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Private equity firms no longer have the option of skipping an assessment of a portfolio company's digital capabilities. But how do you conduct one that's objective and relevant to your target? We spoke with Scott Koerner of Chief Outsiders about how GPs can make sure every company in the portfolio isn't left playing analog in a digital world.
The days of ignoring the digital revolution are over, regardless of the size of the business. GPs need to properly assess the digital situation of their entire portfolio to understand every company's complete competitive situation, in order to best gauge the eventual return on the investment.
Recently, we spoke to Scott Koerner of Chief Outsiders, who has served as the CEO of a pure-play e-commerce business, held numerous senior executive roles in digital commerce and online marketing, including at businesses owned by private equity firms. And now he's a fractional CMO at Chief Outsiders, helping to upgrade marketing strategies and creating digital transformation at both public and privately held companies.
Analog costs
"Every private equity firm is looking to maximize value in the near term, and they can't do that without addressing the level of digital sophistication of the Company," says Koerner. He recalled working at a billion-dollar company that owned its category, but still took orders by phone, email and fax.
"That might have been sufficient a few years ago, but not any longer. If a Company isn't moving to digitize its operations, its competition will. That means the Company will lose customers, generate lower revenue and profits, and eventually, provide an underwhelming exit to their PE owners."
Koerner's experience has been that companies that lag behind in terms of their digital capabilities are slower to report to their PE owners as well. "I've worked with companies that have been late reporting performance data and that's made it even harder for private equity owners to manage the investment." Upgrading the portfolio company's digital framework improves data and analytics, enabling quick access to performance metrics, allowing for more rapid decision making.
In most cases, every business is already in some stage of a digital transformation, where they're translating business activities from an analog to a digital solution. "Within a private equity portfolio, digital capabilities can vary wildly," says Koerner. "So they have to be reviewed on a case-by-case basis, with the goal of creating enough digital parity among the companies' D&A competency, that they can create a single dashboard representing all portfolio companies. This allows for quick assessments of performance across the portfolio."
Given his marketing background, Koerner's advice for GPs assessing digital situations is informed with an eye on the market. "GPs may conduct diligence into a Company's information technology, but ignore the digital elements of a marketing effort." The best way to avoid that blind spot is to a conduct the assessment with four key questions in mind.
Is the Company where the customer is?
An enterprise with proper digital capabilities has the power to be exactly where the customer is. Customers don't leaf through a phone book anymore; they go online to begin their hunt, searching for vendors and reviews. Customers want to transact online, since that's what they're used to doing, and mobile is quickly becoming the transaction device of choice. The company's digital tools need to work to provide a frictionless process for the customer to reach the Company, get all the information on the Company's products and/or services, and create transactions easily, regardless of the device the customer uses.
Is the Company leveraging data for a competitive advantage?
Digital marketing can ensure that every marketing dollar is well-spent with a maximum ROI. But that requires using data to assess any effort. "Analog marketing is hard to attribute to a given transaction, but with robust data analytics, every digital marketing dollar gets tracked," says Koerner. Additionally, this data can help the Company understand the customer, segment customers by value to the business, identify how and where to reach the most valuable segments, and even determine how to maximize customer retention.
Are the marketing/sales/service functions collaborating?
For smaller businesses that haven't had to upgrade from their analog beginnings, it can be easy for the marketing, sales and service functions to all operate in silos, unaware of what each is doing. "But if all these divisions operate within a single digital platform, they can share the same information and build off their collective intelligence," says Koerner.
"From a service perspective, the ability for the customer to self-serve is one of the best ways for companies to create value, because it reduces the need for customer service agents to interact with clients. They can take care of issues on their own."
Koerner cites the use of AI as a way to help customers get the support they need, rather than relying on customer reps answering phones.
How much time is spent by the salesforce actually selling?
The more time sales executives spend with the Company's customers offering support, new solutions, new products and services, the more sales will be generated. If, on the other hand, sales executives are spending more time taking and handholding orders to make sure they get fulfilled properly, sales will suffer, customers will be lost, and sales executives will be frustrated. Creating a robust digital framework will maximize the selling effort and reduce customer attrition.
Enter the digital guru
But Koerner is quick to point out that a proper digital assessment needs to be a 360 degree look at the Company's operations, beyond the marketing function. One of the best ways for private equity firms to conduct them is to tap a Chief Digital Officer (CDO) for the effort, preferably one with experience at a Fortune 500 Company to ensure they can manage the complexity of a private equity portfolio.
"This role really serves two responsibilities," says Koerner. The first responsibility is to assess the current roster of portfolio companies and suggest what needs to be undertaken at each business, so that every Company is using the most advanced digital tools for their industry. "A capable CDO will prioritize upgrades so the GP is only paying for the most vital improvements, rather than undertaking a full digital transformation all at once," says Koerner.
The second responsibility for a CDO is to review potential investments, and make a set of recommendations, so the GP knows what will be required to bring that Company up to speed. "This way, they can bake that digital investment into the price they pay for the asset," says Koerner.
And for GPs still hesitating on making digital diligence a priority, Koerner warns they will be sacrificing competitiveness and exit value. The return on the investment is tangible and the work needed to accomplish the right outcome is simpler than one might expect.
"The digital revolution isn't slowing down, and in the years to come, companies that lag their peers will pay a huge price. And with many GPs still reluctant to take the digital plunge, those that do will benefit that much more. Stay ahead of the pack, transform your portfolio with a solid digital framework. Your investors will thank you for it."
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Q: CodeIgniter: Page not found when passing parameters to a controller? I'm trying to pass parameters to a control in codeigniter, but I'm getting 404 page not found error, I don't get it, I did what the guide says: https://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/controllers.html#passing-uri-segments-to-your-methods
When I remove the params in the index function and just access the controller everything works fine, but I can't pass a value to it...
Here is the code the way I'm trying to send a param: http://mysite/123
<?php
class Main extends Controller {

    function index($username) {

        echo $username;

    }

}
?>

How can I get more info regarding this error from codeigniter?
Thank you.

A: The URL needs to be http://mysite/Main/index/123.
CodeIgniter URLs are http://<url>/<Controller>/<Method>/<params>.

