The club originally consisted of thirty-nine, afterwards of forty-eight members, and included among others the duke of Marlborough, Lords Halifax and Somers, Sir Robert Walpole, Vanbrugh, Congreve, Steele and Addison.
The sum of £50o,000 was voted for the purchase of the manor and the erection of the building, a huge pile built by Sir John Vanbrugh, in a heavy Italo-Corinthian style.
To the south is Claremont Palace, built by the great Lord Clive (1769) on the site of a mansion of Sir John Vanbrugh.


1. Articulate the recent developments in e-business industry and its likely future directions.
2. Compare and explain various types of e-business infrastructure technologies, business models, and payment and security systems in a corporate setting.
3. Formulate and critically evaluate the impact of e-business strategies on organisational processes and outcomes.
4. Demonstrate the technical research skills to assess existing and emerging e-business technologies to transform organisations for competitive advantages.
5. Develop the ability to work independently and contribute as a member of team employing appropriate interpersonal, professional and technical communication skills.
6. Interpret the legal, ethical, social and cultural issues that affect the use, design, and implementation of e-business systems.
7. Build e-business prototype solutions using open source technologies.
You as a group need to develop an e-business prototype website solution using open source (Joomla CMS) in any industry of your choice for an SME (small to mid-size business). You will be required to design, configure and populate your proposed E-business web site using the Joomla CMS via the URL in the cloudaccess.net .
Once opened it, scroll down on this web page, and read Step-1 and Step 2 and simply follow the instruction. Please click on free Joomla hosting link (under Step-1) and it will take you to: http://www.cloudaccess.net/free-joomla-hosting web page. Each group need to create one account for their proposed Website solution.
In this part of the assessment, you are required to configure your Joomla site and design homepage using Cloud access URL created by your group for your proposed E-business. You are required to add extensions like catalogue, shopping cart, contact us, customer registration and any other extension appropriate for your business model such as calendar, social web, maps and weather, please see http://extensions.joomla.org/ for more information.
• Briefly describe your group project reflections (some of the challenges encountered) in designing your e-business website (250 words).
• List and explain the resources you had researched or used for designing your e-business website as a group (250 words).
As a group you need to choose and propose e-business of your choice, approved by your local lecturer (or course coordinator for distance students). So please discuss your proposal with you teacher in advance.
This group assignment relates to your understanding of the technological infrastructure and functional requirements of a small to mid-size e-business and to allow you to demonstrate your ability to research, analyse, synthesise and evaluate, and specify the requirements of a proposed e-commerce website in a report. You are required to use at least 12 sources including 6 academic to write a high quality report.
It is expected that you will demonstrate your learning, integration and incorporation of the knowledge that you have acquired during this course to produce a high quality e-business report.
• References (at least 12 sources including 6 academic), Appendices (if needed).


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import type { CSSInterpolation } from '@ant-design/cssinjs';
import { Keyframes } from '@ant-design/cssinjs';
import type { AliasToken } from '../../theme/internal';
import type { TokenWithCommonCls } from '../../theme/util/genComponentStyleHook';
import { initMotion } from './motion';

export const slideUpIn = new Keyframes('antSlideUpIn', {
  '0%': {
    transform: 'scaleY(0.8)',
    transformOrigin: '0% 0%',
    opacity: 0,
  },

  '100%': {
    transform: 'scaleY(1)',
    transformOrigin: '0% 0%',
    opacity: 1,
  },
});

export const slideUpOut = new Keyframes('antSlideUpOut', {
  '0%': {
    transform: 'scaleY(1)',
    transformOrigin: '0% 0%',
    opacity: 1,
  },

  '100%': {
    transform: 'scaleY(0.8)',
    transformOrigin: '0% 0%',
    opacity: 0,
  },
});

export const slideDownIn = new Keyframes('antSlideDownIn', {
  '0%': {
    transform: 'scaleY(0.8)',
    transformOrigin: '100% 100%',
    opacity: 0,
  },

  '100%': {
    transform: 'scaleY(1)',
    transformOrigin: '100% 100%',
    opacity: 1,
  },
});

export const slideDownOut = new Keyframes('antSlideDownOut', {
  '0%': {
    transform: 'scaleY(1)',
    transformOrigin: '100% 100%',
    opacity: 1,
  },

  '100%': {
    transform: 'scaleY(0.8)',
    transformOrigin: '100% 100%',
    opacity: 0,
  },
});

export const slideLeftIn = new Keyframes('antSlideLeftIn', {
  '0%': {
    transform: 'scaleX(0.8)',
    transformOrigin: '0% 0%',
    opacity: 0,
  },

  '100%': {
    transform: 'scaleX(1)',
    transformOrigin: '0% 0%',
    opacity: 1,
  },
});

export const slideLeftOut = new Keyframes('antSlideLeftOut', {
  '0%': {
    transform: 'scaleX(1)',
    transformOrigin: '0% 0%',
    opacity: 1,
  },

  '100%': {
    transform: 'scaleX(0.8)',
    transformOrigin: '0% 0%',
    opacity: 0,
  },
});

export const slideRightIn = new Keyframes('antSlideRightIn', {
  '0%': {
    transform: 'scaleX(0.8)',
    transformOrigin: '100% 0%',
    opacity: 0,
  },

  '100%': {
    transform: 'scaleX(1)',
    transformOrigin: '100% 0%',
    opacity: 1,
  },
});

export const slideRightOut = new Keyframes('antSlideRightOut', {
  '0%': {
    transform: 'scaleX(1)',
    transformOrigin: '100% 0%',
    opacity: 1,
  },

