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For those of us that actually had some snow this season (it seems to have skipped much of the USA), winter appears to be winding up! Before the temperature warms is a great time to get those fantastic snowy photos scrapped. There is nothing better than pictures of kids frolicking in the snow. I don't know if it's kids' pent up energy or the cold temperatures outside that make such great snapshots. But if you are anything like me, you have pictures galore of miscellaneous snowman builds, skiing escapades, and fierce snowball fights. This month's newsletter is dedicated to saying goodbye to those fabulously freezing months of winter. Just look at what our amazing designers have for you.
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This month's quotes are intended to warm up those icy wordings.
"A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water." — Carl Reiner
"Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality." — Andy Goldsworthy
"I grew up thinking of snow as a luxury you visit." — John Landis
January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow." — Sara Coleridge
Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood." — Andy Goldsworthy
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt. — Walter Scott
Sensational Colors
Winter color schemes don't need to be all frosty. Mixing the icy blues you do associate with winter and a splash of a warm tone you don't, really makes a layout pop. I saw this particular color scheme featured in everything these past months, from 3 year old pajamas to holiday cards. It is really HOT, or COLD, depending on how you want to think about it!
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'I don't know why we didn't get the mortgages off our books," a senior quantitative analyst at a large American bank told me a few years ago. "I had a model strongly indicating that a lot of them wouldn't be repaid and I sent it to the head of our mortgage business."
When I asked the leader of the mortgage business why he'd ignored the advice, he said, "If the analyst showed me a model, it wasn't in terms I could make sense of. I didn't even know his group was working on repayment probabilities." The bank ended up losing billions in bad loans.
We live in an era of big data. Whether you work in financial services, consumer goods, travel and transportation, or industrial products, analytics are becoming a competitive necessity for your organisation. But as the banking example shows, having big data – and even people who can manipulate it successfully – is not enough. Companies need general managers who can partner effectively with "quants" to ensure that their work yields better strategic and tactical decisions.
For people fluent in analytics – such as
So what does the shift toward data-driven decision making mean for you? How do you avoid the fate of the loss-making mortgage bank head and instead lead your company into the analytical revolution, or at least become a good foot soldier in it? This article – a primer for non-quants – is based on extensive interviews with executives, including some with whom I've worked as a teacher or a consultant.
Start by thinking of yourself as a consumer of analytics. The producers are the quants whose analyses and models you'll integrate with your business experience and intuition as you make decisions. Producers are, of course, good at gathering the available data and making predictions about the future. But most lack sufficient knowledge to identify hypotheses and relevant variables and to know when the ground beneath an organisation is shifting.
Your job as a data consumer – to generate hypotheses and determine whether results and recommendations make sense in a changing business environment – is therefore critically important. This means accepting a few key responsibilities. Some require only changes in attitude and perspective; others demand a bit of study.
If you remember the content of your college-level statistics course, you may be fine. If not, bone up on the basics of regression analysis, statistical inference and experimental design. You need to understand the process for making analytical decisions, including when you should step in as a consumer, and you must recognise that every analytical model is built on assumptions that producers ought to explain and defend. As famous statistician George Box noted: "All models are wrong, but some are useful." In other words, models intentionally simplify our complex world.
To become more data literate, enrol in an executive education program in statistics, take an online course, or learn from the quants in your organisation by working closely with them on one or more projects.
The vice-president of clinical operations at
So Joy reached out to Cigna's analytics group, in particular to the experts on experimental design – the only analytical approach that can potentially demonstrate cause and effect. She learned, for example, that she could conduct pilot studies to discover which segments of her targeted population benefit the most (and which the least) from her call centre's services.
Specifically, she uses analytics to "prematch" pairs of patients, then to randomly assign one member of the pair to receive those services, while the other gets an alternative such as a mail-order or an online-support intervention. Each pilot lasts just a couple of months, and multiple studies are run simultaneously – so Joy now gets information about the effectiveness of her programs on a rolling basis.
In the end, Joy and her quant partners learned that the coaching worked for people with certain diseases but not for other patients, and some call centre staff members were redeployed as a result. Now her group regularly conducts 20 to 30 such tests a year to find out what really makes a difference for patients.