A: Check out the /application/config/routes.php file and set the default controller to main like this:
$route['default_controller'] = 'main';

A: //For CI 2.0.2
//main.php
<?php
class Main extends CI_Controller {

    function index($username) {

        echo $username;

    }

}
?>

// application/config/routes.php
$route['default_controller'] = 'main';
And then try this in URL::
http://mysite/index.php/main/index/123
hope this works for you

A: As far as I know, the data is passed only when there are more than two uri segments.
Try this,
<?php
class Main extends Controller {

    function index() {
        $username = $this->uri->segment(3);
        echo $username;
    }
}
?>

And then go to http://mysite/index.php/main/index/123

A: Add this function into your control.  This will help out get passing arg into index function if method doesn't.
    function _remap($method)
    {
      $param_offset = 2;

      // Default to index
      if ( ! method_exists($this, $method))
      {
        // We need one more param
        $param_offset = 1;
        $method = 'index';
      }

      // Since all we get is $method, load up everything else in the URI
      $params = array_slice($this->uri->rsegment_array(), $param_offset);

      // Call the determined method with all params
      call_user_func_array(array($this, $method), $params);
    }

A: route file in add this code and any parameters accepted for your home page
$route['default_controller'] = 'main';
$route['(:any)'] = "main/$1";

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Smart phones and technologies continue to rise by both volume of users and capability, with projections setting the anticipated number of users at a staggering 2.08 billion for 2016 – up from 1.86 billion in 2015. Meanwhile, market researcher App Annie suggest the app economy will double in size to $101 billion by 2020 – signalling huge potential for innovation and growth in the mobile market. Mobile digital media time in the US is now significantly higher at 51% compared to desktop (42%) (Mary Meeker's 2015 Internet Trends Analysis).
This rapid adoption of smart mobile technology has huge implications at enterprise level, with consumer expectations about user experience and accessibility now being demanded of their work tools. A seamless mobile user experience is crucial for the growth and survival of enterprise apps. As telecommuting and flexible working continue to grow also, employers will increasingly seek solutions that empower better remote collaboration and efficiency – leaving those collaboration tools without effective mobile components obsolete.
As SharePoint announced last month that it's collaboration tool would now be available for mobile, beginning with iOS, it's clear enterprise applications are recognizing this growing need to cater to the mobile market. However, reservations about security concerns and a lack of integration with third parties has meant employee demand has exceeded actual deployment. Despite cloud computing reporting a marked increase in adoption and a growth in BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) cultures, cross-device challenges or a focus on replicating desktop applications with a 'mobile ready' version has held the industry back.
According to Microsoft, 66% of business leaders reported the need to allow employees to work anywhere at any time ' and 73% of knowledge workers report the need to collaborate with different people in different time zones and regions at least monthly. A business that enables effective mobile collaboration can rise to these increasing demands for globalization and 24/7 access to work and collaboration tools, supporting a flexible working culture.
Mobile collaboration will also drive efficiency and innovation, supplying competitive advantage for adopters. By empowering employees with the necessary tools to create a centralized digital workspace, business leaders will reap the rewards of higher rates of engagement, productivity and employee autonomy. Individuals will discover new ways to get work done and tap into the knowledge of their peers and colleagues. Making business processes and workflows mobile-centric and linear will cut down on wasted time; a BYOD culture can also present significant real estate costings and a reduction in support and maintenance overheads.
Design and functionality: user expectations are set by their experience of everyday social networking, communication and interactive tools. Select collaboration tools that embed these same functionalities – @mentioning, #tagging, blogging, messaging, forums and more. Intuitive and simplistic interfaces that use social collaboration as their foundation will support uptake and usage – and, ultimately, collaboration.
Integration capabilities: collaboration, by definition, involves working together: and this includes the integration of different platforms to work seamlessly alongside one another. This may include your cloud storage, messaging platforms or any API tools required for successful collaboration – all need to work in sync.
Innovative mobile technologies: mobile collaboration should go beyond the desktop. The capabilities of consumer applications and smart devices should be tapped into in order to enhance the user experience; for example, touchscreen technologies and tablets in particular allow for sketching or drawing of ideas and concepts, empowering users with 3D visualizations and the ability to share, annotate and create rich media within the working environment.
App, not mobile web: Research by Yahoo's Flurry on mobile media time shows a stark user preference for mobile apps over their mobile site versions, accounting for 90% of media time. While this is influenced, as expected, by consumer time in social media sites such as Facebook or Twitter, messaging apps and gaming, the preference is still indicative of a larger trend. Given the focus on simplicity, ease of use and mobile-specific interfaces that are tailored to user experience, they tend to have better long-term prospects in the market.
If SharePoint's example is anything to judge by, enterprise vendors will be working hard in 2016 and beyond to address user demands for mobile collaboration applications that enable business users to feel fully empowered and engaged through an integrated suite of collaboration tools. Design, functionality, integrations and a "mobile first" approach are paramount if both business leaders and vendors are to rise to the challenge.