  '100%': {
    transform: 'scaleX(0.8)',
    transformOrigin: '100% 0%',
    opacity: 0,
  },
});

type SlideMotionTypes = 'slide-up' | 'slide-down' | 'slide-left' | 'slide-right';
const slideMotion: Record<SlideMotionTypes, { inKeyframes: Keyframes; outKeyframes: Keyframes }> = {
  'slide-up': {
    inKeyframes: slideUpIn,
    outKeyframes: slideUpOut,
  },
  'slide-down': {
    inKeyframes: slideDownIn,
    outKeyframes: slideDownOut,
  },
  'slide-left': {
    inKeyframes: slideLeftIn,
    outKeyframes: slideLeftOut,
  },
  'slide-right': {
    inKeyframes: slideRightIn,
    outKeyframes: slideRightOut,
  },
};

export const initSlideMotion = (
  token: TokenWithCommonCls<AliasToken>,
  motionName: SlideMotionTypes,
): CSSInterpolation => {
  const { antCls } = token;
  const motionCls = `${antCls}-${motionName}`;
  const { inKeyframes, outKeyframes } = slideMotion[motionName];

  return [
    initMotion(motionCls, inKeyframes, outKeyframes, token.motionDurationMid),

    {
      [`
      ${motionCls}-enter,
      ${motionCls}-appear
    `]: {
        opacity: 0,
        animationTimingFunction: token.motionEaseOutQuint,
      },

      [`${motionCls}-leave`]: {
        animationTimingFunction: token.motionEaseInQuint,
      },
    },
  ];
};

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Roger Mills peut désigner :
 Roger Mills, un athlète britannique ;
 Roger Mills, un joueur de badminton britannique ;
 Roger Mills, un réalisateur américain ;
 Roger Mills (né en 1948), un athlète britannique.

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Q: MVC 4 custom validation attribute firing twice on server side I'm using custom validation requiredconditional that inherits from RequiredAttribute to conditionally require certain fields. This works beautifully everywhere except in once case and I cannot figure out what is happening.  It is calling the IsValid method twice for one property in the model (the client side validation works perfectly) The model has 2 properties using this attribute but only one has the issue.  At first I thought it was because one of my conditions was a checkbox and it was posting back both the checked value and the hidden value but I tried using radio buttons instead and even a hidden value but had the same results in all cases.  Here is my view (simplified for testing):
@ModelType List(Of eLADNETBusiness.AdditionalInterest)

@Code
    ViewData("Title") = "Bind Coverage Entry"
End Code

Bind Coverage Entry

@Using Html.BeginForm()
    @Html.AntiForgeryToken()
    @Html.Hidden("hullValue", ViewBag.HullValue)
    Dim currentCount As Integer = 0
    @For count As Integer = 0 To Model.Count - 1
            currentCount = count
             @

                 @Html.LabelFor(Function(model) model(currentCount).LienholderAmount)

             @

                @Html.EditorFor(Function(model) model(currentCount).LienholderAmount)
                @Html.ValidationMessageFor(Function(model) model(currentCount).LienholderAmount)

             @

                @Html.EditorFor(Function(model) model(currentCount).Lienholder90Percent)

     Next
    @

        <input type="submit" value="Continue" />

End Using

And here is my model (simplified for testing):
<DataContract()> _
Public Class AdditionalInterest
<DataMember()> _
Public Property ID As Integer = 0

<RequiredConditional("Lienholder90Percent", False, ErrorMessage:="Enter Breach of Warranty lienamount or select 90 percent of insured value")> _
<Display(Name:="Lienholder Amount")> _
<DataMember()> _
Public Property LienholderAmount As Nullable(Of Integer)

<DataMember()> _
Public Property Lienholder90Percent As Boolean

End Class
And my requiredconditional attribute:
Imports System.Collections.Generic
Imports System.Linq
Imports System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations
Imports System.Web.Mvc
Imports System.Collections
Imports System.Text

Public Class RequiredConditional
Inherits RequiredAttribute
Implements IClientValidatable

Private Property PropertyNames() As String()
Private Property DesiredValues() As Object()

Public Sub New(comparePropertyNames As String(), comparePropertyDesiredValues As Object())
    PropertyNames = comparePropertyNames
    DesiredValues = comparePropertyDesiredValues
End Sub

Public Sub New(comparePropertyNames As String, comparePropertyDesiredValues As Object)
    PropertyNames = New String() {comparePropertyNames}
    DesiredValues = New String() {comparePropertyDesiredValues}
End Sub

Protected Overrides Function IsValid(value As Object, context As ValidationContext) As ValidationResult
    Dim instance As Object = context.ObjectInstance
    Dim type As Type = instance.GetType()
    Dim propertyvalue As Object
    Dim trueConditions As Integer = 0
    For count As Integer = 0 To PropertyNames.Count - 1
        propertyvalue = type.GetProperty(PropertyNames(count)).GetValue(instance, Nothing)
        If Not propertyvalue Is Nothing Then
            If DesiredValues.Count >= count + 1 Then
                If propertyvalue.ToString() = DesiredValues(count).ToString() Then
                    trueConditions += 1
                End If
            End If
        End If
    Next
    'if all conditions are met, validate value
    If trueConditions = PropertyNames.Count And trueConditions = DesiredValues.Count Then
        Dim result As ValidationResult = MyBase.IsValid(value, context)
        Return result
    End If

    Return ValidationResult.Success
End Function

Public Function GetClientValidationRules(metadata As System.Web.Mvc.ModelMetadata, context As System.Web.Mvc.ControllerContext) As System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable(Of System.Web.Mvc.ModelClientValidationRule) _
    Implements System.Web.Mvc.IClientValidatable.GetClientValidationRules

    Dim results As New List(Of ModelClientValidationRule)
    Dim rule = New ModelClientValidationRule With {.ErrorMessage = FormatErrorMessage(metadata.GetDisplayName()), .ValidationType = "requiredif"}

