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Choosing Managers for Your Overseas Operations
This story appears in the October 1997 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
Before Mary Bonham opened a branch of her Sulphur Springs, Texas, plastics manufacturing company near London, she faced a slew of decisions. One of the toughest was who should run the new United Kingdom operation.
"You definitely need to have somebody who knows the [British] culture," says Bonham, owner and CEO of 20-person J-B Weld Co. "Going from America over there is quite different."
At the same time, previous stints selling overseas made Bonham wary of hiring someone from the U.K. "It's hard for them to become oriented to the American side [of the business]," she explains.
The answer to Bonham's dilemma? A bicultural manager--someone who understands the culture of both the home office and the foreign country, someone who is able to change hats depending on who they're dealing with.
Envisioning a bicultural manager is easier than hiring one. "They're hard to find," says Bonham. There are many places to look, from the home office to the country in which you're expanding, as well as executive search firms and other multinational companies.
Wherever you look, it's critical to the success of any overseas entrepreneurial venture that the search be made, and made successfully. "To be really effective," says Adrian Slywotzky, founding partner in Boston international management consulting firm Corporate Decisions Inc., "[global businesses] need people who operate in two languages and two cultures."
Hiring From Home
Bonham's first attempt, transferring a manager from her U.S. office to the new U.K. operation, is the most common response, says Joel Koblentz, managing partner in the Atlanta office of executive search firm Egon Zehnder International Inc. "Generally, when an American company opens a foreign office, it tends to send one of its own to the foreign soil," Koblentz says.
This strategy offers entrepreneurs the advantage of installing someone who knows the goals, strengths and culture of the company. The new manager is already familiar to the entrepreneur, who understands his or her strengths and weaknesses. It's also likely to be easy to select a candidate since the search is limited to current employees. Finally, there's a good chance the candidate will take the job in order to gain interesting and potentially valuable international business experience, adds Koblentz.
There can be problems with transplanted U.S. managers, however. The big one is that he or she likely won't know how business is done in the foreign country. "The individual may arrive with the best intentions but find out there are vast cultural differences," says Koblentz. "And even if they speak the language, they may not have spoken it in a business setting before."
Another problem is what to do with transfers when they return. "Eventually, that individual will want to come home, no matter how successful," says Koblentz. "You must have a [job] for them to come back to."
Unfortunately, such a job often doesn't exist. "People come back from these overseas experiences filled with talent and benefit to their company," says Dean Foster, director of the worldwide cross-cultural division at Berlitz International Inc., a New York City firm specializing in corporate cultural sensitivity training and language instruction. "Often the company doesn't know what to do with these folks."
It's common for managers requesting a return to be told that there isn't a job for them back home. Other businesses place the international manager in a job that doesn't use any of the new skills he or she has learned. Either way is likely to result in the loss of a valuable employee.
For Bonham, the first answer worked--for a while. Her U.S. manager ran the U.K. office smoothly, helped by the fact that language was not an issue. But when this manager was killed after a short time on the job, Bonham again had to face the management question.
Help For Hire
For her second hire, Bonham resolved to obtain a U.K.-born businessperson. Unsure where to look, she hired an executive recruiter with worldwide offices to find her London manager.
Executive recruiters are valuable sources for bicultural managers for several reasons. They may have offices both in your home city and in the overseas location. As a basic business practice, these headhunters maintain files of bicultural managers who are willing to move. Some even specialize in recruiting the culturally ambidextrous.
Hiring a headhunter relieves you of the time-consuming distraction of sifting through candidates, often at a considerable distance, while other work goes begging. It also gives you a contact who knows the local market. As Bonham puts it, "How am I going to know who to pick from in a foreign country?"
Headhunters are not without problems, however; cost is the main one. Some work on a retainer basis, charging a fixed fee in advance for filling the position; others are paid a contingency fee when a successful hire is made. Depending on the location, type of manager and time required, a successful search may cost anywhere from $50,000 to $100,000, says Koblentz.
Another problem: If you're used to working with headhunters in the United States, you may be disappointed with the results of an international search. It's important to hook up with a headhunter who has good connections in the foreign country, stresses Slywotzky: "Most of [the headhunting industry] is still focused on the traditional U.S. market."
Bonham's headhunter eventually found her an English businessman who had the U.K. experience she was looking for and was willing to consider taking a job with her company because, among other reasons, it meant a shorter drive to work. That manager is working out fine, she reports.
All things considered, Bonham says next time she needs to hire biculturally, she'll go back to a headhunter. "It was expensive," she says, "but worth it."
Raiding Rivals
If you're conducting your own search for a bicultural manager, the best place to look is probably among the U.S. ranks of companies that have already been overseas. "[You'll find] a staggering number of repatriates who are looking for work after coming back to the United States with a lot of international experience," says Foster.
Finding a suitable candidate may be as simple as contacting the outplacement offices of large multinational corporations. These offices help find new jobs for departing employees, including former overseas managers who have come home and haven't reintegrated with their U.S. companies. You can also find management talent by reading and advertising in trade journals and networking at industry gatherings.
However you find them, these former international managers will likely be more numerous and more motivated than either managers in your home office, who may be satisfied in their current positions, or candidates in a foreign country, who probably have never heard of your firm.
School Ties
If you've used all these tactics and have been unable to find a suitable candidate, it may be time to go back to school. Many U.S. universities have large enrollments of students from around the world. And many of these students, after spending several years here pursuing their studies, are ready to return home, bringing with them both business acumen and an understanding of U.S. business culture.
Recent graduates may carry advantages such as reasonable salary demands and familiarity with current business theories and technology. But experts note they are likely to be short on practical experience and, after a spell back in their home country, may want to return to the United States.
Be careful, too, about hiring foreign students who are too Americanized. People who came here when they were very young may have no better understanding of foreign cultures than you do.
In some cultures, adds Foster, locals who have become Americanized are misunderstood or even resented. "You may have more luck if you don't send a Japanese-American to Japan," he says. "The Japanese will assume [these people are] Japanese, not American. And when it's revealed that they're American, the Japanese often have a problem dealing with that."