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Put three measures of decaf in the pot this morning, and it is the same old deal. Not much there, almost like kissing your sister or something like that. I sure do miss my regular coffee. Had a nice post worked up and I again lost it. I wish the Mac had an auto-save feature or something like that, I always forget to run the save, and then I find myself lost as a goose later on. Seem to be doing this quite regular now and it is just irritating the fizz out of me.
Yesterday I was in town mailing some stuff. You cannot mail stuff in the country anymore, it often disappears. We have a new wrinkle in the fabric of country living, they are called "mailbox shoppers." They drive up and down country roads, opening the mailboxes and removing the contents (outgoing mail with checks in the envelopes) and then later "wash the checks" and cheat you. It is better to take your mail to town now.
I am in town and I hear a voice call out … "Mr. Smith? Hey Mr. Smith." So I turn around to see who it is, and there is this kid of about 22 years of age standing there, and he says, "Hello Mr. Smith, how are you?" Well, I didn't have a clue, not a single one.
Now it quickly returns to me and I smile and say, "Well lad, you certainly have changed a great deal." I remembered "Lil Andy" from when he was a mere speck of a child and his Daddy, who is sadly now gone.
When Lil Andy was first born they named him William Andrew Williamson with the full intention of calling him "Bill." But from day one, the family just naturally gravitated to the "Lil Andy" thing. So from that point on, they all referred to the small red-headed child as Lil Andy.
When he reached the age of five, the parents decided to tell him what was going on and of course, end some of the confusion about his first name. So one night at the supper table his Dad looked down at him and inquired of the five year old, "Do you know why we named you William Andrew Williamson?" and the youngster shook his head in a negative fashion.
The child sat there and thought on the information a little.
Ah, the wisdom of a five year old.
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Atomic Annie
This was the only artillery piece that ever fired nukes. It was at Ft. Sill the only time I saw it back in 1969.
The first artillery test was on May 25, 1953 at the Nevada Test Site. Fired as part of Operation Upshot-Knothole and codenamed Shot GRABLE, a 280 mm (11 inch) shell with a gun-type fission warhead was fired 10,000 m (6.2 miles) and detonated 160 m (525 feet) above the ground with an estimated yield of 15 kilotons. This was the only nuclear artillery shell ever actually fired in the US test program. The shell was 1384 mm (4.5 feet) long and weighed 365 kg (805 lb); it was fired from a special artillery piece, nicknamed "Atomic Annie", built by the Artillery Test Unit of Fort Sill, Oklahoma
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_artillery
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#2 • Oct 11, 2007 (Edited)
Thanks for sharing. Interesting item for sure.
looks almost like the old German WW1 railroad guns.
Gold Bullet Member and Noted Curmudgeon
Actually looks more like a WWII GErman Railroad gun. To wit, a 28cm K5(e) ("Kanone 5 in Eisenbahn Lafette", meaning "11 inch Cannon model 5 in Railroad carriage") - like "Leopold", captured in Italy where it was part of the "Anzio Annie" pair. Brought back for test and evaluation, one was scrapped, the other remained at Aberdeen. Where it sits right across the street from an example of "Atomic Annie".
One of the unique things about the K5(e) was its "dual recoil" system that included a moving upper carriage, which was borrowed for our 280mm.
Absent comrades (sound of breaking glass)
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There is another in Albuquerque, New Mexico
one of the "Atomic Annies" at the Atomic History Museum, "The National Atomic Museum is located in the heart of Old Town Albuquerque, along Museum Corridor."
I guess they have moved since I was there, but it is well worth the trip. They have the atomic bomb casings that were lost off of Spain in the late 1960's, and a number of interesting displays. I can't speak for their displays now, but they were any thing but politically correct when I was there!
http://www.atomicmuseum.com/
http://www.atomicmuseum.com/index.cfm
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munrod
it's been 25 years since I've been there but there is (or was) one on the hillside across the interstate opposite the Fort Riley KS main post.
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."
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That (a 280) would be an interesting gate-guard.
The gun at Ft Riley is still there along with an M114 and another field gun - and seems like something else? It is Not an atomic cannon, I think it is a 175mm Howitzer, towed. Actually it is over looking the airfield.
To bad they don't have the gun at Ft Sill still with the towing tractors, they used to, but that was maby 25 years ago. I suppose they are setting somewhere out of sight - hopefully in a building!
Can't remember, but seems like the gun at Aberdeen also had the tractors, but again that has ben 15 or 20 years ago.
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The gun at Aberdeen didn't have the Trucks, Gun-lifting, Heavy when I was there 40 years ago, but they did get some later and it has them now (or did).
ssmandavid
here's the link to aberdeen U.S. Army Ordnance Mu.
http://www.ordmusfound.org/index.htm
cool site, a little slow though.
Rockcrusher
Was at APG about 2 or 3 years ago and the wheeled
tractors were attached. Brought back memories of
Germany in the 50's (5th Gr in Kaiserlautern and
6th Gr in Heidelberg). Whenever they took them out
of the Kaserns for maneuvers, they would usually
knock off a corner of a bldg in a German town. Then
the inves and paperwork for damage.
Am curious about the How at Ft. Riley. Could it be
a 240MM Towed How from WWII ? If so, would like to
see some pics if possible. Thought the only one re-
maining was at Ft. Sill, OK. Museum ?
There is a 8" Towed Cannon at APG. The 36 Ton HI
Speed Tractor (Allis-Chalmers) is not there. Only
one remaining, might be in Belgium. Owned at one
time by Chet Krause (Krause Pub.) Both the 240 and
the 8" were towed on the same carraige and then lifted
by crane to fire on another firing carraige. The
Germans had bigger RR Cannons in WWII (the huge
siege cannon used in Russia- Dora ?) believe we
beat them in size with the 240MM HOW for road
transported.
Have always wondered if the wheeled tractors used at
both ends of the Atomic Cannon were the "Dragon Wagons"
from WWII built by PACCAR
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Fox Hill, Va.
No. The vehicles used with the 280s were special, new design, new build. Known as "Truck, Gun Lifting, Heavy", and in two varirants (Front and rear). They had the same engine as the M-41 tank and M42 twin 40mm "Duster" and the other members of the "Light Fire Team" - the AO-895 air-cooled, horizontally opposed six (think of a giant Corvair engine, that used a lot of common parts with the AV-1790 air-cooled V-12s used in M-46, M-47 and M-48 as well as M-88 VTR).
johnnv
Giessen, West Germany 1960 I was a artillery surveyor for our cannons and was temporarily assigned to Special Weapons section for 6 months. It was in special weapons I was trained to assemble the atomic round for the 280 cannon. A assembly team consisted of two people. I assembled the front of the shell containing the arming fuses and detonating system and my buddy installed the radioactive components at the rear. We used a dummy round for this while the real atomic rounds were locked up and guarded 24 hrs a day. Our live fire training was always in Graffenwoer and typically with a charge 2 powder (2 bundles of powder). Only once I saw the gun fired with a charge 4 and for that we had to move the cannon miles away from the usual firing position so as not to overshoot the impact area.
srinde
Very neat. Thanks for sharing those photos.
NeoConShooter
After we shot our Nuc shell, I think the Ruskis had to try one too. Theirs was a 420 MM Self Propelled "Mortar" with the longest BBL I ever saw. IIRC, it out ranged our gun with a bigger yield too.
See; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2A3_Kondensator_2P
There are more pictures if you use Google images.
Also this Nuclear gun is even more interesting, and the test fired is Nuc shell too;
See; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)
See also Google images about this bit of ordinance! The thing about the Davy Crockett was that they had a 76 pound conventional shell to use for practice and semi-soft targets like buildings! I actually got to see them shoot one of those way back when and it was a hoot! Think of it! Over 40 pounds of HBX blowing up a cinder block building! And close enough to feel the concussion too!
tacfoley2
When I was kid, way back, I remember building the Renwal plastic kit of this gun....I still have the barrel somewhere, I'm sure.
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Sarge said:
Late with this comment, but we never had towed versions of the 175. it was strictly an SP (the M-107), on the same carriage and breech ring (and recoil mechanism) as the 8" (M-110) SP Howitzer. Which also came in a towed version. The commonest long gun seen in towed form in US service was the 155mm "Long Tom". The big 240mms were - quite the artillery piece, road mobile if in partially disassembled form with a crane as part of the battery equipment. The went out of service quickly after WWII. EDIT - turns out they actually lasted until the late 50s in US service, until we had shot up remaining ammo stocks according to the article in Wiki (which i have found usually fairly accurate on this sort of thing, at least where sources are shown)
oneshooter
Is this the one you speak of? Taiwan still has some as fixed batteries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/240_mm_howitzer_M1#/media/File:240mmHowitzerM1FortSillRear2005.jpg
1886lebel
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You can see the gun at The National Atomic Museum from Eubank Blvd. driving by ... it is outside on the South Side of the museum.
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oneshooter said:
Yep, that's the big girl all right.
John Sukey
Still not as big as the "Paris gun" 75 mile range, hitting Paris from the German front lines. But considering the damage it did, a waste of time and money.
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Actually, household income is falling for the third year in a row. We're now down to 1996 levels which has resounding effects for the economy. We know how this affects normal and inferior goods, but what does that mean for you and me? Depending on what's made domestically that could mean more or less demand for goods made at U.S. factories, which in turn affects income (again) . So, depending on the good (shirts, cars, food, etc..) this could be either a slippery slope or small a rough patch.
I want to dry your attention to a graphic on the side of this article because there are many interesting things to note. We'll talk about this in class, but isn't it interesting that even though income has fallen the amount of TVs per household has increased. Is TV an inferior good?
It's back to the grind with a new batch of current events! This one is geared more toward informing those of you who have had (or will have) to finance college costs with student loans (like myself). I've picked this article so that you are more informed of all the costs you actually incur when borrowing from the government. Remember that economics is essentially the study of tradeoffs and cause and effect, so think economically next time you accept the full award amount of your student loans... present consumption may be hard for you to payoff in the future.