    Dim depProp As String = String.Empty

    Dim sbProp As New StringBuilder()
    Dim sbTarget As New StringBuilder()
    Dim helper As New ValidationHelper

    For count As Integer = 0 To PropertyNames.Count - 1
        Dim prop As String = PropertyNames(count)
        depProp = helper.BuildDependentPropertyName(metadata, TryCast(context, ViewContext), prop)
        sbProp.AppendFormat("|{0}", depProp)

        Dim targetValue As String = String.Empty
        If DesiredValues.Count >= count + 1 Then
            targetValue = (If(DesiredValues(count), "")).ToString()
        End If

        If DesiredValues(count).GetType() = GetType(Boolean) Then
            targetValue = DesiredValues(count).ToString.ToLower
        End If

        sbTarget.AppendFormat("|{0}", targetValue)

    Next

    rule.ValidationParameters.Add("dependentproperty", sbProp.ToString().TrimStart("|"))
    rule.ValidationParameters.Add("targetvalue", sbTarget.ToString().TrimStart("|"))

    results.Add(rule)
    Return results

End Function

End Class

So when I click submit and debug into the requiredconditional attribute, the lienholderamount property hits IsValid twice.  The first time it hits, the value of Lienholder90Percent is False even though in the model it is true and was true on the form (and passed client side validation) so fails validation at that point.  Then hits again and Lienholder90Percent is True (which is correct) and passes validation.  But since it failed on the first one, it still fails and show the error message. You'll notice that the model is a list but for testing purposes, I'm only sending one and still getting the same results.  Can't figure out why it is only happening with this one property.  Hope it is something easy I just can't see.  I've spent all day trying to figure this out. Like I said, I use this attribute quite a bit and works great. Can't find a difference for this case.

A: Inherit from ValidationAttribute instead of RequiredAttribute.
RequiredAttribute's IsValid is called right after the property is filled, whereas the ValidationAttribute's IsValid is called after the whole model is filled (which would make sense for more complex validation).

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June 18, 2014 / 10:19 AM / 6 years ago
Data sharing deal with U.S. referred to EU's top court
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's High Court on Wednesday asked the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to review a European Union-U.S. data protection agreement in light of allegations that Facebook FB.O shared data from EU users with the U.S. National Security Agency.
A man is silhouetted against a video screen with an Facebook logo as he poses with an Dell laptop in this photo illustration taken in the central Bosnian town of Zenica, August 14, 2013. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
It asked the European Court to clarify whether a Safe Harbour deal, which allows the transfer of data from EU consumers to the United States, was compatible with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
The judge was ruling on a request by Austrian student group europe-v-facebook for an investigation into allegations that companies including Apple AAPL.O and Facebook help the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) harvest email and other private data from European citizens.
The group appealed to the High Court after the Irish data watchdog - the effective supervisor of the EU activities of some of the biggest U.S. Internet companies which have their European headquarters in Ireland - had said in July there were no grounds for such an investigation.
High Court Justice Gerard Hogan said that given the Safe Harbour agreement, which says that U.S. has sufficient data safeguards in place, the Irish regulator did not have the authority to investigate.
If Safe Harbour stands, the student group's application must fail, he said. "The critical issue which arises is whether the proper interpretation of the 1995 [EU data protection] directive and the 2000 Commission decision [on the Safe Harbour principles] should be re-evaluated in the light of the subsequent entry into force of article 8 of the EU charter," on the right to the protection of personal data, Hogan said.
The Safe Harbour agreement allows U.S. companies like Facebook, Google GOOGL.O, and Microsoft MSFT.O to gather customer information in Europe and send it to the United States, beyond the EU's legal jurisdiction, as long as certain criteria are met.
The strength of the agreement was called into question by the revelation by U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden last year that the NSA used major Web companies, including Apple AAPL.O, Google, Facebook and Microsoft, to gather user data as part of a mass electronic surveillance programme known as Prism.
"The whole Prism, NSA spying thing is thereby in front of the highest court in Europe, which is going to be very interesting," Max Schrems, founder of europe-v-facebook, the Austrian lobby group which brought the case, said.
"Any ruling will apply to any other U.S. companies that have participated in PRISM," he said, adding that he thought there was a "very good chance" of having Safe Harbour overturned.
EU countries are negotiating a new data protection law which would oblige companies like Google or Facebook to seek consent before using personal information, and would impose stiff fines if they break the rules.
"If Safe Harbour were to come falling down, that would create an immediate issue for the thousands of multinationals who have self-certified with that system," Rob Corbet, head of technology and innovation at Arthur Cox law firm in Dublin, said.
"However, nobody wants that uncertainty so I think the more likely outcome is that the U.S. and Europe will get their act together and reach a political outcome on data transfers prior to any final ECJ ruling."
A referral from a Spanish court led the European Court last month to rule that internet companies can be made to remove irrelevant or excessive personal information from search engine results in a case that pitted privacy campaigners against Google.
Writing by Conor Humphries; Additional reporting by Padraic Halpin; Editing by Elaine Hardcastle and Jane Merriman

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Hey guys! I's time for my monthly music post, I run down the top ten giving my verdict and then talk about my personal playlist and a star of the month! It seems like so long since I've done one of these, is it just me that feels like March has dragged? Anyway lets have a lil look at the top 10.
I really like this chick, she has a really fresh sound in all her songs, something different and refreshing and distinctive.
I've been liking this song a lot and hearing it a lot too! Again its something quite different and catchy.
I've not heard this song a lot? Maybe it's just not been on the radio when I've been listening! It's got a nice beat, I'm expecting more from Years and Years.
I love this song, it's so diverse and new somehow and I just love the mix of artists!
Such an emotional song sung by two of my favourite artists! I love them so much, such a beautiful song.
Can never get enough of this song!
Another song I just adore!
The video for this song is imense, I want Marron 5 at my wedding!
10) Earned it- The Weekend.
Not heard this song much! Only thing putting me off is that it's from the fifty shades of gray soundtrack hmm.
I adore this girls cool sound, her voice sounds amazing on every track and sounds so versatile too, she can change the style of her voice and song so easily it's amazing! She's becoming bigger but definitely go and have a listen if you haven't!