An increasing number of U.S. business schools offer international business management degrees; hiring one of these graduates may sound like the perfect solution. But many of these students want to work for and are heavily recruited by high-profile multinational corporations.
You may find, however, that even a student with a diploma certifying international business expertise isn't quite what you need, says Jacqueline Wasilewski, Tokyo-based president of Sietar International, a cultural education association. Some graduates have culturally generic skills that are a poor fit for an entrepreneur who needs skills specific to a single country.
After The Hire
Hiring a bicultural manager is usually only part of the solution. It's what you do after the job is offered and accepted that frequently determines the employee's long-term success.
"I'm convinced that even if you hire the right person, that's only the beginning," says Larry Rosenfeld, co-founder of Concentra Corp., a Burlington, Massachusetts, software company with offices in several European and Asian countries. "It's really [about] bringing that person up to speed on what [your company is] all about."
For managers transferred from the home office, the key may be for the business owner to set up in advance a way for the overseas manager to come home. Ask yourself before you even offer the job: What can I do with this employee in the home office in three or four years? Try to develop a useful, challenging position that will require the specific skills your employee has acquired overseas, advises Foster.
A company that doesn't find a good job for an employee who is returning home may not be able to recruit a U.S. manager to follow him overseas, Foster warns. To solve this problem, some firms ask expatriates to hire their replacements from the local population before returning.
Hiring locally creates another problem, however: how to integrate the new foreign employee into the culture of the U.S.-based firm. The most common response is to bring the new hire stateside for a stint of education and exposure.
"Although it takes a reasonable amount of time, it's very effective," says Slywotzky. "And you have somebody who's tricultural--they know their home country, they know the United States and they know the company culture."
That's the approach Bonham is taking with her latest hire. "The manager I have right now is really good," she says, "but I'm going to bring him to America this year and let him get to know the work habits of Americans vs. the work habits of the English."
If you can't find the perfect bicultural manager, don't despair. Two managers, each providing half the solution, may work as well, if not better.
Rosenfeld prefers to transfer one manager from the home office and hire another locally. The local hire provides the immediate cultural expertise. The transfer not only brings experience with the corporate culture but, as an outsider who isn't expected to understand local mores, can get away with things a local couldn't.
In Japan, for instance, Rosenfeld finds American transplants can sometimes circumvent the time-consuming Japanese relationship-building exercise. "Straight talk isn't appreciated from a Japanese," he notes, "but from an American, they'll often accept it."
Beyond Bicultural
Even if you succeed in hiring a bicultural manager, your search may be just beginning. That's because, increasingly, having expertise in two cultures isn't enough.
"The concept of the bicultural manager is outdated," says Wasilewski. "Organizations that are going to be effective in the 21st century are going to be global organizations. People in top management are going to have to have multicultural skills, not just bicultural skills."
A global manager is both less and more than a bicultural executive. Global managers have a smattering of knowledge specific to many cultures, rather than in-depth experience in a few. They may speak only one language fluently, but what they do have is an understanding of how to appraise and adjust to the requirements of doing business in a culture different from the one they're used to.
Global managers are needed because cultures themselves are becoming less distinct. "A Japanese manager coming into the U.S. to run a factory is probably managing a work force with a lot of Hispanics," notes Wasilewski. "It's not enough for that manager to be bicultural."
Going global may seem like a tall order, but more and more, it's what's required to succeed in today's competitive world.
On The Hunt
Butler International Inc.
110 Summit Ave.
Montvale, NJ 07645
(201) 573-8000, fax: (201) 573-8838
Egon Zehnder International Inc.
55 E. 59th St., 14th Fl.
New York, NY 10022-1185
(212) 838-9199
Korn/Ferry International
1800 Century Park E., #900
Los Angeles, CA 90067
(310) 552-1834, fax: (310) 553-6452
Robert Half International Inc.
2884 Sand Hill Rd., #200
Menlo Park, CA 94025
(415) 854-9700, fax: (415) 234-6999
Contact Sources
Berlitz International Inc., 257 Park Ave. S., New York, NY 10010, (212) 598-2556
Concentra Corp., 21 North Ave., Burlington, MA 01803, (617) 229-4600
Corporate Decisions Inc., 1 International Pl., Boston, MA 02110-2600, (617) 330-6890
Egon Zehnder International Inc., fax: (404) 876-4578
J-B Weld Co., P.O. Box 483, Sulphur Spings, TX 75483, (903) 885-7696
Sietar International, 1505 22nd St. N.W., Washington, DC 20037, (202) 466-7883.


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The murder of an English business man and corruption scandal, involving one of the China's most powerful men, has gripped the country. NBC's Ian Williams reports.
CHONGQING, China – Everywhere you go in Chongqing, you can see traces of the complicated legacy of Bo Xilai, the former Communist party chief who ran this municipality of 30 million people until scandal derailed him.
At one time destined for a top post in China's highest echelon of power, the standing committee of the politburo of the Communist Party, Bo aggressively poured money into this municipality in pursuit of his populist agenda.
To drive through the windy roads that snake around this hilly metropolis is to see a city in constant transformation. Towers of low-income housing complexes dot the skyline. These social housing projects were meant to address a major national issue: the lack of affordable housing, and provided homes that cost just a few hundred dollars a year to rent. And Bo had gingko trees, said to be one of his favorites, planted across the city.
But these city improvements came at a cost: His heavy investment in capital construction projects forced the city to borrow so much money to pay for it that Chongqing owes $20 billion to the China Development Bank, according to a news report on Wednesday. The tree planting saddled the city with a $1.5 billion bill just for 2010 alone.
The improvements weren't the only controversial aspect of Bo's reign over this important gateway city to the western half of China, and since his demise his critics have stepped out of the shadows to talk about the darker side of life in what had become the former leader's personal fiefdom.
Told a Bo joke, got a year in a labor camp
In Chongqing, NBC News spoke with Fang Hong, a 51-year-old former forestry officer who made news earlier this week when he filed an appeal with a local court seeking compensation for what he alleged was an unfair sentence he served at a labor camp.