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Students adapt direct observation toward many contemporary and traditional art forms, bringing an ancient human ability into living practice, and changing how you think about what you see. Here we use traditional materials – pigments, brushes and canvas, but the goal is to master the grammar of visual representation, and to use this as a structure for exploring all our visual expectations and experiences: our imagination, our memory, our identities, our social and spiritual connections and alienations, our senses of beauty and ugliness. This course introduces basic methods, media and concepts in painting styles, both traditional and contemporary. It emphasizes painting from observation, emotion, and the imagination with development of color, mark making, tone, and form. Formal consideration as well as design principles will be included. Through class critiques students are encouraged to articulate and reflect on their own work and the work of their classmates. Students are also encouraged to develop an awareness and appreciation of painting within the visual arts and the contemporary world. Gallery trips and other related assignments.
Projects: Each student will be required to lead one Critique session - Tonal & Color Studies, Still Life: Imprimatura & Grisaille technique, Large Scale Group Mystery Tile painting, Paint in Impressionism or Post Impressionism style (outdoors weather permitting), Abstract from nature, music or inspired.
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Photographer Dominique Nabokov has documented the living rooms of well-known Parisians - artists, writers, designers, intellectuals, and the occasional celebrity. The rooms vary widely from one another in terms of formality and decor, but they are all equalized under the gaze of Nabokov's camera. Each room is shot simply as it happened to appear on that particular day, without any people. Using discontinued Polaroid Colorgraph type 691 film, (which provides a full-color transparency in four minutes), Nabokov does not use special lighting, or allow the rooms to be rearranged or touched by a stylist. The result is a series of fascinatingly deadpan photos that puts an ironic slant on the celebrity interior genre. These peeks into the living rooms of celebrated Parisians will provide hours of voyeuristic pleasure. The book includes more than seventy living rooms of such diverse Parisians as Jean-Paul Goude, Andree Putman, Christian Liaigre, Ingrid Caven, Jeanne Moreau, Victoire de Castellane, Loulou de la Falaise, and Jacques Grange, to name a few.
This is Main Street Railroad Station (embellished with its original 'Euro Disneyland Railroad' moniker) all done up in its Halloween finery.
Christmas decorations in the lobby of Concorde Opera Paris. The theme this year: a tribute to Russia, as 2010 was dedicated to Russia in France.


You…yes you…have the rare opportunity to meet me during my one contractually obligated meet and greet of the year. Dave, of yourfirstvisit.net fame and co-author of "The easy Guide to Your First Walt Disney World Visit," and I will be at Tomorrowland Terrace on Sunday November 8th from 5:30pm to what I would guess will be around 6:30pm. We'd be happy to sign whatever edition of your book you happen to have on your person or in the more likely scenario that you haven't actually bought one, we'll happily smile and nod when you tell us you forgot it back in the room but just wanted to see if we actually are real people from afar. These meet and greets typically see four to seven people amid torrential downpours, so we'll apologize for the weather in advance.
Drat! Just a couple of weeks too early – we'll be there a little later this month – any chance you'll be around (even if not a contractually obligated m&g) near Thanksgiving?!
I'm almost always creepin around somewhere.
Excelleny! We'll be stalking you, lol! Just don't bring the rain with you!
Drat!! Not getting in until late on the 10th. Couldn't you put it off for a few days?!?!?
Can I get a FP+ for a M&G Thanksgiving week?
Hmmm. All our FP+s put us in the Studios then. I don't suppose you'll be coming by there later for EEMH?
So that's why MK is your most recommended park on 11/8! Great marketing.
Will there be a PhotoPass photographer there?
I'm going to come and explain the advantages of Sony cameras and complain that your idea of a "6" crowd is completely inaccurate.
I live a billion miles away, so sadly I won't be able to gawk and stare at your fabulous celebrity bloggership during the meet and greet. But the event has actually shamed me into buying this year's book; I figure you've suffered through enough breakfast burritos and congealed F&W entrees for our sake, without ever asking for anything in return! Thanks for being so good to us, even though we probably don't deserve it!
Dam, we leave Sat to go back to the UK. If u give us your address we can pop round with our guidebook before hand.
DAMM I HAVE BEEN REAL BUSY & HAVENT HAD TIME TO CHECK MY MESSAGES . DO YOU STILL WANT ME TO SHILL FOR YOU ??? MY FEE… JUST BEING AROUND 2 GREAT PEOPLE & MY BAR TAB @ THE ROSE & CROWN . I GET BUSY SO PLEASE REPLY SOON .
We'll be at HDDR at 4 that day. Might cruise over afterwards. My book is loaned to a friend. For real!
Amused by all the replies being excuses.
You ppl must be paying much less than me for ur disney tickets if u got time to get a book signing!
I'll assume Lisa will be holding the "Line Starts Here" sign. I'll look for that.
I assume this meet & greet will be included in the updated cheat sheet?
Hate that we won't get to meet you! Love your site!
We plan to head to Disney next May and are contemplating a trip to the MK with our son who has special needs.
I would like your feedback and/or suggestions about Disney's disability passes.
Steve, we'll sign pretty much anything!
Wasn't planning on going to MK this trip due to a leg injury, but now I just might.
Josh, any chance you're headed to Epcot after for a quick drink or seven?
My girls and I showed up at the Meet and Greet last April and boy was it ever raining!!! Hope you had better weather for this one!! Thanks again for the Mickey hats!!! My girls still have them and still talk about it.