The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), has evolved and changed over its 50-year history. The law was reauthorized in 2001 as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and both "ESEA" and "NCLB" have been used in recent years conversations. (See our "What's in a name?" feature below for more information on its progression.) There are a number of aspects of the law that have directly impacted English language learners (ELLs) for the past decade and a half.
January 2016 Note: For more information on the new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, and its implications for ELLs, see our recent compilation of responses and resources.
ESEA & NCLB: What's in a name?
Note: No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is also referred to as The Elementary and Secondary Education Act. For more details about the law's evolution, see "What's in a name?"
As controversial as this law has been, one positive outcome is that ELL student achievement is included specifically in the law, and educational leaders are focusing their efforts on meeting the needs of students who are learning English as a second language. For families of ELLs, NCLB includes provisions for family involvement and communication in a language they understand, especially in regard to informing parents of the kind of ELL support their child will receive.
For teachers, the law means heightened accountability in their practice, and for many it translates into increased pressure to improve test scores. National unions, such as the American Federation of Teachers, have made public statements regarding their recommendations for building more equity and value in the NCLB law, and they continue to advocate for teachers and quality education for all.
Teachers may feel overwhelmed with the responsibility of helping ELLs achieve proficiency on required exams. I will share some general information about NCLB testing and some ideas for assisting ELL students, but since each state has some autonomy in how they implement the law, there may be differences according to the state you live in. I recommend you check with your state education department to see what the requirements are regarding ELL student testing in your state. Our ELL Resources by State section offers some information to help you get started.
What does NCLB say about testing ELLs?
the use of appropriate testing accommodations, such as small group administration of the test, extra time, dictionaries, and simplified instructions.
In addition to the required content exams, ELL students must also take an annual English Language Proficiency test to demonstrate English language development in reading, writing, listening, and speaking every year. States are required to have English Language Proficiency standards in place to guide instruction of language development.
What are English Language Proficiency levels?
The WIDA ACCESS assessment is transitioning into an online assessment. This online version will allow students to interact with social and academic language and allow students an opportunity to provide a recorded speaking sample that can be evaluated.
Each state sets their own "cut off" or "reclassification" score for determining English language proficiency. A common cut off score for an ELL student would be a 5 and he or she is considered proficient in English and no longer receives ELL services.
How can English Language Proficiency levels help teachers?
If a teacher is familiar with the English level of his/her students, lessons can be differentiated to meet developing language needs within content areas. WIDA has English Language Development Standards that describe examples of student language connected to the content standards. The Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) standards also provide very good guidance in this area. In addition, a TESOL standards book entitled "PreK-12 English Language Proficiency Standards," provides guidance with the standards divided by grade bands: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12. Each section is broken into categories based on content and language level. For example, math standards for 3rd grade with a beginning-level English speaker recommend that the teacher focus on activities such as pointing to examples of math concepts and introducing basic math vocabulary. Each content area has examples to help guide teachers in their instruction of ELL students.
Since NCLB has not been reauthorized, many states have requested waivers from the requirements and submitted plans to the Department of Education outlining their own plans for accountability. While waivers have become increasingly popular to address NCLB issues, the laws governing instruction and assessment of ELLs have remained unchanged in most states. A few states have gotten waivers to exclude ELL test scores from accountability for two years, but other than that most states continue to meet federal accountability measures for ELLs as outlined in NCLB.
How can teachers help ELL students prepare for tests when the students have limited English language skills?
Every teacher handles test preparation differently, especially when weighing the cost and benefit of time spent on test preparation vs. language development. However, there are some things that teachers can do (besides offering the accommodations listed above) to assist students in feeling more comfortable and performing their best on the test.
Make sure the ELL students understand the format of the test and the different types of questions. These formats may include multiple choice, filling in the missing word, or a constructed response where they must show their work. On the Minnesota writing exam, students are given a test booklet with certain pages marked for their draft writing, and then they are supposed to write their "final" response on designated pages. If students do this incorrectly, they do not receive any points for the writing section. The department of education for each state probably has sample tests available either online or in packets that can be sent to your school. Teachers should familiarize themselves with the different testing requirements and different types of questions in order to introduce the format to students.
Help ELL students recognize that it is okay to skip questions if they find them too difficult and return to them later if they have time. This is a simple strategy, but without this knowledge an ELL student may spend too much time on one question and lose valuable points on questions they could have answered more easily.
Provide instructions or tests in the students' native language if they are available and allowed by the state, and if the native language truly is the student's stronger language. For example, if a student has never had math instruction in his or her native language, it may be easier to take the test in English, the language of instruction. The reverse is also true. If a student has studied a subject in the native language, it will be beneficial to take the test in that language, if it is available. Regardless of the language of instruction, students may benefit from listening to directions in their native language.
Help more advanced ELL students understand the difference between literal and inferential questions. I have seen ELL students scour a reading passage desperately searching for a direct answer to an inference question. Use everyday examples to assist students with the idea of inference. For example, a teacher may respond to a student's question of, "Can we turn the heat down?" by saying, "Oh, I can infer that you think it is too hot in here because you want me to turn the heat down." She challenged the students to look for other ways that messages are inferred and to share them with the class.
Ask students to give evidence for their answers in daily classroom discussions. This gets students into the habit of examining their own thinking and recognizing the need to link ideas to content. This is helpful on a test where they may need to explain why they chose a certain answer. It also can help them in checking their answers before turning in the test.
There are many articles, books and programs on how to help students achieve better on required tests. It is important to recognize that some of these will work well for ELL students, and some will not. Teachers need to know their individual students' language backgrounds and English levels to determine what is most appropriate.
How can teachers and administrators effectively talk to parents and students about the tests?
Again, this depends a lot on the ELL community your school serves. A refugee community in which most residents have had very few opportunities for formal schooling will have different needs than a second-generation bilingual community in which most residents have received a lot of their education in the U.S. The most important thing is not to assume that parents know what you are talking about when you discuss the tests. This is even true for many of my English-speaking friends who have children in the schools. The tests and government requirements change regularly, and the reporting of scores can be confusing.
If an explanation of the administration and scoring of the test is available in a parent's native language, it should be provided, but again, that doesn't mean the parent will definitely understand the explanation. Some languages do not have direct translations for vocabulary related to academic content areas, testing, and accountability. The test scores and the impact they can have on a child's education may not be clear to many parents. In addition to meeting parents at conferences and discussing student performance, it is helpful to have a parent meeting where testing requirements and scoring can be explained in the parents' native language and they have an opportunity to ask questions.
Assure parents that the teachers and administrators at your school are working hard to provide quality instruction for their child, and give specific examples of the kind of support that is available. It is also helpful to highlight the difference between social and academic language because many parents may have the impression that their child is very fluent in English so they won't understand why they didn't perform better on the test. Educators may want to provide parents with a list of academic content words and phrases that they can reinforce with their children while doing homework.
It can be difficult to have a school's success evaluated in part by student test scores, especially when many of the students live in poverty or are learning English. However, teachers have a unique opportunity to assist ELL students in accelerating their academic English and content knowledge, which will lead to dramatic improvement on tests and success in school. While it is difficult to see ELL students worry about taking tests in a language they don't understand and to see schools and districts receive poor ratings because they are responsible for educating large numbers of ELL students, I am glad that ELL students' academic needs are being recognized and their performance is being measured.
When everyone takes on the responsibility of educating students who are learning English as a second language, they are more likely to receive increased support and quality instruction. In this way, we will ensure that future generations have the knowledge and skills to succeed regardless of their language or economic background.
The Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center provides training, technical assistance, and research to support states and school districts in the administration and implementation of Title III programs under the No Child Left Behind Act. Here you'll find direct links to materials NWREL has created for teachers, staff, and families; State guidance and regulations; and National clearinghouses for the most up-to-date, useful information to help you serve English Language Learners in your schools and communities.
Schools Moving Up has an archived collection of educational Webcasts and resource materials on topics such as formative assessment, closing the learning gap in California schools, and quality teaching for English-language learners.
The new PreK-12 English Language Proficiency Standards, an augmentation of the WIDA English Language Proficiency Standards, provides extensive matrices elucidating sample performance indicators, organized by the five standards (targeting language in social/intercultural interactions, language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies) and grade-level cluster. This publication is available for purchase from TESOL.