According to Fang, he was imprisoned for posting a two-line joke about Bo on his microblog that quickly went viral. Soon after, Fang said he was dragged in by police for questioning and later brought before a police tribunal where he was sentenced for "fabricating facts and disturbing public order."
Fang served his sentence at a labor camp where he said he was forced to assemble thousands of Christmas ornaments for export for one year.
Released earlier this year, Fang was emboldened by the criticism that has shrouded Bo following his high-profile falling out with his vice-mayor and former police chief, Wang Lijun, who famously sought refuge at the American embassy in Chengdu. That move by Wang sparked an international political scandal that now includes a murder mystery. Bo's wife, Gu Kailai, is a murder suspect in the death of British businessman Neil Heywood; Bo has been officially disowned by the ruling Communist Party and has disappeared from public view.
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A crowd gathers around Fang Hong in Chongqing to hear his story on Tuesday.
Boisterous debate on Bo
Fang agreed to do an interview with NBC News on an outside promenade with commanding views of Chongqing's skyline and the mighty Yangtze River below. Fang spoke confidently, eager to tell his story about the deprivations he faced while interned at the labor camp.
Between the presence of a foreign camera crew and his loud denouncements of Bo Xilai, Fang quickly drew a crowd of onlookers.
The first indication that things were going to get contentious with the crowd was when one short, middle-aged man standing next to the camera started muttering under his breath as he listened to Fang.
Taking jagged drags from his cigarette and nervously flicking ash between puffs, the man's voice rose incrementally to voice his protestations of Fang's opinion about Bo. Those near to the man shushed him as they strained to hear what Fang was saying, but after one particular statement, the man clearly had enough.
"That's bull---! Bo Xilai has done so much for Chongqing!" bellowed the man as he waved his cigarette at Fang.
The crowd erupted into a loud, boisterous debate on Bo, prompting NBC News correspondent Ian Williams to wrap up the interview so that Fang could quickly leave with his lawyers.
But before he left, Fang feistily told the man what he thought of his opinion, triggering a shouting match. One of Fang's lawyers and some of the crowd had to separate the pair.
David Lom / NBC News
Angry pro-Bo Xilai supporter voices his opinion to the crowd in Chongqing.
'Since Bo Xilai took power I feel more secure'
Not everyone had negative feelings about the disgraced former party chief.
One older woman in the crowd said:, "Before, I was worried to wear earrings because I was worried I'd get robbed, but since Bo Xilai I feel more secure seeing more police on the streets."
Finally, a line of security guards rolled up and broke up the crowd. The guards were not forceful and they exchanged a few knowing nods with the throng of people who were loudly voicing their support for Bo.
Bo's fall has clearly given his critics the opportunity they've long desired to voice their criticisms of him.
However, despite the accusations that paint Bo's Chongqing was something akin to a modern-day Tammany Hall, the populism and perhaps most importantly, the pride he instilled in this mega-city suggest his popular legacy may last far longer than Communist Party officials would like.
As one driver told us, "Yeah, Bo might have been corrupt, but at least he did something for us – which is more than those corrupt officials who do nothing at all."
NBC News' Bo Gu contributed to this report.


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GIBSONVILLE � Eastern Guilford turned around its fortunes just in time and freshman guard LeeAysia Williamson scored the game�s final three points as the host Wildcats knocked off previously undefeated River Mill 60-59 in the girls� championship game of the Eastern Guilford Christmas Holiday Tournament on Friday night.
Williamson drained the first attempt on a 1-and-1 free-throw opportunity with 5.8 seconds left after she was fouled while beginning a drive from the perimeter.
She missed her second attempt, but River Mill (8-1) never got off a shot after securing the rebound.
It was a remarkable turnaround for first-year coach Kris Britton�s team, which lost by 28 points to River Mill earlier this month.
Late in the game, Britton said she told her team: �Trust me, this is our game.�
The Wildcats (7-4) completed a game-ending 14-6 spurt.
River Mill coach Hamilton Perkins said the tournament championship atmosphere seemed to heightened the stakes.
�I feel both teams will benefit from this,� he said.
River Mill rallied from an 11-point deficit to build a 53-46 lead after back-to-back baskets from Lenaira Ruffin and a driving bucket from Marla Crawford. This came during a stretch when the Wildcats committed turnovers on three consecutive possessions.
�Unable to sustain it,� Perkins said. �We did slow the tempo down, but we still looked for our shots.�
Eastern Guilford�s Callie Patterson scored the next five points. Whitney Parks, who had played sparingly for parts of the game, drained an 18-foot jumper to close the gap to 59-57.
Williamson�s steal in River Mill�s frontcourt and layup tied the game at 59-59 with 36 seconds left. A River Mill turnover gave the Wildcats another possession that yielded the winning point.
�The biggest thing about this game was that in the first game (won 65-37 by River Mill), I felt like we laid down,� Britton said. �They�re a great team, but from that point on, I told them we will no longer roll over for anyone. � This win is huge for so many reasons.�
Patterson, a sophomore guard who was named the tournament�s Most Valuable Player, finished with 20 points and Williamson ended up with 14. All five of Parks� points came in the fourth quarter.
Ruffin�s 21 points paced River Mill. Crawford added 14 points.
River Mill scored three seconds into the game on Crawford�s layup and added a few more quick baskets. Eastern Guilford heated up, pulling ahead by the end of the first quarter.
Eastern Guilford�s lead ballooned to 36-25 until Ruffin banked in a 3-pointer at the first-half buzzer.


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By Claire Warmenbol of IUCN's Global Water Programme.
I will start this post with a confession. When I recently told my mother I was flying to Nairobi for a workshop on the Nexus Dialogue, I struggled to explain to her, in a jargon-free way, what this project is all about.
The truth was, the Nexus, amongst our many Water Programme projects, was still fuzzy to me. It all seemed so abstract, and frankly, not at all sexy. But it's a crucial project, formally known as the Nexus Dialogue on Water Infrastructure Solutions, which started early this year in partnership with the International Water Association (IWA) and with funding from the US State Department.