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Visa and Immigration in UAE
UAE visit visas: 6 recent changes you need to know
From new fee to in-country extension being suspended, multiple processes have been revised
Nasreen Abdulla
Published: Fri 20 Jan 2023, 6:00 AM
Last updated: Sat 21 Jan 2023, 10:48 AM
The UAE has introduced several changes in its visa procedures as part of the sweeping reforms known as the Advanced Visa System, which came into effect in October 2022. Introduced by the Federal Authority for Identity, Citizenship, Customs and Port Security (ICP), it was one of the largest residency and entry permit reforms in the UAE.
Since then, several developments have happened in the visit visa system of the country. In the latest move today, the fees for issuing Emirates ID, visit, and residency visas in the UAE have been increased.
Khaleej Times puts together a list of 6 changes that have occurred in the visit visa system since the reforms came into effect.
No visit visa extensions from within the country: Visit visa holders do not have the option to extend their visas beyond its stipulated term from within the country. Those with a visiting visa but wanting to continue staying in the country must exit the UAE and then reenter on a new visit visa. "Visitors have the option of extending their visas for one month at a cost," said Afi Ahmed, Managing Director, Smart Travels. "After that they must exit the country either through air or land and can re-enter."
Increase in fee: The fees for issuing Emirates IDs and visas increased. The new costs apply to all services rendered by the Federal Authority for Identity, Citizenship, Customs and Ports Security (ICP), as confirmed by a representative. As per the new rules, Emirates ID will now cost Dh370 instead of Dh270; and the fee to issue a one-month visit visa is Dh370 instead of Dh270.
5-year multiple entry visa: With the visa, tourists can enter the UAE multiple times on self-sponsorship and remain in the country for 90 days during each visit. Holders can extend the visas for 90 days in addition to the initial 90 days without leaving the country. According to authorities, the visa allows families outside the country to spend more time with their loved ones in the UAE. People applying for the multiple entry visa need to provide supporting documents including bank statement for the last six months with a balance of $4,000 or its equivalent in foreign currencies, proof of UAE health insurance, copy of the flight ticket and proof of residence, like an invitation letter from friends and family in the UAE.
Overstay fine: Visitors who overstay their visit visa duration must pay their overstay fine and obtain an out pass or leave permit at an additional cost before exiting the country. "This is applicable to visitors who are exiting through Dubai," said a spokesperson for Deira travels. "The out pass is not required by visitors you are leaving from other emirates."
60 days visas resumed: The issuing of 60 days visit visas was resumed in the UAE after the reforms. Currently, 30-day visit visas and 60-day visit visas are being issued for those wanting to visit the country.
Entry permit to visit relatives or friends: As per the current amendment, a visitor can apply for this entry permit if he/she is a relative or friend of a UAE citizen or resident. It does not require them to go through a travel agency. "The friend or relative can sponsor the visitor by paying a refundable deposit of Dhs. 1000," said Praveen Chowdhary from Saffron Travels and Tourism.
Abu Dhabi Golden Visa now valid for 10 years for all categories
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Q: Creating multiple entities with one form using collection type so I tried creating a form that can create multiple entities in one form.
The goal is simply by using collection type I can create multiple entities with similar attributes.
The view works where I can add new positions to create more "artikels".
Unfortunately I do not receive any Data if I use $form['artikelList']->getData(). I only receive an empty array(0) but when using $form->getData() I do see the informations on the "artikels".
Can you help me how I can access that data? Googling around did not really help in this regard.
My MultipleFormType file:
 /**
 * @param FormBuilderInterface $builder
 * @param array $options
 */
public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
{
    $builder
        ->add('artikelList', CollectionType::class, [
            'entry_type' => ArtikelEmbeddedFormType::class,
            'entry_options' => [
                'label' => false
            ],
            'allow_delete' => true,
            'allow_add' => true,
            'by_reference' => false,
            'label' => false,
        ])
        ->add('Speichern', SubmitType::class, [
            'attr' => ['class' => 'btn--red']
        ]);
}

My embeddedFormType file:
/**
 * @param FormBuilderInterface $builder
 * @param array $options
 */
public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
{
    $builder
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        ->add('artikelActive', null,
            ['label' => 'Aktiv']);
}

And here my controller:
 public function createMultipleArtikel(Request $request)
{
    //creating multiple articles at once

    $form = $this->createForm(MultipleArtikelFormType::class, null);
    $form->handleRequest($request);

    if ($form->isSubmitted() && $form->isValid()) {
        var_dump($form->getData());
        var_dump($form->get('artikelList')->getData());

        foreach($form->get('artikelList')->getData() as $artikel) {
            $this->artikelRepository->update($artikel);
            $this->get('session')->getFlashBag()->add(
                'notice',
                'done!'
            );
        }
    }


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Q: How to implement a UINavigationController to a standard UIView This is the structure of my application currently:

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This is how I want it to be:

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I have a view that slides up and I want that view to have its own UINavigationController. It's for the app settings so I want to have nested options.
Any ideas how to do this?
The application type was a Navigation app to start with which is where the Root View Controller's UINavigationController came from.

A: Note that UINavigationController inherits from UIViewController so you can present it as a modal view controller. I've created a simple test application and this approach worked fine.
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Versatile Service Engine is a second generation IP Multimedia Subsystem developed by Nortel Networks that is compliant with Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture specifications. Nortel's versatile service engine provides capability to telecommunication service provider to
offer global System for mobile communications and code-division multiple access services in both wireline and wireless mode.

History

The Versatile Service Engine is a joint effort of Nortel and Motorola. The aim of collaboration was to develop an Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture compliant platform for Nortel IP Multimedia Subsystem applications. Nortel joined the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group in 2002 and the work on Versatile Service Engine was started in 2004.

Architecture

A single versatile service engine frame consists of three shelves, each shelf having three slots.
A single slot can have many sub-slots staging a blade in it. Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture blades can be processors, switches, AMC carriers, etc. A typical shelf will contain one or more switch blades and several processor blades. The power supply and cooling fans are located in the back pane of the Versatile Service Engine.

Ericsson ownership

After Nortel Networks filed for bankruptcy protection in January 2009, Ericsson telecommunications then acquired the code-division multiple access and LTE based assets of then Canada's largest telecom equipment maker, hence taking the ownership of Versatile service engine.