IMTS 2018 will be the 32nd edition of the premier manufacturing technology show in North America. IMTS 2016 hosted the highest number of exhibiting companies ever (2,407) and was the third largest in the number of registrations (115,612) and in net square feet of exhibit space (1,370,256) at the McCormick Place complex. IMTS is held every even-numbered year in Chicago and attracts buyers and sellers from 117 countries.


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Telly series "Hide & Seek" displays a police officer Gary who after losing his partner is a shooting that was too well done to be random pleads to revenge. His partner Kelly is involved in these plans as well. Detective will find a powerful criminal gang which will end in danger to all the "legal" participants and people who are dear for them. TV show will display at what point games with Death may end.


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Palin's Speech Was Fine. But What's The Goal Here?
Just about every liberal I know thinks that Sarah Palin unleashed a terrifyingly effective speech tonight. I'm not convinced. It was a solid red-meat speech, sure, and she was smart to take up the attack-dog role: It will create a fresh storyline, and it was light years better than having her weakly protest that she is too ready to lead. And, yes, she lied about opposing the "Bridge to Nowhere," but maybe she thinks the press won't call her on it. (Certainly this speech won't stop the swarms of reporters digging into her past, but nothing she could've said would've done that.) Did she look presidential? The whole thing looked like one big surreal circus to me, but I'm biased and not a median undecided voter in Ohio or wherever, so I'll beg off on that one.
The main problem for the Republicans, I think, is the overall message: The McCain campaign is gambling that they can pull off a dramatic reversal here and hop on the "change" bandwagon—as a friend points out, they're essentially rehashing Hillary Clinton's strategy from the Democratic primary: Palin's attacking Obama for offering nothing more than empty speeches while claiming that she's the real agent of change. But that didn't work for Hillary Clinton, and I have a hard time seeing it work for McCain, who still has the Bush albatross around his neck and a far less compelling economic message to work with.