Joy may not understand all of the methodological details but, as
Of course, highly analytical people are not always known for their social skills, so this can be hard work. As one wag jokingly advised, "Look for the quants who stare at your shoes, instead of their own, when you engage them in conversation." But it's possible to find people who communicate well and have a passion for solving business – rather than mathematical – problems and, after you've established a relationship, to encourage frank dialogue and data-driven dissent between the two of you.
Bank of America has hundreds of quants, but most of them were pooled in a group that managers could not easily access. Knox insisted on having her own analytics team, and she established a strong working relationship with its members through frequent meetings and project-reporting sessions.
She worked especially closely with two team leaders, Justin Addis and Michael Hyzy, who have backgrounds in retail banking and Six Sigma, so they were able to understand her unit's business problems and communicate them to the hard-core quants they manage.
After Knox set the precedent, Bank of America created a matrix structure for its analysts in the consumer bank, and most now report to both a business line and a centralised analytical group.
Framing a problem – identifying it and understanding how others might have solved it in the past – is the most important stage of the analytical process for a big data consumer. It's where your business experience and intuition matter most. After all, a hypothesis is simply a hunch about how the world works. The difference with analytical thinking, of course, is that you use rigorous methods to test the hypothesis.
For example, executives at the two corporate parent organisations of Transitions Optical believed that the photochromic lens company might not be investing in marketing at optimal levels, but no empirical data confirmed or refuted that idea.
The head of the marketing division at the time,
If you're a non-quant, you should also focus on the final step in the process – presenting and communicating results to other executives – because it's one that many quants discount or overlook and that you'll probably have to take on yourself at some point.
If analytics is largely about "telling a story with data", what type of story would you favour? What kind of language and tone would you use? Should the story be told in narrative or visual terms? What types of graphics do you like? No matter how sophisticated their analyses, quants should be encouraged to explain their results in a straightforward way that everyone can understand, or you should do it for them. A statistical methods story ("first we ran a chi-square test, then we converted the categorical data to ordinal; next we ran a logistic regression, then we lagged the economic data by a year") is rarely acceptable.
Many businesspeople settle on a return on investment (ROI) story: how will the new decision-making model increase conversions, revenue, or profitability? For example, a
Before ROI analysis, he and the group discuss what actions they will take when they find out whether promotions are highly, marginally, or not successful – to make clear that the effort isn't merely an academic exercise. After the analysis, the executive sits the analysts down at a table with his management team to present and debate the results.
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No matter how much you trust your quants, keep asking them tough questions. Here are a few that almost always lead to more rigorous, defensible analyses. (If you don't understand a reply, ask for one that uses simpler language.)
What was the source of your data?
How well does the sample data represent the population?
Does your data distribution include outliers? How did they affect the results?
What assumptions are behind your analysis? Might certain conditions render your assumptions and your model invalid?
Why did you decide on that analytical approach? What alternatives did you consider?
How likely is it that the independent variables are actually causing the changes in the dependent variable? Might other analyses establish causality more clearly?
The chief financial officer and managing partner for finance and administration of
He has assembled a group of data scientists and quantitative analysts to help him with several initiatives, including optimising the pricing of services, developing models that predict employee performance, and identifying factors that drive receivables. "People who work with me know I question a lot – everything – always," Friedman says. "After the questioning, they know they will have to go back and redo some of their analyses."
He also believes it's vital to admit when you don't understand something: "I know I am not the smartest person in the room in my meetings with these people. I'm always pushing for greater clarity [because] if I can't articulate it, I can't defend it to others."
We all know how easily "figures lie and liars figure". Analytics consumers should never pressure their producers with comments like: "See if you can find some evidence in the data to support my idea." Instead, your explicit goal should be to find the truth. As the head of Merck's commercial analytics group says, "Our management team wants us to be like Switzerland. We work only for the shareholders."
In fact, some senior executives push their analysts to play devil's advocate. This sets the right cultural tone and helps to refine the models. "All organisations seek to please the leader," explains
Loveman encourages his subordinates to put forth data and analysis rather than opinions, and reveals his own faulty hypotheses, conclusions, and decisions. That way managers and quants alike understand that his sometimes "lame and ill-considered views", as he describes them, need as much objective, unbiased testing as anyone else's.