So part of my plan whilst coordinating communications during the Nexus' first regional workshop (which took place 28-29 May, see web story), was to listen, ask questions and gather stories. Stories are always the key, not only to explain complex topics, but also to bring messages home, make something memorable.
Ok, so what is this Nexus? You may have picked up the term already in the press, environmental literature or at lectures and meetings. The Cambridge dictionary defines Nexus as 'an important connection between the parts of a system or a group of things'. It further illustrates this definition with the example: 'Times Square is the nexus of the New York Subway'. I thought that was quite apt, particularly since we had an infographic designed on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus using the model of a subway system (see my colleague Rebecca Welling's blog post).
But still, really, what is meant with the Nexus? In real life? During the workshop, I found myself surrounded by the most interesting people with the most interesting stories. One of the participants was Salima Issa Lyimo from Tanzania's Pangani Water Board, in charge of monitoring and allocating the river's water to the different users in the basin. He sat next to me at lunchtime, whilst on my left was Jerry Goh, manager of Kili Flora, a large flower company in the Pangani basin employing hundreds of people in the region.
Growing flowers is of course a water intensive industry, with the availability of it a top priority for its business model. Salima and Jerry were discussing the challenges of water permit allocation, the need for additional energy so boreholes can be dug for groundwater, optimizing wells and irrigation systems to make them more water efficient, and improving the livelihoods of local communities. They all need water, and it's in everyone's interest that it is managed properly.
As other workshop participants joined our table, further questions were added, such as how much water can be extracted whilst leaving enough for nature's services of filtering, cleaning, and leaving enough for biodiversity? How can businesses in the region continue to thrive whilst sharing water in a way that will not compromise other sectors? And how about the effects of climate change in the region, with the iconic Kilimanjaro's rapidly melting ice cap? Those discussions are what the Nexus is all about.
But it is certainly not only a local issue. The Nexus is equally relevant at the international level. For example, I spoke with Joseph Magoshi from the Eastern Africa Power Pool (EAPP), a regional intergovernmental organisation that aims to pool electrical energy in a coordinated way to provide reliable electricity in the region. He explained how Kenya's growing energy demands force the sector to expand and even import energy from neighbouring countries such as Uganda. Again, water plays a crucial role here. Over 60% of Kenya's energy comes from hydropower, whilst the rest is mainly generated from geothermal sources tapped in the Rift Valley.
Due to the exhaustion of more hydropower potential, Joseph told me about future plans to explore nuclear energy in Kenya. Bearing in mind nuclear reactors are always built near water sources because they need large quantities of it to cool the waste heat discharge, nexus issues arise. One only has to look back into recent drought records to see how Kenya is already affected by reduced water availability. So how will water managers in Kenya cope with the current and future demands from energy managers, and what will be left for the country's agricultural sector?
The nexus in real life in other words.
Stories, I got them, and plenty, and clear. The nexus came to life, and there was no doubt following the discussions that the links between water, food, and energy are forces to be reckoned with. As Mark Smith noted during the workshop "we cannot let this moment in time pass by without tapping into the wealth of knowledge and solutions that is out there. Learning from past experiences, including natural infrastructure and equity in the portfolio of solutions will greatly benefit plans for new, optimized and improved water infrastructures in the future".
Agreed. Learning from past experiences and best practices, improving integration and collaboration, focusing on efficient, cost-effective and optimized infrastructures, and talking solutions is what the workshop was all about. And suddenly our project 'Nexus Dialogue on Water Infrastructure Solutions' has become this great communications tool, an initiative where solutions are shared and discussed, stories told, partnerships forged, and innovation and ideas reign …certainly not fuzzy anymore, and yes, even almost sexy.
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Saia replaces associate head coach Cristina Moros, who has decided to pursue head coaching positions.
"I am beyond excited to be a part of the OU women's tennis team," Saia said. "My dad grew up a big OU fan and nicknamed me "Boomer" and it stuck. To be able to coach at a place that I was nicknamed after is a dream realized.
"OU's facilities are some of the best in the country and I want to thank Coach Mullins for giving me the opportunity to coach and be a part of such an unbelievable program."
Saia joins the Sooners from Lawrence, Kan., where he was the volunteer assistant coach for the Kansas women's tennis team the past four years.
"I was fortunate to have a lot of interest from a number of great candidates around the country for my assistant position, but there is no doubt that Boomer is the best person for the job," Mullins said. "He is primed to have a long and successful coaching career due to his work ethic and his strong desire to help student-athletes achieve their goals."
Originally from Arkansas City, Kan., Saia was a two-time state doubles champion. He attended Cowley Junior College where he was an academic all-American and a doubles semifinalist at the NJCAA National Tournament in 2009.
"His passion and energy for college tennis and the University of Oklahoma is contagious," Mullins added. "I have no doubt he can continue to help our team climb to new heights."
During his four years at Kansas, Saia saw the team reach a program high ranking when the team reached No. 33 in the ITA polls.
"I am obviously very saddened to lose Cristina as an associate head coach but I am thrilled that she has now put herself in position to be considered for a number of prestigious head coaching positions," Mullins said. "Cristina is a great coach who has meant a great deal to our student-athletes, the University of Oklahoma athletic department and me. We were all very fortunate to learn from her both on and off the court."
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Colacello's words in Orth's mouth
In last week's "Big winner: Emily Couric scholarshipper gets $30K," a remark made by Maureen Orth's colleague, Bob Colacello– "I do in-depth pieces on superficial people–" was mistakenly attributed to her. And Orth's reporting has been more investigative journalism than pop culture as described in the original version.
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Stressed out by barking drill instructors? Exhausted by all that Air Force Academy homework? Worried about how you'll play in that next game?
Just swing by the office of Chief Master Sgt. Jeremy Hardy. He'll teach you about stress.
Just don't expect sympathy.
From his polished boots to his red pararescue beret, Hardy is at the academy to teach cadets about stress and how to lead through it.
