his team. By the end of the show it was just pressing buttons – it was very successful."
The flow of Extremis is so hot it emits steam, something created by the Maya team, led by Horacio Mendoza, using a fluid simulation. "The challenge was the deadline" says Alexis, "it was maximum two days per shot for the steam, so we had to have a very strong set up in order to do fast simulation."
Lighting obviously played a huge part in revealing the depth Marvel were after. Point clouds were used to drive lighting internally beneath the skin, which was refractive, so the deeper beneath the skin the light was, the blurrier it was.
One of the main challenges Framestore had to face was to be able to reproduce the Extremis effect on four different characters and seven different sequences. The full capacity of the Framestore pipeline was used to create a small factory so that, just by just pressing a few buttons, FX TDs and Lighters were able to update their shots if the model, track or even the look was changed.
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This weekend break, many of us will be commemorating Easter, or joining buddies for an Easter party. Here is a primer on the significance of standard springtime florals that make terrific Easter gifts. Lily: This is one of the most preferred plant symbol for Easter Flower as lilies have actually been stated many times in the Bible. Gifting a lily is stated to indicate that you are very pleased to be acquainted with the recipient, while gifting a yellow lily represents your guidance to live for the moment. (BTW, tomorrow's post will be on Easter lilies, so examine back to find out more.).
Daffodil: Another preferred Easter flower with a charming connection, giving a bunch of daffodils to an additional implies that you consider that individual the only true love in your life. It could likewise indicate unrequited passion. Tulip: This is the Easter flower for enthusiasts, as a tulip is intended to be a carrier of passion and love. A red tulip says ""I enjoy you""; a yellow tulip indicates you are hopelessly crazy with the recipient; and also an arrangement of diverse colors implies ""your eyes are beautiful"". Hyacinth: In general, a hyacinth represents ""comeliness"". But, various colors mean various points. Purple indicates ""please forgive me""; white indicates the recipient is beautiful or that you will certainly wish that individual (seems to me to be an issue if the recipient assumes the incorrect definition!); yellow suggests envy; as well as pink or red means ""let's play!"".
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MLB WORLD SERIES: PHILLIES v RAYS
October 29, 2008
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PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA: Game Five (Cont.)
Q. This is treating it almost like a new game. Can you talk a bit about the differences of this pregame, this will be a very different approach to a very short ballgame?
CHARLIE MANUEL: Yeah, this is definitely a different approach. Of course we're going to hit for Hamels and like we'll see, I'm sure, that they'll have Balfour on the mound, probably, and we'll see what happens. And I'll decide to send somebody up there to hit. And we'll see the game kick off from there.
And then we've got the top of our lineup up. And we'll start trying to score some runs. And Madson will start the game for us. We've got Romero and Lidge, Durbin and Eyre, that's how we'll play it.
Q. I know technically Madson is only pitching in the seventh tonight, but you've got to think his biological clock will tell him it's the first inning, since he's pitching at 8:37. Do you think that could affect anything, kind of the nature of this game?
CHARLIE MANUEL: He's got experience, and a couple of years ago he was a starter. He got in like 20-some games as a starter. And like I said, he's got experience. He's been throwing the ball real good. I think from a mindset he also knows that, we just got actually three innings of baseball for our bullpen to pitch.
So it's kind of a mindset thing, but I think when you look at it he's got to get three outs or four outs or whatever, five outs, whatever. However long we leave him in.
Q. In weather like this, what kind of challenges does that pose to your players?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I'd say biggest thing, sometimes it's real cold, the ball is kind of hard to grip and it's kind of slippery, and you've got to keep your hands warm enough, the pitcher does. Before you execute pitches and feel free to throw the ball, of course.
From a hitting standpoint, you seem like you're tight and it's cold and when you hit the ball a lot of times your hands sting. And people say, well, you've got gloves on. Well, believe me, if you don't hit the ball on the fat part of the bat, you get a sting from it. It can be uncomfortable hitting in cold weather, but at the same time it can be uncomfortable throwing a ball, too. Both sides, they've got the same problems. And how big the problem is depends on how warm you can stay and how loose you can stay.
Nowadays you've got a lot of stuff, like the clothing is different and it's very up-to-date as far as like keeping the body heat in. And you can do things like put baby oil on your body and stuff like that when you get ready to play.
Q. Kind of a three-part question: You talked yesterday about Cole not being able to grip the ball and the weather having an effect on him in pitching. Did getting hit in the hand also affect how he pitched?