For example, he often says that his greatest mistake as a new CEO was choosing not to fire property managers who didn't share his analytical orientation. He thought their experience would be enough. Loveman uses the example to show both that he's fallible and that he insists on being a consumer of analytics.
Contrast the bank mentioned at the beginning of this article with
TD's emphasis on data and analytics affects other areas of the business as well. Compensation is closely tied to performance-management measures, for example. And TD's branches stay open longer than most other banks' because the former head of retail banking,
If anyone at a management meeting suggests a new direction, he or she is pressed for data and analysis to support it. TD is not perfect, Clark acknowledges, but "nobody ever accuses us of not running the numbers".
Your organisation may not be as analytical as TD, and your CEO may not be like Ed Clark. But that doesn't mean you can't become a great consumer of analytics on your own – and set an example for the rest of your company.
When using big data to make big decisions, non-quants should focus on the first and the last steps of the process. The numbers people typically handle the details in the middle, but wise non-quants ask lots of questions along the way.
Frame the decision or business problem, and identify possible alternatives to the framing.
Identify people who have tried to solve this problem
or similar ones – and the approaches they used.
Formulate a detailed hypothesis about how particular variables affect the outcome.
Gather primary and secondary data on
the hypothesised variables.
Run a statistical model, assess its appropriateness for
the data, and repeat the process until a good fit is found.
Use the data to tell a story to decision makers and
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This project in Berlins trendy Friedrichshain district consists of a renovated Altbau building and a new build, together containing 25 apartments and one commercial unit.
The Altbau, dating back to the turn of the century, retains many classic features, including large doorways, original staircases and high ceilings. As part of the renovations a lift will be fitted to the front house. Rooms range from studios to three-bed apartments, and for those wanting a more expansive floorplan there is the potential to combine to neighbouring or stacked apartments. The two penthouse apartments come with generously sized roof terraces and skylights. All apartments will be fitted with a modern bathroom.
The Neubau consists of seven apartments in a garden house behind the Altbau building.
There are three single-level apartments and four maisonettes, ranging in size from 90 to 187 square metres. The maisonettes have been designed so that the top floor of each lies directly above the lower floor of its neighbour this unusual crossed layout means that each maisonette benefits from as much natural light as possible throughout the day. The ground floor flats come with a private garden and terrace, and the penthouses each have a private roof terrace. Friedrichshain has undergone a surprising personality change in recent years. Once simply a workers quarter, the district has undergone significant development and is now known for its creative and trendy atmosphere. Fredersdorfer Strasse is a quiet side street in this buzzing district, within walking distance of cultural hot spots such as the Oberbaumbrucke and the famous Eastside Gallery. The location is excellent; journeys to Alexanderplatz take just 10 minutes from the nearby Weberwiese underground station.
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Best of all, they can give your desktop a hip edge. I picked out a collection of my favorites:
1. Lytegem Telescopic Persimmon and Gunmetal Desk Lamp – a reissue from an original designed in 1965 by Michael Lax. It comes in white and black too.
2. George Kovacs Chrome and Black Balance Arm Desk Lamp – A slim little footprint means that this hipster won't take up your valuable desk space.
3. Pierced Pattern Fabric Shades 5-Light Table Lamp – This table lamp brightens your work space overall. It's not a task light but its subtle pattern is very office friendly.
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5. Possini Euro Design Contempo Flower Acrylic Shade Table Lamp – If your office is a bit Plain Jane then this table lamp adds a story.
6. Possini Euro Design On the Square Accent Table Lamp – More of an accent lamp, this looker is designed to brighten overall. It has that retro charm and the dimmer switch on the base is easy to use.
7. George Kovacs Round Glass Stick Desk Lamp – If you're down with the space-age then the neat adjusting mechanism of this desk lamp might grab you.
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10. Marius Task Desk Lamp – The marble shade looks great when lit and the easy-to-grasp dimmer switch on the base is super convenient.
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Ivey Skipping 2011 WSOP, Suing Tiltware
Phil Ivey will skip the 2011 WSOP and is suing Tiltware according to a statement he released late Tuesday.