"They have an identity crisis," Hardy said. "Are they college students or are they airmen?"
A 28-year Air Force veteran, Hardy is a member of the Air Force's small, little-known special operations community, commonly called PJs, for pararescue jumper. Think of Green Berets with blue uniforms.
In his old job, he jumped into enemy-held territory to recover downed pilots, including now-Lt. Gen. David Goldfein, who was shot down in Serbia and pulled out by a team that included Hardy. To get the pilot, they flew a helicopter into a firefight.
"Serbian special police and their dogs were on him right away," Hardy said.
Hardy has been in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Philippines and the Horn of Africa, serving alongside Green Berets and Navy SEALs. They're experts in rescue from firefights, collapsed buildings and river rapids.
Much of his work is classified. But he mentioned in passing that he was a part of the rescue of Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch, one of the first and the most famous POW of the Iraq War.
Hardy has a chest full of ribbons, topped by the Bronze Star Medal for Valor. He's got parachutist's wings and a diver's badge pinned along with other hardware to his overburdened uniform shirt. He's also a combat medic.
What brought this imposing figure to the academy?
"I had a pretty bad jump in 2003," he said.
A hip replacement relegated him to a desk.
When Hardy got the call to be become the senior enlisted adviser to the academy's commandant of cadets this year, he was sweating bullets.
"I'm not going to lie to you," he said. "I was scared out of my mind about what I was going to get into.
"It's the most fun I've ever had," he added.
Hardy helps ready cadets for the battlefield.
Although the war is winding down in Afghanistan, threats remain. And when cadets become lieutenants, they'll lead battle-hardened warriors honed by a dozen years of fighting.
"The biggest mission is reinvigorating their warrior spirit," Hardy said. "We're trying to remind them that they're airmen."
Hardy stalks the hallways, talking to cadets. He tells them what it's like in battle.
The ones who stumble wind up in front of his desk, in an office decorated with souvenirs of a career in battle, including shell casings and Goldfein's uniform nametag.
"If they have to come see me, it's a bad day," he said.
So he wants them to learn when he goes to them.
"I take it deadly serious that I will salute these guys some day," Hardy said.


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Lazy trumps all – for the supporters of SOPA and PIPAWednesday, January 18th, 2012
One of my favorite quotes from Hunter Ellinger is: "Necessity may be the mother of invention, but laziness is the father." (I don't know if he said it first, but that's where I heard it first.)
I find that quote to be accurate in so many ways.
I look for how to get the most leverage and the quickest win. The normal arguments about doing the, "right thing", unfortunately, don't always apply. It doesn't help that the industry itself isn't really trusted or viewed as doing the "right thing."
So in regards to SOPA and PIPA – we have to ask: "what are the real goals here?"
If the REAL goal is to sponsor the artists and make their lives sustainable, then we need to take advantage of people's laziness. Set up something like iTunes appstore for individual artists and give them a fair cut.
Or perhaps we should better pursue something like YouTube's commodification for popular creators/posters. If you have a popular enough channel, you can actually make a living off of it. But then, YouTube actually understands the Long Tail in regards to content creation.
Another option would be something like a donation jar like the website http://flattr.com/ which allows you to give micropayments to content creators and bloggers.
I also like the idea of microdonations for nonprofits. But again, make it easy… Appstore purchases are only a password away!
Also don't force me to "steal" to enjoy something I have already purchased.
RIAA and MPAA need to start looking towards more convenient purchase models like iTunes and Paypal. (Though Paypal could be a lot easier IMHO.) It is so easy for me to do "the right thing" on iTunes. Imagine instead that more artists saw direct profits like developers do on the appstore… How would that change many peoples' purchasing habits?
I also hope and dream that someday Facebook will realize the amazing monitization that could occur if they looked at things a little more like YouTube and realized that we are not the content to be sold to advertisers but instead are the artists that could be supported by our friends.


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Goals from Chelsea's John Swift and Martin Christensen bookended the first-half and were enough to settle a cagey encounter in sun-drenched West London.
Jordy Hiwula replied for City with 20 minutes to play but the Sky Blues couldn't find an equaliser their much improved second half performance warranted.
With Norwich City hosting the Chelsea first-team on Sunday afternoon, Stamford Bridge was the venue for this, City's sixth Barclays u21 Premier League assignment.
Head of City EDS Patrick Vieira opted for three changes from the team that lost 2-0 to Liverpool back on 23 September, with Greg Leigh, Marcos Lopes and Albert Rusnak returning to the XI.
Six players retained their places from City's 6-0 UEFA Youth League win over Bayern Munich, including goalscorers Jason Denayer and Devante Cole, as well as hat-trick hero Lopes who captained the side.
Meanwhile, the hosts named a strong line-up packed with first-team experience, including Ruben Loftus Cheek, Nathan Ake and Tomas Kalas, making just one change from the under-19 team that beat Steaua Bucharest in midweek.
Vieira's men were looking to avoid a third successive defeat but they got off to the worst possible start, conceding from Chelsea's first attack on eight minutes.
Ake swung in a deep cross from the left hand side and it was met by John Swift who continued his fine recent goalscoring form by nodding home under pressure at the back post.
Confidence ebbed through the collective veins of the home team and only a great save by Ian Lawlor from Loftus-Cheek after 20 minutes prevented them from doubling their advantage, but City could have levelled a minute later.
Sinan Bytyqi showed a good turn of pace on the left wing and unselfishly laid the ball into the path of Cole but Chelsea defender Ake through himself in front of the striker's goalbound effort and deflected the ball clear of danger.
City grew stronger as the half wore on, enjoying lengthy spells of possession and they fashioned out a couple of good chances for equalisers but the omnipresent Ake always seemed to be on hand to repel the Sky Blue attacking overtures.
After looking porous in the early stages of the half, Denayer and Ellis Plummer had seemed to close ranks and tighten City's defence up to nullify Chelsea's threat but there was a sting in the tail in additional time.
A corner was flicked on and Christensen arrived at the back post to poke home – the City defenders claimed offside but replays showed that Lopes was playing the centre-back on.