CHARLIE MANUEL: That was his pitching hand, I'm sure it had something to do with it.
Q. Is there any swelling now? And if he needed to be used in the next three days, could you use him?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I haven't looked at it today, really. I haven't talked to him, but when I do I'll look at his hand. I haven't really looked at it. He got hit right on the big finger.
Q. You obviously worked for a lot of bosses over the years, what makes Pat Gillick unique and what will you miss about him?
CHARLIE MANUEL: He stays up on his job. Like he's definitely a hands-on kind of guy. He still believes in the old scouting system. Actually, being a manager I don't really get to see him as much as like the people in the upstairs level do. I get to see him in meetings and things, of course, and in our discussions.
But he definitely, I would say he's a hands-on guy. And the success he's had everywhere he's been kind of speaks for itself. And the job he's done here definitely plays a big role in where we are at.
Q. What do you think about the notion that there's somehow destiny on the Rays' side, and that it was advanced by the fact that they wriggled out of something in Game 5 here? And also do you feel you have an advantage now because you have extra outs here and a strong bullpen?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I wouldn't trade positions. So I guess I feel like I have an advantage. That's kind of how I look at it. Destiny is one thing, but if they're destined, we want to definitely fight through destiny (laughter). That's about all I can tell you.
Q. How crazy have the last two days been for you and for your team, this whole situation?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I think that once the game got called and we got out of the clubhouse, and if you stop and think and look where we're at, we're still sitting in a very good position. And we've controlled our destiny. I said this yesterday, I think, we've controlled our destiny all year long and we've still got control of it. You won't see us cry or bitch and moan if we don't get the job done. Because we're planning on getting it done. And that's not an option. So that's how I look at it. That's how we look at it.
Q. Given the weather the World Series keeps running into the last few years, should any consideration be given to shorten the regular season so the World Series can get done by mid-October?
CHARLIE MANUEL: You know, I leave that up to people that are, what do you call it, higher up than me or has more to do with that than I. I'd like to see, I don't know, the season is 162 games, they shortened it before to 154.
And I look at it as it depends on where you're playing. If you're going to play in the east, of course you're going to run into it some weather, or you play in Colorado or something like that. If you play in Arizona or Florida or California, more than likely the season is fine. Where you're playing definitely plays a role in it.
Q. Shane Victorino has been in the middle of so many big plays in the postseason. Is there something about his makeup that makes it more likely that he can succeed in a setting like this?
CHARLIE MANUEL: Yeah, well, Victorino, first of all, he's got a lot of talent. For a little guy he's strong and he can do a lot of things. He plays centerfield, so he's in a lot of traffic and in a lot of things that goes on in the game. At the plate he's a switch-hitter. When I got him in the six hole, he seemed to come up definitely with more guys on base. And the type of player that he is, he gets to swing the bat more there instead of having to worry about or concentrate on playing situational baseball and moving runners and things. So I think his talent definitely shows up in the middle of our lineup offensively.
But, yeah, he's definitely capable of stepping up and having the kind of game that definitely can carry you. He's that kind of a player.
Q. I'm assuming you're expecting to see David Price. First of all, is that accurate? And, two, when? How early do you expect to see David Price?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I think we're going to find out real early, you know. He came in against us in Florida, of course, and he went through our left-hand hitters twice. So like I figure that -- and evidently they've definitely gained confidence in him there. And I can thing that we're going to see him.
Q. Just back to the way you talked about how certain places you wouldn't run into it. What would be your feelings about having the World Series seven days or seven games, nine games, all in one neutral site, warm weather, dome kind of place?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I would have to think about that and get more information on it and everything, before -- I haven't had time to think about something like that, really. I understand what you're saying about having it in a neutral place where it's warm weather, like Arizona or Florida or something like that, or maybe even rotating places, but I think, you want to know the truth, I'd rather have it home for the Phillies fans to get us to see us play in Philadelphia, on the turns that we play those games. And I'm sure Tampa probably feels the same way. But there again, you have to ask them. I think from a World Series standpoint, I think it should stay in your city.
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Mario Super Sluggers stars the ever-lovable Mario and his crew of friends. It builds on the social-gaming fun and movements people learned in Wii Sports and turns them into a full-fledged baseball game that can be played by every member of the household. Players make a throwing motion with the Wii Remote controller to pitch the baseball and make a swinging motion to swing at the pitch. The game boasts more than 30 playable Nintendo characters and all the madness of a Mario sports game. Just like Mario Kart Wii, it bridges the gap between experienced players and those new to the Wii console, with fun challenges and beautiful graphics.