Ivey issued the statement via his Facebook fan page and argued that because Full Tilt had not paid their U.S. players back he did not feel right playing at the WSOP when other players couldn't.
It's the first time that Ivey has spoken publically about Full Tilt since online poker's Black Friday and the site was forced to leave the U.S. market.
Although many poker players first assumed the statement was a hoax, it was later confirmed through Ivey's manager.
Ivey did not play the $25,000 Heads-Up Championship event that started earlier today.
What follows is the statement in its entirety. Note: the statement first appeared in six separate updates.
For many years, I have been proud to call myself a poker player. This great sport has taken me to places I only imagined going and I have been blessed with much success. It is therefore with deep regret that I believe I am compelled to release the following statement.
I am deeply disappointed and embarrassed that Full Tilt players have not been paid money they are owed. I am equally embarrassed that as a result many players cannot compete in tournaments and have suffered economic harm.
I am not playing in the World Series of Poker as I do not believe it is fair that I compete when others cannot. I am doing everything I can to seek a solution to the problem as quickly as possible.
My name and reputation have been dragged through the mud, through the inactivity and indecision of others and on behalf of all poker players I refuse to remain silent any longer. I have electronically filed a lawsuit against Tiltware related to the unsettled player accounts. As I am sure the public can imagine, this was not an easy decision for me.
I wholeheartedly refuse to accept non-action as to repayment of players funds and I am angered that people who have supported me throughout my career have been treated so poorly.
I sincerely hope this statement will ignite those capable of resolving the problems into immediate action and would like to clarify that until a solution is reached that cements the security of all players, both US and International, I will, as I have for the last six weeks, dedicate the entirety of my time and efforts to finding a solution for those who have been wronged by the painfully slow process of repayment.
PokerListings.com will have more on this story as it develops as well as reactions from players at the 2011 WSOP.
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Milwaukee Talks: FM 102.1's Jacent Jackson
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OMC: Can you explain the Milwaukee Radio Alliance?
JJ: WLUM is part of what I like to call a radio co-op called the Milwaukee Radio Alliance. In the '90s radio was deregulated and as a result large Wall Street-driven corporations swallowed stations up. Two owners who had individual ownership never sold out but instead moved in together and formed an LLC. WLUM is owned by Green Bay Packer legend Willie Davis. He owns an AM station called WMCS that serves the African American community. Our sister station is WLDB, which is owned by a family that owns the Scranton Times. Yep, THAT Scranton. They are hardscrabble there, I tell you.
OMC: How else is 102.1 different from other radio stations?
JJ: It is independently owned and run by a group of like-minded weirdoes who got their start doing non-commercial radio and are now basically doing a grown-up version of a college radio station. It's different in that everyone here uses their actual name on the air and doesn't pretend to be something they are not. It's different in that we make all of our own decisions in trying to reach the broadest market possible for our advertisers. All of that is pretty different. Look, it's not as if commercial radio is getting great press. We all feel like we're hanging out in a bomb shelter watching the Wall Street radio mess work itself out.
It's not different in that it is a commercial radio station. We're trusted here, but we are expected to be profitable and get ratings. So, thank you for supporting free, ad-supported commercial radio. You don't have to write a check to us, someone else will. The downside is you don't get a tote bag.
OMC: If you could play any five bands on air what bands would you play?
JJ: We actually talked about doing this. Once a week a DJ takes an hour and plays whatever and explains why they like it. I would like to play any and all Afghan Whigs, any and all Concrete Blonde, any and all by The Format, and any and all early '90s hip-hop, especially pass-the-mic jams like "The Symphony" by the Juice Crew. Speaking of Juice, I would like to karaoke over the ending to "The Rain" by Oran "Juice" Jones. Best kiss off song of all time
OMC: Where do you live? Are you married? Kids?
JJ: I live in Wauwatosa. Good folks, good schools and I don't have to try to be cool, which works out since I am not really that cool. Wauwatosa is not pretentious. It beats the hell out living in Wicker Park in Chicago. Wicker Park Chicago is a bunch of people from Des Moines who are trying too hard. I'm 34 or 35, depending on when this interview runs. I am happily married and have two little ones under 3 years old that I affectionately call Pineapple Sauce and Baby Hank.