The two goal winning margin probably just about flattered Chelsea on the balance of play but the away side's greater incision in the final third had tipped the balance.
Vieira made his first change at the break with Adam Drury entering the fray in place of Shay Facey.
"At 2-0, the third goal of the game was always going to be crucial and City seemed determined to get it with the intensity of their pressing noticeably ratcheted up in the early stages of the second half."
...Match report...
On several occasions Drury managed to go past the Chelsea left-back and cross into dangerous areas but the home side defended with discipline and organisation to maintain their two goal lead, leaving City frustrated in their attempts to get the talismanic Lopes into the game.
Hiwula was introduced from the bench in place of the lively Cole with half an hour to play in an attempt to salvage something from the game and it was a change that was rewarded after 72 minutes when the England youth international halved the arrears.
Denayer was instrumental in the build-up, stepping out from defence and slipping the ball into the path of Drury on the right who squared for Hiwula who beat the offside trap and had the simplest of tasks to slide it home from close range.
Vieira's side pushed on for the equaliser, with another of the UEFA Youth League heroes entering the fray in the shape of George Glendon but they started to leave gaps defensively which Chelsea almost exploited on the counter but Kalas, Baker and Feruz couldn't capitalise.
Lopes, Fofana and Albert Rusnak all had late chances to level but a combination of good goalkeeping and committed Chelsea defending meant that it was the Londoners who claimed the points from a game that could have gone either way.
City's Elite Development Squad return to action on 18 October when they welcome Aston Villa to Hyde FC.


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It's funny – after reading the other day that LaBoy was now available (former AZ Cardinal), I wondered if the Pack might be interested in him. Some confirmation here anyway, that we are. He is a decent LB with nice OLB size and skills (6'3″ 260LBS). Despite an off-season biceps surgery, he may be a nice rangy-type LB addition to compete with Chillar, Poppinga and Matthews for the OLB spot opposite Kampman.
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According to Bedard, his agent has heard anything from the Pack.
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The Steelers are or have released ILB Larry Foote today. He's 28 and a heck of a run stuffer. They had to make way for Lawrence Timmons, who could/should have started last year. Give Ted Thompson a call tonight and let him know. He'd be a good fit in the 3-4 Packer D.
The Pack should sign him, he'd stuff the parrot.


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The Volkswagen microbus, that zany cultural icon of the flower-power Sixties and, more soberly, the workhorse of small businesses worldwide for more than 60 years, will finally give it up and head for the barn.
In December, according to this piece from Der Spiegel, Volkswagen's operation in Brazil, the only country where the old buses are still made, will end production of the old Type 2 transporter, that rattling and wheezing contraption that nonetheless performed in a mostly faithful manner. The reason for axing the old bus is fairly mundane, too, but just as predictable in the 21st century nanny state — starting in 2014, cars made in Brazil must have standard anti-lock brakes and air bags, something VW apparently decided not to do on the less-than-modern microbus. (It would be soooooo out of character, anyway, to have a charming car like that with ABS and air bags.)
So it's the end of an era. The VW microbus, known variously as the Kombi or the Bulli or just the Bus, was a binge kind of vehicle — it held an extraordinary amount of stuff and you could cram a lot of people into it for one of those Sixties events, whether you were heading for a demonstration or a Jefferson Airplane concert.
My sister generously loaned me her 1963 23-window (including 8 skylights) microbus one winter and I drove it from New York to Colorado, where it spent a hardy year in service as a college town errand-runner, party-runner, beerkeg-runner, date-runner, all without breaking a sweat. In terms of contemporary auto safety, those things were incredibly dangerous — the only thing between the driver and the car you were about to hit was the front-of-the-bus sheet metal a few inches from your knees. The engine was in the rear. But they were fun, they were useful and they reeked with character.
Some time after I drove it back east, the poor bus was stolen off the streets of New York and every time I see a white-over-dark-green microbus I take a closer look to see if it's the one. By the way, they've become collector items and regularly crop up on the classic car auction circuit. Clearly, there are still devoted fans out there and a multiplicity of Web sites for the faithful.


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The next few posts (Days 4-6, and anything about Seward or Flattop) will be more retrospective, as they happened a couple weeks ago now. I'm catching up to the end of the trip, then will be more "forward" thinking after that!
Start: Whitecourt, Alberta, Canada (9AM)
End: Muncho Lake, British Columbia, Canada (11PM)
Miles: 692
On Day 3 we stopped about 50 miles short of where we should have, in Whitecourt, a small town basically made of motels. The Alaska Highway motel was not as desirable as I had hoped (that's what I get for picking based on name alone) but we got on our way and saw what began to be the really awesome part of the drive. Also of note: it was still (twi)light around 10:30PM when we stopped at the motel, despite some clouds. We were clearly pretty far north, and it didn't really hit us until then.
This might have been my favorite day of the drive, overall – mostly for the evening ride from Fort Nelson to our ending point, the Northern Rockies Lodge along breathtaking Muncho Lake, a long and skinny blue lake stuck among some really tall mountains. I wish I had gotten a photo of it at night (again, not fully dark out) but the morning ones will have to do. Also, the Northern Rockies Lodge was basically like staying in that hotel in Twin Peaks – it was a big log cabin, with each of the rooms having log walls (if on exterior walls) and a huge great room/morning dining area with windows overlooking the lake. NRL is owned by a (Swiss?) couple, and the husband is a bushpilot (flies those small sea planes etc) who will fly guests to lodges and remote places for day tours. If I had the time and inclination, I would most definitely go back there – driving in and out of it was great.
Highlights: Leaving Alberta finally, although we did get to see some more lovely prairies, the start of the northern woods with its short-ish dense evergreens. Awesome little rest stop with birches and bear-proof trash containers. Entering British Columbia and, shortly after, passing through Dawson Creek – MILE ZERO OF THE ALASKA HIGHWAY sign. Going past a place called Wonowon. The Fort Nelson hotel and its Tiki lounge/ballroom area. The drive between Fort Nelson and Muncho Lake. Really feeling like we're in the far north. SEEING MOOSE!!! AND BLACK BEARS!!! And one sheep. Plugging my phone charger into a log (with an electrical outlet). Muncho Lake, which has a stupid name but is just beautiful.