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It's funny how, when a product is widespread enough, it seems to taste only like itself. Kraft Mac 'n Cheese, for instance? The orange goo isn't particularly cheeselike; it just tastes like blue-box mac. Oreos don't really taste like chocolate or vanilla; they taste like Oreos, twistable and dunkable.
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This weekend, the Georgia Dome will be hosting the SEC Championship Game against LSU and Georgia. The championship game will kick off at 4:00 p.m. The winner of this matchup will secure the title of 2011 SEC Champion and may be a contender in one of the better end of season bowl games.
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LOS ANGELES - Urban renewal is one of those clichés you hear about at election time. Everyone talks about it, and most people think we need it, but not everyone knows what it is or what to do about it.
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As president of Golden Boy Partners, Jackson is actively seeking real estate investment opportunities in high-density, inner-city areas where his company can build new housing, retail centers, and job producing industrial properties that will give new life to underserved communities.
The company is named after one of the founding partners, the "Golden Boy," champion boxer Oscar de la Hoya. De la Hoya has built a successful boxing promotion business and sponsored numerous charitable organizations in Latino neighborhoods. For the fighter, this is a chance to give back to the community through a meaningful and well thought out strategy. Another founding partner is John Long, a member of the UCLA Anderson Board of Visitors, founding chairman of the Ziman Center for Real Estate at UCLA, and founder and chairman of Highridge Partners, an international real estate investment firm.
According to Jackson, his task is to "identify real estate projects in America's growing urban environments and build an organization to execute on these opportunities. Right now we are focused on mixed-use developments and workforce housing. We believe density, when appropriately used, will allow us to deliver a great product in areas that need them most."
Jackson was originally admitted to UCLA Anderson in '98. But he passed up that opportunity to form a start-up company with a co-worker from Disney. Jackson only recently came back to finish his MBA at Anderson. Upon graduating in '04, Highridge Partners offered him the opportunity to run a yet to be created company and focus on development in the underserved and rapidly growing Latino markets.
"Golden Boy Partners is the result of a new strategy at Highridge Partners. We believe there is tremendous opportunity in America's inner cities, many of which are increasingly Latino. As the opportunity became clear, it made sense to partner with longtime Highridge friend Oscar de la Hoya," Jackson said.
A large part of Golden Boy Partners' strategy is working with smaller cities in Southern California, many of which have not seen meaningful new development for many years. "We have built great relationships with smaller cities, which are often easier to work with than larger ones," Jackson said. "With smaller, cities, we are able to work with the community and city staff to tailor a project to their needs, and deliver it on a very quick timeline. We see a lot of opportunities in cities with as few as 100,000 residents. These cities are increasingly open to smart density and mixed-use projects."
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"A typical project for us, and one we have underway, is the development of 200 market rate workforce condominiums in Los Angeles County," Jackson said. "These homes will provide local families an opportunity to purchase their first home; all developed without any city subsidies. This might not seem unique," he added, "especially given today's hot real estate market, but this city has not had new residential development in more than 20 years."
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Supermodel Helena Christensen has defended pregnant reality TV star Kim Kardashian against criticism over her recent weight gain, branding the negative comments "sacrilegious."
Kardashian, who is expecting her first child with her rapper beau Kanye West this summer, has been blasted in the media for her changing body shape and her maternity fashion choices, and Christensen has been left aghast by the way she has been treated by the press.
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"Whatever else the tabloid-media feel a sick need to spew out of their venomous bowels, let that be their lame choice. But there should be some moral compass. It doesn't matter who the woman is or what she does. No one should ever be publicly judged for their body, but to attack an expecting mother is sacrilegious and just plain wrong. A pregnant woman should not be criticized for her shape, period!!"


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On top of that, When I talk about shopping experience earlier, I am the one make decision very quickly. Thinking about Angels the way they sign free agent.
If these Pettitte and Marte's situation tell us something, that's Yankees really have a plan on hand. Good to hear if you are a Yankees fan. Another thing to think about is Yankees probably wait Pettitte and Marte's price to come down when it approaches to November 14. From Yankees' standpoint, if you can save some money, why not? Don't forget one thing. Pettitte let Yankees keep waiting and giving him 16 million the past two seasons when he had leverage.