References

External links
 Official Nortel website

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Hello to everyone! This looks like a fun way to pay for nights out and shopping trips! ;) Anyone able to reassure me that this is all legit?
It is legit. I have been doing this for a few years. I just signed up for the forum but I've earned money here and there. Their app makes submitting surveys easy.
First welcome and great to have you. What is bothering you?
Mystery shopping has been around for years and years. Today we have some "bad" people exploiting the Internet, and perpitrating scams. If you are smart enough to read this, you are smart enough to smell a scam.
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And not just for nights out, my friend was laid off, and she managed to eat everyday without spending a dime, all by mystery shopping resturant assignments. Way to go!
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When you browse through the available shops, you will also notice the available shops are also very reputable and recognizable companies.
Secret shopping is definitely legit. Just stick with the better known companies like ISS and you won't have any problems.
I did Secret Shopping a few years ago with one company that dealt primarily with apartments. I had a lot of fun, but started to burn out the apartments in my area. I stopped for a couple years and then started back up with ISS. I like the variety of shops that are available as well as the larger area to work in.
I have since branched out to several other companies but found that I really have to limit the number of MSP's that I work with. It sometimes gets to be a little hectic trying to keep everything in order.
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NCSC and the National Insider Threat Task Force (NITTF) Kick Off "National Insider Threat Awareness Month"
Keep an eye out this month for events related to mitigating insider threats through the month of September from NCSC and NITTF. We advise organizations to consider their security programs are just about firewalls and antivirus. There are many threats inside an organization that need to be mitigated. Proper planning and implementation of a security program based on industry accepted best practices goes a long way towards addressing this risk.
The National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) and the National Insider Threat Task Force (NITTF) are today partnering with U.S. government agencies and private sector entities to kick off "National Insider Threat Awareness Month" during September 2020.
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All organizations are vulnerable to insider threats from employees who may use their authorized access to facilities, personnel or information to harm their organizations — intentionally or unintentionally. The harm can range from negligence, such as failing to secure data or clicking on a phishing link, to malicious activities like intellectual property theft, sabotage, espionage, unauthorized disclosure of classified information or even violence.
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The theme for this year's National Insider Threat Awareness Month (NITAM) is resilience. Effective Insider Threat programs promote personal and organizational resilience to mitigate risks. These programs provide positive interventions when employees are struggling, offering them help before they potentially become insider threats. Insider Threat resources are available at the NITTF website or DCSA's NITAM website.
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On August 21, 2020, an individual was arrested for conspiring to provide Russia with classified information, including while he served in the U.S. Army Special Forces.
On August 14, 2020, an individual was arrested for conspiring to provide China with classified information, including while he worked as a contract linguist for the FBI.
On July 30, 2020, an individual pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal medical trade secrets from her employer, the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Ohio, to benefit a company she and her husband formed in China.
On February 27, 2020, an individual was sentenced to prison for stealing trade secrets worth more than $1 billion from his employer, a U.S. petroleum company.
On January 31, 2020, an individual was sentenced on weapons and drug charges after a successful Insider Threat investigation indicated he was planning acts of violence and stockpiling weapons while working at the U.S. Coast Guard, leading to his arrest.
Pursuant to a 2011 Executive Order, all federal agencies with access to classified information are required to have their own Insider Threat detection and prevention programs. The Executive Order also directed the creation of the NITTF under the leadership of the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence. NITTF is co-directed by the FBI and NCSC, and is currently directed by a career FBI official.
Since its inception, the NITTF has been working to assist federal agencies build programs at their agencies that deter, detect and mitigate Insider Threats, taking into account the distinct needs, missions and systems of each individual agency. NITTF has also expanded its outreach to entities beyond federal agencies to help raise awareness of insider threats and best practices for mitigation. NITTF assistance has included:
Providing training to thousands of Insider Threat practitioners in government and businesses
Publishing national policy, minimum standards and a maturity framework for federal insider threat programs
Conducting independent assessments of federal Insider Threat programs
Providing Insider Threat trend analysis, technical assistance, guidance and best practices
Engaging internal and external partners to help Insider Threat programs develop
It is important to note that Insider Threat programs across the U.S. government target anomalous activities, not individuals. Each agencies' Insider Threat program is coordinated with their respective legal counsel, civil liberties, and privacy officials to guarantee civil liberties, privacy, and whistleblower protections.
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Catching Ben
Author: Beth Haverkamp Powers '88
Published: Autumn 2014
When I first started teaching more than 20 years ago, I fantasized about being "the one" — the teacher kids adored, trusted and would reference in their Nobel Prize acceptance speeches. In the short term, I imagined them calling me when arrested for childish pranks like TP-ing houses or skateboarding illegally. Wearing a red-sequined, super-teacher cape, I would pick them up at the police station at midnight and drive them home to the embrace of grateful parents.
Really, this was my idea of what great teaching entailed when I was 22. I had no idea how ludicrous this fantasy was. I didn't realize then that when kids got arrested it would be for raping a younger neighbor or shoplifting at a rest stop in Connecticut on the way back from the Ellis Island field trip. I just craved the connection, the adulation, the admiration this PG-rated fantasy provided. It was so different from the adversarial tasking that much of teaching middle and high school really is.
The silliness of this image must be seen in its greater genetic context. Both of my sisters — the older, a doctor, and the younger, a librarian — successfully save young people from distress and ruin. Saint Sue, the doc, gives free medical care to 800 Mexican orphans and opens her home to the worst cases as they undergo extensive surgeries in the United States. Laura, the librarian, adopts the strays in her school, making a safe haven in the library for the dispossessed. She keeps a drawer of granola bars and ramen for the hungry. One year she even saved an Uzbeki exchange student from an untenable host situation, and he lived with her family for his remaining nine months in the United States.
At Thanksgiving dinners, we rattle off our accomplishments with the underserved in a strange family rivalry for seats at the table of competitive social justice.
I was excited for Laura when the exchange student came to live with her, but Sue's response was horrifying. "A huge percent of all child molestation occurs in the home by individuals known to the child," she blurted. It seemed unfair that she would raise this possibility to Laura, who has two young sons. But we are competitive "savior siblings," running, arms outstretched, to catch the children of the world before they fall. I felt that this statistic Sue rattled off was an affront. The world needs more generosity, not fear, I argued.
Once in a while, I participate in the save-the-children discussions, although my stories are smaller. I reached out to one student, Molly, whose parents had been killed in a drunk-driving accident. She had to move across the country in October of her eighth-grade year and showed up in my Spanish class with an add slip and an attitude. She demanded to be dismissed from class. I handed her a journal and invited her to spend lunch in my room. In a week, she began to attend only my class and lunch, by November, history and computers, too. By December she was fully integrated into the school and eating in the cafeteria with a gaggle of giggling girls. I took her Christmas shopping in Boston one Saturday to give her young aunt and uncle and their new baby some time without the traumatized teen who had appeared on their doorstep out of tragedy.
Another time, a college-bound recent graduate named Sarah called me at home in the summer. "I think I am depressed," she said. "I need to talk to someone because I'd like to hurt myself, and I can't handle it any more. I can't tell my mother. And I am uninsured." This call came when I was taking a graduate class an hour from home, juggling summer camp childcare for my own daughter, and preparing for a visit from my father and his fault-finding wife. My sequined cape was nowhere to be found, but I still managed to say, "Oh, Sarah, thank you for calling me. I am sorry you are feeling this way. I can help you get some help." I skipped class, and some 20 phone calls later she had an appointment in a local counseling center and temporary health benefits. Making a difference for kids is not always convenient.
Not every interaction involved real or potential tragedy. A group of students once called me at 1 a.m. with a question about annotated citations for a National History Day project they were to present in the morning. My husband, who answered groggily, shoved the phone at me in the dark saying, "It's kids. Maybe it's a prank." But I knew the competition was imminent and was all too happy to whisper to those boys about the punctilios of Chicago Style as my husband rolled over.
Mrs. Hamlin, the youngest teacher in the English department, takes a deep breath at my classroom door and pushes forward. She's on a mission, her arms crossed over a leather portfolio she clutches across her chest like a shield. She is wary of my sharp tongue and brash opinions, which I intend to wield for sport, but there have been injuries.
"One of my 9A students will be in your 10 Honors. I moved him up a level, but he may need some . . . extra attention." She pauses briefly. "He's not all that sure of himself, but . . . he's a good kid." Again, a pause, she is expecting me to snipe something like, "If he needs extra attention, then he's not 'honors material.'" But I am not angry. I am pleased Mrs. Hamlin is here advocating for a student. She is coming in to her own as a teacher. I find my roster and say, "Okay, what's his name and what's his story?"
Ben Maxwell showed up at Milford High School for ninth grade with no paperwork, no records, no test scores and a stepfather of few words. Administrators assigned him to B-level classes for slower learners, but in the first week it was obvious he was a quick study. He was promoted to A-levels in mid-September. When he started to get comfortable, he revealed that he had been homeless and living in a tent in California for a couple years. He'd had little formal schooling. When Mrs. Hamlin pressed gently for more details, Ben shut down, his face impassive.
Ben comes to my 10th grade honors class a big kid with stooped shoulders. He sits in the front row in an oversized plaid shirt, baggy jeans and sneakers. If I hadn't been looking for him, he might have disappeared into the crowd. But when I tell him he comes highly recommended from Mrs. Hamlin, he grins. We are off to a good start.
Ben stumbles on the first essay test. He has the right answers, but I am evaluating paragraph structure and his has no structure at all. I pull him aside, hand him an outline and say, "Next time, it should look like this." The next day he comes in with a reworked essay, says he doesn't want the credit but wants affirmation that he has mastered the style. His new try is superb. For each assignment the rest of the year, Ben's writing shines.