Lowlights: Not listening to the Garmin (that somehow knew about a road closure that had just happened that week) and driving west anyway, only to hit an abrupt "Road Closed" sign with a mound of dirt that redirected us onto a gravel farm road and back the way we came. Apparently, some washouts/flooding nearby. Hitting a miles-long backup of construction around Taylor/Fort St. John where there was single-lane traffic to get across the end of a mountain pass and major bridge – no detours here, folks. Paying about $6/gallon ($1.40/litre) because of BC towns' remote location and high taxes. Also, worrying about where to get gas and where we were going to stop – luckily, a woman at the front desk of the Fort Nelson Hotel was kind enough to call ahead to what ended up being a super awesome place to stay (see above).
The next day we headed into the Yukon, officially, and ended up with a similarly spectacular (but very different looking) lakeside view on Day 5. More to come. For now, some photos.


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Beltran excited about return to New York
Bronx, NY (SportsNetwork.com) - Carlos Beltran is back in New York, this time as a New York Yankee.
The former New York Mets star officially signed a three-year contract on Thursday and donned a No. 36 Yankee pinstripe uniform on Friday.
"It's a great honor to be back in the city," said Beltran on Friday. "I learned about the city and am happy to have an opportunity to come back again, this time as a Yankee. I grew up being a Yankee fan, a Bernie Williams fan."
Beltran was almost a Yankee when he was the star free agent on the market after the 2004 season. He instead signed a seven-year, $119 million contract with the Mets and played across town until being dealt to the San Francisco Giants before the 2011 trade deadline.
"They couldn't commit to me for the years I was looking for," Beltran said about talks with the Yankees nine years ago. "At the end of the day, I needed to do what was best for me and my family and they needed to do what was best for the organization and I ended up signing with the Mets."
Beltran nearly carried the Mets to the National League pennant in 2006, coming up short in Game 7 of the NLCS against the St. Louis Cardinals. He was the last out of the series, taking a called third strike from Adam Wainwright.
Despite good numbers during his tenure in Queens, many Mets fans only remember Beltran for keeping the bat on his shoulder in Game 7. He'll return to Queens as a member of the Yankees in May.
"It's going to be fun," Beltran quipped about playing in Citi Field. "I have good memories in Queens. I have only good things to say about the Mets.
"Some (fans) are going to cheer, some are going to boo. At the end of the day, I'm going to play baseball."
Beltran, who will turn 37 in April, batted .296 with 24 homers and 84 RBI in 145 games for the Cardinals last season, helping St. Louis reach the World Series. It was the final season of a two-year, $26 million pact.
His new deal will reportedly pay him $45 million.
Over 16 major league seasons, Beltran has batted .283 with 358 homers and 1,327 RBI. He spent his first 6 1/2 seasons playing for Kansas City and was dealt to the Astros during the 2004 campaign before signing his big free-agent deal with the Mets.
Beltran has appeared in the postseason just four times (2004, Astros; 2006, Mets; 2012-13 Cardinals). He has put up incredible numbers, however, with 16 home runs and 40 RBI in just 51 games.


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The Philomathean (Chappell Hill, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, October 1, 1886
Description: Monthly newspaper from Chappell Hill, Texas that includes local news and commentary related to the Chappell Hill Female College.
Date: October 1, 1886
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We know history, and we know that as a teacher, you know that history is important. Convincing your third-graders, however, is often less of a non-issue. For those young minds that are perhaps less partial to the past, we present: a collection of books that will help you get your students off their feet and into the moment before they really realize it.
Deur, Lynne. A Lumberjack's Story: A Chapter from the Great Lakes Past. Spring Lake, MI: River Road Publications, 1982.
Entine, Lynn. Our Great Lakes Connection: A Curriculum Guide for Grades Kindergarten Through Eight. n.p.: Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System (UW–Extension Environmental Resources Center), 1985.
Historical Society of Michigan. Immediately Michigan: Ready-to-Use, Award-Winning, K-12 Michigan Lessons. Available for purchase from The Historical Society of Michigan Center for Teaching Michigan History, 2117 Washtenaw Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48104-4599, (313/769-1828).
Barrett, Katharine, et al. Investigating Artifacts: Making Masks, Creating Myths, Exploring Middens Teacher's Guide. Berkeley, CA: Lawrence Hall of Science (Regents of the University of California), 1992 (REV. 1996). (grades K-6)
McCabe, Jean S. Learning About Michigan Indians: A Study Unit for Early Elementary Grades. Spring Lake, MI: River Road Publications, Inc., 1981.
McConnell, David B. Teacher's Guide for Forging the Peninsulas. Hillsdale, MI: Hillsdale Educational Publishers, 1990.
McConnell, David B., and Elizabeth B. Dewey. Michigan Activity Masters for Discover Michigan. Hillsdale, MI: Hillsdale Educational Publishers, 1985.
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Did my comment a minute ago disappear? I'd suggested you offer advice to people interested in starting groups in Apostate Atheists.
Also you might want to exchange notes with Jabal Kawanja who started an Atheist group in Kenya. http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/JabalKawanja
Oops, it looks as if you already did that in Atheists who were Muslims.
Perhaps you could share some of your successful techniques with Jabal Kawanja who's started an Atheist group in Kenya, and has had some struggles. Of course I doubt he could use the meetup technique, still...
You might also offer to give advice to anyone interested in starting a group both in Atheists who were Muslims and Apostate Atheists.
Welcome, Ibrahim! Glad you could join us. :D
Please consider joining a group to meet people and talk about anything that's on your mind, Hang With Friends. You might also like Apostate Atheists and Atheists Who Were Muslims.
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Game 12 [1 AP / 1 Coaches] Duke (11-0, 0-0 ACC) vs. UNC Greensboro (0-11, 0-2 SoCon)
Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010 • 7:00 p.m.