I still think Yankees should bring back Pettitte as a back of rotation guy no matter what Moose's decision is. I know Yankees want to get younger, but you never have enough pitching. Of course, I have some concerns regard of Pettitte. First of all, it's his healthy status. Secondly, it seems Pettitte lose his stuff. For example, he seems to lose his cutter. Evidence shows on his stats against righty which is very high. However, I have no problem with a pitcher with middle 4 ERA and over 200 innings as a back of rotation guy. Not to mention he is a lefty which is rare commodity in baseball.
In fact, I will bring back both Pettitte and Moose back on one-year deal to goes with CC, Wang and Joba as my 2009 rotation when tons of other options wait on the minor. I rather have them instead of Lowe, Sheets, Burnett, etc.
However, I do think Yankees will only want to have one of Pettitte and Moose back. It looks like Moose is their first choice. I don't blame them after Moose's 20 win season with low 3 ERA, especially Moose shows the ability to make adjustment when velocity of his fastball slow down few mph. However, keep in mind one thing. Pettitte is going to be 37 while Moose will be 40 in 2009 season. On top of that, it seems to me Moose always put together great season on his "walk" year, doesn't it?
I actually can understand why Yankees only want to bring one of them back. When you look at the rotation I put above. There is a risk. CC come out two seasons with high innings workload. Wang and Joba come out of injury season when Joba has limitation on innings pitched. When you put them to go with two old pitchers(Pettitte and Moose). There is a risk. The ideal is Yankees actually bring 6 starters to camp and see what happen in my opinion.
However, I am not really so high on other free agent options. A.J Burnett? Inconsistent & injury prone. Lowe? Red Sox & age & AL East & another sinkerball pitcher with our defense. Sheet? Injury. Peavy? tons of prospects & switch from NL West to AL East & don't like New York and its spotlight. When you look at his number, Peavy will have a similar ERA as Wang in the AL East. I think his careeer ERA closer to 4 against AL team. Not to mention those not good numbers against AL East teams, especially on their park. Who else?
If Moose retire, we are going to need to have Pettitte back to go with one more free agent after CC. That's why I think Yankees will or should sign Pettitte back before November 14. No matter what, we should be able to know about Moose, Pettitte and Marte's situation with Yankees around November 14. I don't think Yankees will keep waiting Moose's decision and risk to lose Pettitte on free agent market.
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- Dannyzupl8 said...
Not Damaso Marte at 6 million, not Pettitte at 16, etc, etc, etc.. down the line. I agree with you that the Yanks show that they have a plan, but it seems they are much more worried about the projected budget, than the playoffs! (They wouldn't pay Pettitte AND Santana for last season, that seemed to be the main cause with prospect demand being the other).I think its too early in the off season to worry about him being scooped up by other teams. No one is going to offer a contract to Andy that will blow him out of the water. I also don't believe he wishes to sign anywhere but New York or Houston. I briefly looked at Pettitte's overall numbers at baseball-reference.com, and they are unbelievably consistent! His utter failure down the stretch last season really stands out in Yankee fans' minds, and was probably due to his irregular offseason.
I disagree sadly with bringing back Moose and Pettitte WITH rotation spots (1-5) I agree about more than 5 starters..You do need to have 6-7+ starters for a season, I've recently learned. And with too aging veterans on the staff, as well as unproved prospects, you are asking for trouble, Jessica. I also believe that of the two (Pettitte and Moose, Pettitte has the greatest chance to have a good season. Mike Mussina has 49 wins (05-08) and Pettitte has 60. Moose also Barely reached the 200 inning plateau this year, and it is his only one in the 04-08 period. Pettitte has comfortably reached that number in every season since 03, except for his injury shortened '04 season, with Houston. I would argue with you that Burnett is well worth the risk. He is an outstanding, dominant pitcher when motivated. I know you have seen him pitch, you're one of the best fan bloggers I've read so far. You give Abraham and Feinsand, and Murti a run for their money! Don't you think that the NY stage, a nice fat contract, etc. will be enough to inspire a great performance from that man in Toronto? He has been said to have the best stuff in baseball, and also, do not forget he faces the Yankees 4-6 times per season, and is an extremely tough game to win. If you can't beat them, join them! lol.. also, I think that him being injured is a given, but well-worth the risk. If he pitches 80-85 percent of a 5-6 year deal, it will be well worth it Jessica. He is the only other F/A that you listed that I would pursue, personally. (C.C already has his uniform!) and btw.. once you are logged into facebook, the link, does in fact work. So sign in, then click the link to my page. If not, tell me your network. Mine is hampton university and New York,Ny. (My school, and hometown) My name is Daniel Alexander Allman (D.Alexander Allman.) and sorry for the long rebuttle. I'm passionate about the devloping rotation, and young players.