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Zombie Panic! Source Review
By Zombie Gaming on June 9, 2014
Zombie Panic Source
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"The greatest Source Based Game Mod ever created. Any Zombie Gaming fan must play this mod before playing anything else!"
Zombie Panic! Source (ZPS) is by far the first Half-Life Source mod to innovate and inspire a new type of Zombie Gaming enthusiast. This Half-Life first person shooter modification (mod) has become the standard for all Zombie themed Half-Life Source Mods. It has also been an inspiration for many other stand-alone Zombie games for almost a decade. 2007 saw the release of ZPS, the sequel to the cult following, Zombie Panic. ZPS introduced a wide variety of new game play modes, characters, weapons and maps. It innovated cooperative-style gameplay introducing a wide variety of objective-style maps which still holds up to this day. With the inception of mod db website back in 2002, a new era of game modification awards arose. ZPS was selected in 2007 as the winner as the Best unreleased mod of the year. While Zombie Panic Source does not have the same volume of live Gamers that it did nearly 10 years ago, the fact that it is still played coupled with a hard-core group of enthusiastic fans and developers who still wish to see it evolve, prove its value. This game fosters an extremely tight Community consisting of heavily dedicated fan players and developers. The dedication to this game has resulted in the recent announcement that development on ZPS will resume once again. More importantly, the ZPS development team has confirmed that the upcoming ZPS 3.0 version release will upgrade the core game engine to Source 2013.
ZPS is a cooperative survival zombie horror Half-Life 2 Modification, the sequel to the popular Half-Life Modification Zombie Panic. In the aftermath of extremely chaotic events, you find yourself a member of a small group of survivors attempting to stay alive. Fending off the undead, and in some cases other humans, seems to be an impossible task. However at your disposal, you managed to acquire a wide variety of fire arms, explosives, and unique items to aid you in your fight. There are two basic sides. Either you play as a survivor, a human attempting to survive the bloodshed and carnage of zombies. If fate would have it, you possibly may be marked to play as an infected, turning into a Zombie whose primary objective is to eat the flesh of survivors still alive in the game. Upon killing every new survivor, you add members to your undead army until the last living human remains.
Graphics & Gameplay
For one playing this game for the first time, graphics don't necessarily jump out at you as compared with game of today, however it is apparently clear that this was innovated for its day and still grabs your attention. You have six characters to choose from. These six characters are pretty static, there is not really the ability to customize these characters in any say. Zombies include a zombie version of each of the six human characters and one whitey or carrier zombie. The overall gameplay is based off of the simple concept that once a player dies, they are immediately added to the Zombie team. With an ever growing undead army, game play is extremely fun. With this foundation concept in mind, you have the ability to play in one of four game modes categories:*
Survival Mode: The most popular mode. You are one of 22 survivors who are attempting to survive the zombie apocalypse. Watch out, infected carriers will red uce your human team down, adding numbers to the undead army. There are two teams, humans and zombies. Zombies attempt to kill every human player, period. Humans, attempt to eradicate the zombies (with their corresponding zombie lives) until there are none left. Zombie lives are a set number of zombie re-spawns that are given to the Zombie team based on the total number of players in the game.
Objective Mode: Objective modes are broken into two types. The traditional objective map requires one to find keys, open locked doors, hack a computer, find fuel and get to the choppa! While timed objective maps simply require the humans to survive for a specific amount of time.
Hardcore Mode: For experienced zombie connoisseurs, you and your teammates get to enjoy pitting yourselves against extra tough foes, and even rougher odds.
Assault Mode: Capture the Point. Points are awarded for completing side objectives, adding to the overall score of the players' team which in the end decides the victory.
Deathmatch Mode: Zombie Gaming is the exclusive community who hosts all of the ZPS Deathmatch maps.
What truly has made this such a great game for all of these years are the custom maps. This game's development team encourages custom maps. The majority of these maps are actually created and maintained by the fan community. With such impressive maps continually being injected into a wide variety of fan based servers, it has proven to be a long lasting staple. Speaking of fan based servers, did I mention the fact that this game is hosted primary by fans and dedicated gaming communities. This can be both a good and bad thing. From a positive perspective, fan or community hosted servers really fosters gaming community and clans, bringing together a better gaming experience. However with such liberal hosting, the questions and issues around game quality and experience may fall short on those individuals hosting with equipment that is sub-par. Along with private hosting allows for the ability of server admins to run specialized tools such as SourceMod to keep gameplay moving, has been another leading factor to success.
If a few added features could be introduced, this would be my top 3:
New Barricade Building – hammer, nails and boards are great, however it would be very impressive to allow for humans to have unique ways to construct new and elaborate barricades. In turn, the Carrier Zombie should have some additional abilities to destroy such barricades
New Weapons – While we all love the original set of weapons, the introduction of maybe a scoped weapon would be very interesting. I also wouldn't mind seeing a "Lucile" show up!
New Maps – It would be great to see some new survival and objective maps that spawn some great gameplay
With the development team making the announcement of the release of ZPS 3.0, the future is looking bright for ZPS. Moving to Source 2013 is going to bring a remarkable upgrade to the face of this game. With better graphics, smoother gameplay and more effective hosting capabilities, I have no concerns to what is to come. I am excited to see how additional game features and maps are going to contribute to the popularity of this game.
If you love a fast paced, first person Zombie shooter, this is your game. Over the span of nearly 10 years playing countless hours with some great people, even today, I am still playing with many of those same people. The positives of this game far outweighs any improvement areas that could be identified. This game is truly the greatest Zombie HL2 Mod ever created. Any Zombie Gaming fan must play this mod before playing anything else!
* Info Source – From the official Zombie Panic! Source Steam Page
Fast Pace First-Person Zombie Shooter
Private Server Hosting
Different Play Modes for a Different Experience
Map and Modifications Development
Smooth Gameplay
Not Developed for Newer Source Engine
Limited to Six Characters
Number of Players limited to 24
Lack of Working Steam Achievements
No Cross Platform Gaming Offering
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Q: How to make each executor read or write from hbase? I tried to broadcast the connection, but I don't know how to solve the serialization problem.
val messages = KafkaUtils.createDirectStream[String, String, StringDecoder, StringDecoder](ssc, kafkaParams, topicsSet)

messages.map(_._2).filter(_.length > 0).foreachRDD(rdd => {
  val hbaseConf = HBaseConfiguration.create
  hbaseConf.set("hbase.rootdir", "hdfs://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9000/hbase")
  hbaseConf.set("hbase.zookeeper.quorum", "Master,slave1,slave2")
  val connection = ConnectionFactory.createConnection(hbaseConf)

  val hbaseBr = ssc.sparkContext.broadcast(connection)
  rdd.foreach(x => {
    DataHandlingUtil.dataHandle(x, nameMap, dictBroadcast, platformMapBr, hbaseBr.value)
  })
})

ssc.start()
ssc.awaitTermination()