OMC: What makes a good radio personality?
JJ: Someone who can find life interesting and isn't afraid to share it.
OMC: If you weren't on the radio, what would you be doing?
JJ: Working in advertising. I got into radio while getting an advertising degree at the University of Illinois. Got recruited by Phillip Morris in college, and passed to do a morning show in Lansing, Michigan. Thirteen years later it still feels like the right move.
OMC: Kramp or Adler?
JJ: How dare you! I think they're made for each other. I also think they are what's next in Milwaukee radio. I know old habits are hard to break, but try something new, won't you?
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Posts from April 26, 2005
Holding hands
Holding hands
: Bush is going to regret this photo.
: UPDATE: Great layout of the picture in a Texas paper.
It takes a village to be a newspaper
It takes a village to be a newspaper
: In a wonderful comment under a post below, Bala Pillai of Maylasia.net pointed to an interview that has an eloquent expression of what news should be — a parallel to Hugh McLeod's oft-quoted (by me) contention that newspapers must stop thinking of themselves as things but as places where people come together to do good things. Bala Pillai:
I remember in my village where I grew up in Malaysia. When there was no media there. When we needed to find out what was happening in the neighboring village. Weíd send one of us over. Heíd go over. And talk to the headman. Get the party platform from him. And on his way back he'd go have a haircut at that village's barber. And there he'd get the grapevine. And between the two versions he narrates to us…See that was media for us that were news….
See what matters most to the village = media ok the reason is this… media used to be equal to community… because what mattered most to community equaled to the community… and what mattered most = media = community, as time went on, specialists creeped in… And in time the agency phenomena took over. Agency phenomena = agents become principals (another e.g. –> govt servants become masters) and thus media diverged from community. Media no more represented community. Nature abhors these divergences. It pushes towards equilibrium. So there was pressure to have facilities to enable this convergence and thus social software and citizen journalism
Beautifully put.
The star shat in the woods
The star shat in the woods
: PunditGuy is having a proper fit over celebrities discovering the unpaved earth:
Drew Barrymore Quote of the Day: "I took a poo in the woods hunched over like an animal. It was awesome."
The great American pastime, remixed
The great American pastime, remixed
: Andrew Sullivan goes to a baseball game:
LOVED IT: I take it all back. The Nationals-Phillies game was great fun at RFK last night. Vile but irresistible hot dogs; a new foodstuff known as dippin' dots; occasional flashes of excitement interrupted by really hot guys with guts spitting into the grass; and, the piece de resistance, Karl Rove down front, chatting on his cell-phone. We had a blast.
Does Karl Rove qualify as a hot guy with a gut spitting?
Exploding TV
Exploding TV
: Rafat Ali has the story behind the Open Media Network, another means — like OurMedia and Brightcove — to distribute multimedia content without a old, closed network. I downloaded the ap and player (it wouldn't work via Firefox, only IE) and watched my favorite vlog, Rocketboom.
Tipping point… or melting point?
Tipping point… or melting point?
: Just got the Wilson Quarterly with its cover story on "The Collapse of Big Media." Getaloada the intro:
Collapse is not too strong a word to describe what has happened to America's major news media. Stripped of their old economic and technological advantages, befuddled by the changing character of their audiences, and beset by new competitors, they are reeling from the blows recent scandals have dealt to their credibility and presige. Their old authority is one, and with it, perhaps their ability to define for Americans a shared realm of information, ideas and debate."
Youch. That pretty much summarizes the melting point.
: Stats from WQ compliled from many sources:
* Daily newspaper circ from 1990 to 2003: 62.3 to 55.2 million
* Number of daily U.S. papers from 1990 to 2003: 1,611 to 1,456
* By age group, percentage of Americans who read a paper yesterday: 18-29 – 23, 30-49 – 39, 50-64 – 52, 60+ – 60
* Time spent by 8-19 year olds on all media: 6 hours, 21 minutes; time spent on print media: 43 minutes
* Combined viewership of network evening news: 1980 – 52 million, 2004 – 28.8 million
* Median age of network news viewer: 60
* Percentage of people who believe all or most of what's on: network news – 24, CNN – 32, FoxNews – 25, C-Span – 27, PBS NewsHour – 23
: See also Chris Anderson's many stats on the media meltdown here.