- November 11, 2008 at 3:20 AM
- Jessica Lee said...
Dear Daniel,
You know. Do you know the main characteristic of being a girl? We can't figure out anything related to technology or machine. Ha! I can't fine you unfortunately.
But, I am the one doesn't believe I can't so something other people can do. We need to solve this problem.
There are two other ways I can think of. First of all, can you send your email to my email(email@example.com). Then I can use your email to search you.
Secondly, would you please find me. Ha! I actually don't know how to set up network. I think if you type "jessica lee", you probably can find me. I know there are tons of jessica lee out there. I am the one which the name with Chinese Characters with my jessica lee(my chinese name). I wear pink T-Shirt with blue jeans and sit in front of a church.
Hopefully you can find me. Facebook is supposed to be easy to use. Maybe I am too stupid.
- November 11, 2008 at 3:55 PM
- Jessica Lee said...
By the way, I tried to find you by following the information you gave to me. I spent a lot of time, but I don't know why I can't find you. I feel I am playing the amazing race.
First of all, I don't know where I can search someone by network. And then it seems I find your university, but I can't find you after looking through those 500 people.
Secondly, When I type your full name, facebook tell me there is no this person. and then there are too many Daniel Allman. I don't know and I am not sure which one is you.
So, here you go. I need your help.
- November 11, 2008 at 4:04 PM
- Jessica Lee said...
Ha! You may be right. It seems Hal really wants to run Yankees like a business unlike his father. As a Yankees, I don't know this is a good news or not.
However, When you think about it, it's important to have a budget. Yankees have been spent much more money than other teams. I actually don't care about this. But the trust of matter is it seems to me Yankees spent those money on feeding other teams as well. And then those teams become our main competitors. Not good and Not smart
at all.
Yes. We probably need 6 starting pitchers. Yes. This is risk to have two old pitchers in the rotation. However, we also need to think about position players as well. I agree with what you said regard of Pettitte. If you read between my lines, you know I would rather choose Pettitte than Moose. I know Moose has a far better year than Pettitte. But, it doesn't matter if Moose try to retire.
As for Burnett, I know he pitches so well against us and Red Sox. What a way to make money. I won't be unhappy if Yankees sign him. I am just on the fence for signing Burnett. However, there is one thing I know for sure. Don't let Red Sox get him. In fact, I hope any team out of AL East sign him if Yankees don't get him.
- November 11, 2008 at 4:19 PM
I forgot about the luxury tax issue.. So we are essentially lining the pockets of cheap sports franchise owners, and funding rival teams? Thats ludicrous.. Would baseball be more competitive with a salary floor and cap? I'm sure you don't follow american football, but in this sport, there is parity, few dynasties, and high turnover year-to-year. This would mean no A-rod, no Giambi, Clemens, etc. etc. etc. The Yankees consistently sign F/A and are forced to give up draft picks, or give up prospects in deals. If you knew of the opportunities we've passed up, or prospects we've recently dealt away to win now, you may be shocked..
In terms of position players, I would package Cano, and Kennedy, and mide level prospect for Mclouth, then we could sign Hudson. What do you think?
- November 12, 2008 at 3:27 AM
- Jessica Lee said...
First of all, which name you would like me to call you "Danny"? or "Daniel" or others?
This message below I sent to your email as well. Just in case you didn't get it from your email for whatever reasons. Think about the adventure we went through.
Of course, for safety reasons and I don't want to you get more junk emails. I don't put the whole two emails address over here.
This whole thing is so funny. We can't find each other. I use "search for people" function on facebook on both of your emails(aol one; hampton one). Interesting thing happened.
Ha! Are you sure that aol one is your email? For whatever reason, this email links to a girl.
And then I search for hampton one. Facebook told me there are no results for this email.
So...... I come up with another two ways to find each other.
First of all, I enter my email(firstname.lastname@example.com) on search for people function on facebook. It only come up with one person. That's me which wear pink t-shirt with blue jeans sit in front of a church on the picture. My name is Jessica Lee with some chinese characters. You should be able to find me by this way.