A: You should go for this code to make each executor create connection:
dstream.foreachRDD { rdd =>
  rdd.foreachPartition { partitionOfRecords =>
    val connection = createNewConnection()
    partitionOfRecords.foreach(record => connection.send(record))
    connection.close()
  }
}

Better version :
dstream.foreachRDD { rdd =>
  rdd.foreachPartition { partitionOfRecords =>
    // ConnectionPool is a static, lazily initialized pool of connections
    val connection = ConnectionPool.getConnection()
    partitionOfRecords.foreach(record => connection.send(record))
    ConnectionPool.returnConnection(connection)  // return to the pool for future reuse
  }
}

Note: Copied the above code from Spark streaming programming guide : https://spark.apache.org/docs/1.2.0/streaming-programming-guide.html
Another choice is to use HBaseContext which has bulkGet, bulkPut, bulkDelete methods built in.
Here is a sample code:
val hbaseConf = HBaseConfiguration.create()
hbaseConf.set(HConstants.ZOOKEEPER_QUORUM, "hbase_URL")
hbaseConf.setInt(HConstants.ZOOKEEPER_CLIENT_PORT, 2181)
implicit val hbaseC = new HBaseContext(new SparkContext(new SparkConf()), hbaseConf)

A line about HBaseContext : At the root of all Spark and HBase integration is the HBaseContext. The HBaseContext takes in HBase configurations and pushes them to the Spark executors. This allows us to have an HBase Connection per Spark Executor in a static location.
For more details, go to this link https://hbase.apache.org/book.html


In the previous blog post, we discussed about perceptrons. We learnt how to train a perceptron in Python to achieve a simple classification task. If you need a quick refresher on perceptrons, you can check out that blog post before proceeding further. In a way, perceptron is a single layer neural network with a single neuron. In this blog post, we will learn how to develop a multilayer neural network. A multilayer neural network consists of multiple layers and each layer consists of many perceptrons, and it is much better at classifying data that a single perceptron. So how exactly does a multilayer neural network function? How do we build it in Python?
What is a multilayer neural network?
As we can see here, this network consists of one input layer, two hidden layers, and one output layer. The hidden layers are not exactly "hidden", it's just the nomenclature. Any layer that's not input or output is called "hidden". Each perceptron in the first layer takes all the inputs and makes a decision. The perceptrons in the next layer take the outputs of these perceptrons in the first layer and take decisions. Similarly, the perceptron in the output layer takes a decision based on the outputs of the perceptrons in the second hidden layer to get the final result.
How do we train a multilayer neural network?
Each perceptron in the network has a set of weights and a bias associated with it. Wait a minute, what does that mean? Well, as we discussed in the previous blog post, each perceptron has a weight associated with each input. We need to weigh each input and compute the weighted sum. We can then threshold it to decide the output. Now when we say we want to "train" a perceptron, we basically want to find out the right set of weights and the threshold (also known as bias) that will produce the desired output. When we want to train a neural network with many perceptrons, we need to tune the weights and biases for all the perceptrons until we get the desired result.
By forcing the perceptron output to 0 or 1, aren't we losing information? Doesn't that make our neural network less optimal? Well, that's true! To overcome that, people introduced sigmoid neurons. It's basically the same as a perceptron, except that the output is a real number between 0 and 1. This way, the neurons in the network are free to learn everything about the input data. Sigmoid neurons are actually very interesting and we will discuss more about them in the next blog post. We will also discuss the training algorithms used to find the associated weights and biases.
The predicted outputs are much closer to the actual output in this case. We are all set! You just trained a multilayer neural network to predict the outputs for your training data.
This entry was posted in Machine Learning, Programming and tagged Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Neural Networks, Deep Learning, Python by Prateek Joshi. Bookmark the permalink.
I am interested in knowing , how to decide the value of number of hidden layers and number of neurons in each hidden layer, I am finding it very difficult to decide for my academic project which has 38 features .(i,e 38 Input Neurons) and it is classification problem so 1 output neuron.
It heavily depends on the problem at hand and the computational constraints. Generally, if you increase the number of hidden layers, you are giving more freedom to your network to train (hence you will get better performance). At the same time, it will also increase the amount of time it takes to train your network. So it's a trade off! The number of output neurons depends on the number of classes in your training data. For example, if your training data has 3 classes, then you should have 3 output neurons.
Thank you!, I have one more thing to clarify, as of now, i am not using neurolab or sklearn framework for the development. Instead i did manage to write code that came from the basic derivation that we derive for finding the error and updating the weights and biases.
Since i can feel the how feedback is propagated back to all the layers from the output layer.
But the issue with this is, Outputs between the execution vary a lot!!
Any Idea? why it is so?