In late October I chaperone the homecoming dance in the smelly cafeteria-turned-dance-club. A strobe light pulsates through the dark, sweaty mass of adolescent drama. Ben emerges from a throng of sophomore girls who are trying to teach him the line dance to "Cotton Eyed Joe." He lumbers to the back cinderblock wall and slides to a seat on the floor. Later, when I am staffing the concession stand, Ben stops by. "I saw you dancing, Ben. Nice work," I say. He rolls his eyes. "I am soooo clumsy. I can't dance," he laments.
"Oh, I get it. It feels awkward. But here's what you do. Go in your bedroom, turn the music up loud and dance alone. You'll get better," I lie optimistically. I remember how hard it is to be a kid. I think I am being helpful.
Ben looks me straight in the eye. "I don't have a bedroom door to shut. I sleep on the couch in the living room of my stepfather's apartment." Before I can respond, he slinks back into the musical darkness.
Junior year, Ben is in my honors American Literature class. The last book we read is my perennial favorite, The Catcher in the Rye. I tell his class how I missed the fact that Holden was crazy on my first read of the book — how I thought, at the age of 15, that he was one of the sanest characters I'd ever encountered. But Ben says he doesn't like Holden: "He's disrespectful and whiney." I realize then that Ben has never whined, wheedled or wailed about workload. No wonder he can't stand rich and privileged Caulfield.
"Once, I had a student who wrote an essay on Holden Caulfield," I tell the class. "It was a mediocre bit of writing marred by terrible spelling, but he got an A." I pause for effect.
"Why did a bad essay get an A?" someone finally asks.
"The kid misspelled Holden as 'Holdon' throughout. Get it? Hold-on? And that's all the empathetic reader wants him to do — hold on. I love that mistake!" Everyone groans.
In a later lecture, I wonder aloud whether Holden's teacher, the one who strokes his head while he is in a manic state, is really making a pass, as Holden perceives. "Or is Antolini being gentle and loving because he can see Holden is in pain?" I decide to answer my own question. "Isn't it sad when a teacher cannot even touch a student? I had to check myself once when a kid burst into the room to announce he'd gotten in to the Naval Academy. All I wanted to do was give the kid a bear hug, but I thought 'Oh, no, that's a lawsuit and a career-ender!'"
A girl's hand shoots up, and she has a fierce look in her eye. It is Jennifer, a towheaded crackerjack who usually agrees with me. "I totally disagree. If Holden felt threatened, he was threatened. Antolini was a creep."
This answer is not literary analysis; it's personal. I am still processing the ramifications of her comment as the bell rings, and I see Ben make a beeline to Jennifer's desk. They walk out of class in frowning conversation together. I know both of them have known Antolinis, and I'll never read that scene the same way.
Ben continues to excel and asks for recommendations for outside reading when the semester ends. I learn he is taking the most advanced computer programming in the school and is on the math team. He gets a job at a grocery store and works more than 30 hours a week. I recommend him for Advanced Placement English for his final year of high school.
Senior year Ben is not my student anymore, but he begins each morning in my classroom with a bunch of other groupies, including blonde bombshell Jennifer. It is clear to me that he is infatuated with her and also that she is oblivious, uninterested or both. Ben asks me about Advanced Placement literature topics, shows me some poems he's written on unrequited love and invites me to be his Facebook friend. This is four years before our school will institute a policy forbidding social media contact with students, so I accept.
In November, when Ben shows up in my classroom in the mornings, he's unshaven. He seems to be gaining weight and is uncomfortable in his own skin. Thanksgiving approaches. I am not paying attention to Ben or Facebook but grading term papers and planning menus. My sister Sue flies in and spends the long weekend regaling me with tales of her work on behalf of the orphans. As usual, I feel like an underachiever in our strange family rivalry.
It is the first week of December when I get the call from Jennifer's mother. She tells me her girls think I will know what to do. "I have Ben here. Ben Maxwell. He's spent the last two nights here and is refusing to go home. I told him he has to leave, but he's just sitting there, staring. I don't know what to do." Her voice is squeaky and fast.
"Mrs. Reynolds," I say, "put Ben on the phone." Eventually, I convince Ben to go to work at the supermarket. "What time is your break, Ben? I'll meet you then, and we'll make a plan." The next hours are a blur of telephone calls. Jennifer calls to give me the backstory: Ben's stepfather became abusive and Ben had moved in with his manager at the supermarket for a few weeks. When Ben's Facebook postings got dark, the man asked him to leave because his family felt threatened. When Ben left the Reynolds' house, he'd said he would just live in his car because no one wanted him.
It's 5 p.m., slate gray and snowing, the first storm of the year. I call his guidance counselor at home while simultaneously starting dinner and reading the November Facebook posts. The guidance counselor directs me to call the school principal and social worker. Neither answers. It's 5:30 when I slide through accumulating slush into the Stop & Shop parking lot. I have no plan for the desperate kid who is going to sleep in his car during a blizzard, so naturally I insist he come to stay at my house at the end of his shift. He'll be safe, and I'll make a plan the next day at school with access to all the resources I assume we offer.
When I get home, my husband teasingly wonders why I would throw our kindergartener in the back of the car for a ride to the grocery store in a blizzard and then arrive home with no groceries. There is no right moment to announce our impending houseguest, so I just blurt, "One of my students has become homeless. I told him to come here for the night when he gets out of work." I take a deep breath and wait, watching my husband's back tense where he stands for two seconds, three, four. He rounds on me.
"Why you?" Mike demands. "This doesn't seem right, a 17-year-old boy. Where are his parents? What does your principal think? This is not okay. Not okay!" He's not even looking at me, simply ticking off this litany with the paring knife in his hand. I stumble, explaining the family dynamic, that I've notified school authorities, that this is temporary. Inside I am seething. My sisters' spouses support their helping of kids in need but mine makes me feel reckless. For the first time in a nine-year marriage, I wonder whom I have married. How can this man not understand that a Haverkamp will not turn her back on a child in need?
"Ben had a temporary place to live, but he posted some emails that his manager's family felt uncomfortable with, so they asked him to leave. He might be suicidal. I can't leave a depressed, homeless kid to sleep in his car in a New Hampshire blizzard. I just can't!" I am crying and spitting this last part, but Mike has stopped listening. I can see the pulse on his temples.
"He's suicidal? Suicidal? You're bringing a suicidal kid here so our 5-year-old daughter can see this, be hurt by this? What are you thinking?" Now Mike is shaking a little but his voice is dead even. "This is my house, and it is my job to keep it safe for my family, for my daughter."
I storm off to prepare the guest room. I am nauseated. Here I have a real chance, indeed a moral imperative, to help a kid, and my husband is tripping me up with his "you care about other kids more than your own" logic. He's right, and I hate him for it. But I can't fix this now, there's no time.
I hear the tentative knock at the door. Ben's car couldn't make it up our drive in the storm. He stands on my porch without a jacket, his feet in the snow. I lead Ben to the kitchen to introduce him to my stone-faced husband. Mike says nothing, only slowly extends a hand to this interloper. Then I hustle Ben upstairs. I show him how to start the shower, where to find towels and toiletries, smiling through a jaw clenched so tight my teeth could crumble.
"Feel free to throw in some laundry, Ben. I understand you've been on your own for a few days now, so you probably need clean clothes," I say, backing out of the room.
"Yeah, um, I don't know how to start it. Could you show me?" he whispers.
He's so big, filling up my tiny spare bedroom. I have forgotten that he's a child with no life skills yet. I am thankful to have the washing machine buttons to fiddle with and a false ease in my voice to hide the tears on the verge of leaking.
When I go to bed, my daughter tells me she has permission from her daddy to sleep in our bed. She falls asleep in minutes, her soft cheeks flushed, her breathing easy. Mike comes in after midnight and shows me his back. Neither Mike nor I is asleep for a long time.
In the morning, Mike wakes early to clear the driveway. He is further inconvenienced by Ben's abandoned car halfway up the steep incline. Before he leaves for work, I assure him I will "take care" of the Ben situation today. "Today," he reaffirms and slams the door.
It's three years later. Ben and I sit in the Yankee Chef café. We have developed this pattern of lunches or dinners together during his college vacations. He's come to the house a few times, but it feels better to meet out in the world. I ask Ben perfunctory questions about his computer classes at Northeastern. He wants to talk about his honors writing class. Eventually I am going to have to ask him, this quasi adoptee, about money, how much he has, how much he needs and how I can help him renew his scholarship awards.
I drag some bacon through a streak of yolk while Ben talks.
"So my prof has a memoir. Man, he had a real screwed up childhood. Some girl in my class actually said to him she didn't know what to write about, and that she, like, wished some of his stuff had happened to her." He's shaking his head. I see the hair on his temples is thinning.
"Try not to be angry with privileged college girls, Ben. They know not what they say." And then I consider the prof. "Wow, what did he say to the stupid girl?" Ben reports that the prof quipped, "Trade ya!"
"Ouch!" I say, and we both laugh. "But you have a lot to say, Ben," I add.
"Oh yeah, I got an A. And the prof wants me to keep writing. He and I understand each other, you know." We've finished eating. The waitress has cleared the plates, but I cradle my endless cup of coffee and Ben chews ice cubes from his water glass.
"So," I finally say, "let's talk about money. You said you didn't get RA this year, so how are you going to . . . you know?"
"Well there's a story. I actually wrote about it for class. See, they gave me the RA position, but in a different dorm. It had a communal bathroom, and I had to turn it down." Ben is swirling the few remaining ice cubes in his glass.
"What is the problem with a communal bath? Are you shy?" I am preparing to say positive things about body image or to offer some other imaginary palliative cure. He needs the free room and board the RA status gives him.
"When I lived in California with my 'mother,'" he uses air quotes about her and pauses, "she sold me to men in the showers at our campground to pay for her drugs."
I don't want to broadcast my revulsion, disgust, anger and, let's face it, horror, so I hide for a moment behind my hands. "Oh, Ben, I don't know what to say," and I put one hand on his wrist. I meet his eyes briefly.
The waitress arrives with our check, and I fumble for my purse. I am going to pay for this breakfast, but I want to pay for more. Payment for pain? Restitution for rape? How much is room and board at Northeastern? How am I going to hide this expenditure from my husband? I feel like I am falling off a cliff.
Ben saves me. He snaps his credit card on top of the bill. I don't expect this, and I start to protest. Ben explains his financial security as a result of a freelance computer programming gig.
"I'm okay. I got this," he says. "I'm okay."
Today Ben is a computer security specialist with a master's degree and a home of his own. I think he will struggle with his past until he confronts his demons in therapy. I am not a therapist. But I am a teacher, mentor and friend to this brilliant, damaged young man. Those tense days with Ben in the storm were years ago. They helped me step back from the precipice my savior complex romanticized. My husband's protests are as understandable today as they were then. Mike is not a threatening ogre. He is a loving father and responsible husband. And one of the things he loves about me is the crazy need I have to save kids, to get them to "Hold-on" through the rye.
Beth Haverkamp Powers is a teacher and writer in New Hampshire. She has published in Social Education and English Journal and is co-writing a novel with her 12-year-old daughter. The names of students and the teacher in the essay have been changed.