Secondly, I search "Daniel Allman" on the facebook. There are only not so many people on this name. If you put this name on facebook, discribe to me what your picture you use on the facebook looks like. I am sure I can find you by this way too.
- November 12, 2008 at 2:12 PM
- Jessica Lee said...
I learn a little bit about American football when I was in LA. I am a huge sport fan since I was a kid and likes to play ball as well. Go back to topic. Before going to America, I don't understand why Americans are so into American football. What is the interesting part to watch people crashing or running into each other? And then I watch that with my American friends, I start understanding why. I hope I don't make mistake about this. I think the game plan involving with offense and defense part which just like military affairs.
I still can't understand a lot and don't know how to.
As for Mclouth trade, I think I said it before. I don't mind Yankees trade for a young center fielder this off-season. I don't think Pirates will take Cano as the center piece of the deal even though I am not too comfortable the idea about trading Cano away. Pirates is in rebuilding mode. They just trade away Nady and Bay. Why they want to take Cano and his big deal? Not to mention Cano and Kennedy's off 2008 season. I think it will take more than what you say to get Mclouth. If they need more than that, I don't think I will feel comfortable about it.
- November 12, 2008 at 3:47 PM
The Yankees have tons of young, cheap pitching to offer the Pirates (It worked for Nady and Marte) They could and should package Jackson, and some young arms then? Is that a better package for Pittsburgh? A famous comedian who recently passed away made a military/ american football juxtaposition, while simultaneously showing the effeminacy of baseball. It was hilarious. His name is George Carlin, I'll find a youtube link to it, but I can't speak for other americans, I've never played organized football, just with friends on the occasional spare weekend. I follow the local teams, but I'm not a huge fan though. The violence does appeal to us though. (Oh and I think I would like to avoid being indexed by google, so could you maybe remove my name?) please? lol.. of all the places for my name to appear.
- November 13, 2008 at 3:20 AM
- Jessica Lee said...
I think that should be a better package than the one center with Cano. I think if we put Austin Jackson as a center piece of the deal with some good young pitchers. It should be able to get it done.
However, I don't think Yankees will put Austin Jackson in any deal unless there is someone they can't refuse. Not to mention Cashman already said center fielder is not the priority. I think they will upgrade this position once they solve starting pitchers and 1B(some offense to replace with Giambi and possible Abreu).
I do think Yankees will upgrade their outfielders after 2009 season when there are a lot of good outfielders becoming free agents, especially Mastui and Damon's contracts will be expired as well. This also give Austin Jackson another year in the minor to get ready. I think they will find a stop guy type(Cameron? even though I don't like it) and see what Gardner will do. I think this is their plan.
From this point on, I won't call your name on the comment section. I will try to remote your name, but I am not sure I can do it or not. Ha! I already told you I am not really good at technology.
As for American football, I really want to understand, but I don't know how to. If you know, let me know. I think the easiest way probably is take some time to watch game with someone know this sport which is very hard to do in Australia.
- November 13, 2008 at 6:17 AM
- Jessica Lee said...
sorry, i tried to remote your name on the comment section. It turns out I only can delete them which I don't want to do. So....I won't call you name from this point on. Is it ok?
- November 13, 2008 at 6:28 AM
Its fine.. I was fine with clicking anonymous too, : )
- November 14, 2008 at 2:00 AM
- Jessica Lee said...
if you click anonymous later on, please give me a signal in the comment in order to let me know that's you. I would like to know who I am talking to.
- November 14, 2008 at 5:59 AM


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The 20-year-old followed up her double success at the Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne in April with London 2012 gold medals in the team pursuit and omnium in August.
Her talent on the bike, coupled with her effervescent personality, made her an instant star of the home Games, but now she is enjoying being back on her bike.
Trott had 10 days off after the Games, two weeks on her bike, a week's holiday in Dubai and then returned to full-time training after the September 10 Olympic and Paralympic athletes' parade.
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Trott will start as 'man one', the lead-off rider, in the three-woman event, assuming Joanna Rowsell's role. Rowsell is absent following a virus, with 18-year-old Elinor Barker, the world junior road time-trial champion, taking her place.
Trott added: "It's a different job. It's getting the team up to speed. It's a bit of a hit and miss. I hope I get it right."
Dani King, the third member of the Olympic-winning trio which set six consecutive world records, said: "It's all right. She's got me on her wheel at man two to sort it out if she goes too quick."
All four girls will ride for the Honda Dream Team next year on the road, so should soon know each other well.
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