* Music: sales last year were down 21% from their peak in 1999
* Television: network TV's audience share has fallen by a third since 1985
* Radio: listenership is at a 27-year low
* Newspapers: circulation peaked in 1987, and the decline is accelerating
* Magazines: total circulation peaked in 2000 and is now back to 1994 levels (but a few premier titles are bucking the trend!)
* Books: sales growth is lagging the economy as whole
: See tipping-point posts here, here, and here. And much media here.
: And from PaidContent, see links to the Deloitte report on the not-so-bright future of network TV and Mary Meeker's powerpoint on the ad challenges. See this amazing chart from Meeker's presentation. Compare the ad dollars spent per household in each medium and guess where this is going:
And see this on classifieds in papers vs. eBay (and this doesn't include CraigsList!):
(Unfortunately in-)frequently asked questions
(Unfortunately in-)frequently asked questions
: The Media Center — the real forward thinkers and nudgers in the news business — asks a few great questions in their latest brief tome (a pdf):
OLD QUESTION: What is the future of newspapers?
REALLY ASKING: Will editors and reporters have jobs in five years?
SHOULD ASK: How is a connected society informed? Whatís paper got to do with it? What future are newspapers and TV networks creating? What story do they represent?
OLD QUESTION: Whatís the no-kidding business model for newspaper companies?
REALLY ASKING: Do we really trust this Internet thing?
SHOULD ASK: Which business models enabled by the Internet and mobile, digital technologies best serve an informed, connected society? Can news enterprises reimagine their businesses?
OLD QUESTION: How do we make money?
REALLY ASKING: How do we continue doing what weíve always done, maintain high margins, and control markets?
SHOULD ASK: What are alternatives to the advertising subsidy? What business models can capitalize journalism-based businesses? What is the value proposition for new forms of journalism?
OLD QUESTION: From where will journalism come?
REALLY ASKING: Do we really trust other citizens with journalism?
SHOULD ASK: How will a generation of talented storytellers use multiple forms of media to create and share stories that are relevant to the citizens of an always-on world?


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Mr. FARR. Madam Chair, I rise today to express my appreciation for the House Armed Services Committee's acceptance of my amendment on the importance of foreign language and cultural education in the military. While the concept of military-to-military engagement is not new, it has an increasing level of importance in our contemporary operating environment. While most military training focuses on servicemembers being able to engage with the enemy, it is equally important to educate servicemembers on cultures and foreign language so that when we partner with foreign militaries and engage in capacity building, we can speak their language and understand their culture.
The Chief of Staff of the Army, General Odierno, and the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Admiral Stavridis, have argued that the future of our defense strategy requires strong relationships with capable partners. Unfortunately, there is a language and cultural capability gap in the Department of Defense, an organization that operates globally to accomplish its mission yet has less than 10% whom speak a second language. Effective partner capacity building requires the kind of relationships that cannot be built through using an interpreter alone.
Our military's ability to understand cultures and languages in Iraq and Afghanistan has taken a long and costly road. That road's most valuable lesson is that our military personnel need the capacity to understand foreign cultures and languages before they are deployed. The ability of our junior and senior military leaders to build partnerships and partner capacity requires training in culture and languages not only in times of conflict but also in times of peace.
Two world class military installations in my district provide this critically needed education to all the Services. The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center and the Naval Postgraduate School educate military personnel in the languages and cultures of our partners. Investment in language and culture enhances readiness for military intelligence, Special Forces, and general-purpose forces at a low cost. This capability enables servicemembers to connect with our partnering countries at the unit level where the mission is executed.
America's strategic challenges, including a pivot to the Pacific region that has more than 70 countries and more than 100 regional and national languages, will generate additional requirements for language and put additional strain on the current capacity for skilled foreign language analysts, Foreign Area Officers, military intelligence personnel, and attachés. We must meet the demand and respond proactively.
Madam Chair, again, I am appreciative of the committee's support of foreign language capability and cultural understanding in the military and look forward to working with them in the future to ensure our military is resourced to meet the strategic demands of the future.
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