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U.S. Secretary Granholm and Indian Minister Khuba Celebrate Subnational Clean Energy and Climate Partnership between NASEO and AREAS
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and India's Minister of New and Renewable Energy Bhagwanth Khuba joined the National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO), India's Association of Renewable Energy Agencies of States (AREAS), Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and SED Fund for the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) promoting coordination and capacity-building between state-level energy officials in the United States and India.
The MOU between NASEO, representing the 56 governor-designated State and Territory Energy Officials in the United States, and AREAS, representing State Nodal Agencies in India, establishes a framework for U.S. and Indian states to share priorities, best practices, and strategies to promote clean energy and climate solutions, drawing on NASEO's decades-long work representing and elevating the priorities of State Energy Offices.
"The international community faces a tremendous challenge in the climate crisis, and it's one we cannot overcome without India wielding its great influence," noted Secretary Granholm. "This is a moment that requires action at every level of government. Policies come to life at the local level—from EV charging stations to wind farms. And in the U.S., and in India, that cities and states often set an example for our national governments, pushing them further to meet the needs of their communities."
"The State Nodal Agencies of India's Ministry for New and Renewable Energy are getting projects implemented on the ground," added Minister Khuba. "AREAS offers a forum to enable rapid development of renewable energy projects in India. This cooperation will allow AREAS to leverage an extended network of state energy institutions in aligning policies and promoting coordination among Indian implementation agencies to achieve our country's climate goals. Thank you to CSIS for facilitating the partnership."
The MOU signing event also included key officials and representatives from the U.S. and Indian Governments, including Senior Advisor to the Secretary for International Affairs Andrew Light, Indian Secretary for New and Renewable Energy Indu Shekhar Chaturvedi, Indian Joint Secretary for International Relations for the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy Dinesh D. Jagdale, and AREAS Executive Director Jeevan Kumar Jethani. The NASEO-AREAS partnership has been supported by CSIS's Wadwhani Chair in U.S.-India Studies, with support from the SED Fund.
A full recording of the event is available here, with passcode: q9q8^jLw.


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