The Opening Tip
• Duke faces UNC Greensboro on Wednesday, Dec. 29 at the Greensboro Coliseum. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m.
• The game is being televised by ESPNU with Rob Stone (play-by-play) and Jay Bilas (analyst) calling the action.
• Duke is ranked No. 1 in the AP and ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll, while UNC Greensboro is unranked in both polls.
• The Blue Devils enter the contest 11-0 on the year, while the Spartans are 0-11 overall.
• Duke has won 21 consecutive games entering Wednesday's contest.
• Duke is seeking its 38th straight win against a team outside of the traditional power conferences (Big Ten, Big East, SEC, ACC, PAC-10, Big 12).
Duke vs. UNC Greensboro• Duke is 8-0 all-time against UNC Greensboro with a 2-0 mark at the Greensboro Coliseum.
• Duke has a +37.8 margin of victory in the eight wins over UNC Greensboro.
• Duke has scored 90 or more points in five of the eight meetings between the two schools.
Duke vs. Southern Conference• Duke is 141-24 all-time against teams currently in the Southern Conference.
• The Blue Devils have won 46 straight against Southern Conference opponents. Duke's last loss to a SoCon foe was 75-73 to Davidson on Dec. 29, 1981.
• Mike Krzyzewski has led the Blue Devils to a 46-2 record against schools currently in the Southern Conference.
Numbers Game
l Mike Krzyzewski is one win shy of moving into second place on the NCAA all-time wins list. He enters Wednesday's game tied with Dean Smith with 879 career victories.
l The Blue Devils have won 21 consecutive games dating back to a 79-72 loss at Maryland on March 3, 2010. Duke has won 29 of its last 30 games.
l Duke has won 11 straight games at the Greensboro Coliseum. The Blue Devils' last loss was a 95-87 overtime defeat to Maryland in the 2004 ACC Championship game.
l Mike Krzyzewski is 38-9 with the Blue Devils at the Greensboro Coliseum. Duke has won five ACC Championships under Coach K at the venue.
l Duke has won 38 consecutive games against teams outside the traditional power conferences (Big Ten, Big East, SEC, ACC, PAC 10, Big 12). Virginia Commonwealth's 79-77 win over Duke in the 2007 NCAA Tournament was the Blue Devils' last loss to a team from a non-power conference.
l Duke has scored 80 or more points in 10 games this season. The Blue Devils have won 25 consecutive games when scoring 80+ points. Duke is 492-46 under Coach K when scoring 80 or more points in a game.
l Seniors Kyle Singler and Nolan Smith have combined for 89 points in the last two games. Both players scored 20 or more points in the wins over Saint Louis and Elon. Singler and Smith combine to average 34.1 points per game on the year.
l Kyle Singler is averaging 20.7 points per game while shooting 50.0 percent (9-of-18) from three-point range in the last three games.
l Nolan Smith is expected to make his 50th consecutive start on Wednesday against UNC Greensboro. Duke is 44-5 (.898) during his string of starts.
l Duke is averaging 48.7 ppg. in the second half of play. The Blue Devils are shooting 55.9 percent (171-of-306) from the field, including 55.3 percent (63-of-114) from three-point range after halftime.
l The Blue Devils lead the ACC and rank third nationally in three-point field goal percentage (.436) and three-point field goals (9.6 3pg.). Duke has made 10 or more threes in a game five times and has made 49 more treys than its opposition on the year.
l Duke ranks third in the NCAA with a +25.8 scoring margin. The Blue Devils have won six games by 30 or more points.
Coach K has ...l 4 National Championships (most in league history)l 879 career wins (tied for second all-time)l 77 NCAA Tournament wins (first all-time)
l an NCAA-record 11 season with 30+ wins
l coached 9 National Players of the Year
(most in NCAA history)
l coached 9 National Defensive Players of the Year (most in NCAA history)
l 11 Final Four appearance (tied for second all-time)
l 12 ACC Tournament Championships
(second in league history)
l 15 season ranked No. 1 in the AP poll
(most in NCAA history)
l coached 15 NBA Lottery picks & 21 first round picks
(most by any coach)
l been named National Coach of the Year 12 times
l been named ACC Coach of the Year five times
l 3 gold medals as head coach of U.S. National Team


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Zoning board approves new Orange County high school
Two sides battle over 66 acres in Windermere
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A controversial new high school in Orange County moved one step closer to reality Friday night.
After a seven-hour hearing, the Orange County Board of Zoning Adjustment voted 4-2 in favor of a new campus in Windermere on the corner of Winter-Garden Vineland Road and Ficquette Road.
[PHOTOS: Proposed high school in Orange County]
The school is part of a district plan to ease overcrowding at West Orange High School, but several nearby residents are opposed to the proposal.
"We throw out the comprehensive plan, we throw out the land development code and we say sure, 'Build a massive high school bigger than a Walmart, bigger than a Best Buy and just plop it right here in the rural settlement,'" said Karen Consalo, an attorney representing residents who are opposed to the new school.
The two sides are battling over 66 acres in Windermere.
The zoning board was asked to sign off on approving a special exemption for the school to be built in that area, since the land is currently zoned as a residential rural settlement.
On one side of the debate are parents and students, who say a new school will ease crowding at West Orange High School. On the other side of the debate are residents who live nearby.
"We have a deal with Orange County that basically states if you live in this area, and there are 22 rural settlements, if you live in these areas there will be certain sizes of buildings, certain types of buildings that can be built there. Unfortunately, they did not follow through today on that," said Ricardo Cumberbatch, a resident who is opposed to the new school.
"I have four young ones, one who is going to be in high school in two years and the rest shortly there afterwards so we definitely need the high school sooner than later, it's important," said school supporter Judy Paulsen. "The children are our future."
The Orange County School District said they made modifications to their plans that will make the school conform to the "rural settlement" distinction, including limited lighting on the campus at night.
This issue will now go before the Orange County Commission for a final vote. That meeting has not yet been set, but will likely be in early November. However, both sides told Local 6 the issue could eventually wind up in court.
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