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»09. Knowledge Notes
»IEG Fast Track Brief
The World Bank's Involvement in Global and Regional Partnership Programs : An Independent Assessment
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The objectives of the Global and Regional Partnership Programs (GRPPs) that Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) has reviewed have been highly relevant. Most programs have had positive achievements in terms of outputs. The sustainability of a number of programs is threatened by weak resource mobilization strategies, failure to keep up with the changing global and regional context, and difficulties in demonstrating results at the outcome level. The Bank's management and oversight of GRPPs shows strengths and weaknesses. Many task teams have brought extraordinary dedication and ownership to their programs. The Bank hasplayed to its comparative advantage in convening and mobilizing resources for new programs.But the implementation of the Bank's strategic and policy agenda to promote effective partnershipshas essentially stalled over the last three years.The DGF has had a number of successes, but it is no longer the umbrella facility for the Bank'sgrant financing arrangements. During its strategic reorientation toward a "venture capital" model,the DGF should focus on building sustainable institutional arrangements for new programs that can survive the Bank's financial exit and on securing multi donor financing from the outset.
"Independent Evaluation Group. 2011. The World Bank's Involvement in Global and Regional Partnership Programs : An Independent Assessment. IEG Fast Track Brief;. World Bank, Washington, DC. © World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/29258 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO."
The World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment — An Evaluation
The World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) assess the conduciveness of a country's policy and institutional framework to poverty reduction, sustainable growth, and the effective use of development assistance. It plays an important role in the country performance ratings that have been used for allocating resources from the International Development Association (IDA) to eligible countries since 1980. This evaluation takes the premise that beyond informing IDA allocation, the CPIA is useful as a broad indicator of development effectiveness. It assesses the relevance of the content of the CPIA through a review of the economics literature. It also assesses the reliability of CPIA ratings in two ways-through comparing CPIA ratings with similar indicators, and through reviewing the CPIA ratings generation process. Based on these assessments, the evaluation derives ...
The World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) assess the conduciveness of a country's policy and institutional framework to poverty reduction, sustainable growth, and the effective use of development assistance. It plays an important role in the country performance ratings that have been used for allocating resources from the International Development Association (IDA) to eligible countries since 1980. This evaluation takes ...
The World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) assess the conduciveness of a country's policy and institutional framework to poverty reduction, sustainable growth, and the effective use of development assistance. It plays an important role in the country performance ratings that have been used for allocating ...
Alternatives to Infrastructure Privatization Revisited : Public Enterprise Reform from the 1960s to the 1980s
Gómez-Ibáñez, José A. (2007-11)
Frustration with the performance of State-owned enterprises (SOEs) has led to two rounds of reform: the first round, from the 1960s through the 1980s, attempted to improve SOE performance while maintaining public ownership while the second, beginning in the late 1980s, viewed privatization as the answer. Interest in the earlier round of reform has increased recently as controversy has slowed or halted privatization in many countries, especially for SOEs providing infrastructure services that are basic to everyday life and are thought to have elements of monopoly. This paper reexamines the earlier round of reforms, focusing particularly on efforts to increase the firms' capacity with infusions of human and physical capital, to strengthen managerial incentives through performance contracts and corporatization and to alter the mix of political and economic forces that impinge on the ...
Frustration with the performance of State-owned enterprises (SOEs) has led to two rounds of reform: the first round, from the 1960s through the 1980s, attempted to improve SOE performance while maintaining public ownership while the second, beginning in the late 1980s, viewed privatization as the answer. Interest in the earlier round of reform has increased recently as controversy has slowed or halted privatization in many countries, especially ...
Frustration with the performance of State-owned enterprises (SOEs) has led to two rounds of reform: the first round, from the 1960s through the 1980s, attempted to improve SOE performance while maintaining public ownership while the second, beginning in the late 1980s, viewed privatization as the answer. Interest in the earlier ...
Brazil's Primary Care Strategy
Couttolenc, Bernard; Dmytraczenko, Tania (2013-01)
This case study summarizes the responses to the questionnaire on The Nuts and Bolts of the Program Expanding Health Coverage to the Poor, developed within the framework of the World Bank's UNICO - Universal Challenge Program. By so doing, it assesses the key features and the achievements and challenges of Brazil s Primary Care Strategy (PCS) and analyzes the contribution of this strategy to the establishment and implementation of universal coverage. Section 2 provides context for the discussion by summarizing key reforms and the impact of the PCS and describes Brazil s health care delivery and financing system. The institutional architecture and interaction of the health care program (HCP), in this case the PCS, is discussed in section 3. Sections 4 through 8 outline the main features of the strategy, including the identification and targeting of beneficiaries, management of public funds, services covered, and the information environment. The case study concludes with a discussion of lessons learned (section 9) and the pending agenda (section 10).
This case study summarizes the responses to the questionnaire on The Nuts and Bolts of the Program Expanding Health Coverage to the Poor, developed within the framework of the World Bank's UNICO - Universal Challenge Program. By so doing, it assesses the key features and the achievements and challenges of Brazil s Primary Care Strategy (PCS) and analyzes the contribution of this strategy to the establishment and implementation of universal coverage. Section 2 provides context for the discussion by summarizing key reforms and the impact of the PCS ...
This case study summarizes the responses to the questionnaire on The Nuts and Bolts of the Program Expanding Health Coverage to the Poor, developed within the framework of the World Bank's UNICO - Universal Challenge Program. By so doing, it assesses the key features and the achievements and challenges of Brazil s Primary Care Strategy (PCS) and analyzes the contribution of this strategy to the establishment ...


The award will support the National CyberWatch Center, which is headquartered at Prince George's Community College.
Maryland's Prince George's Community College recently received a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
"The four-year NSF grant, announced in late September, continues a partnership between the agency and the community college," writes ITworld's Grant Gross. "In 2005, the NSF gave the college a grant to set up a regional program called CyberWatch, which [has] grown to a consortium of 95 colleges and universities and about 50 companies and other organizations focused on educating future cybersecurity professionals."
"The [CyberWatch] program, which focuses on the Greater Washington metropolitan area, has received about $8 million to date, including the original $5 million grant that started the program and the first $2.7 million installment of the new grant, the center's director, Casey O'Brien, said Monday," writes Gazette.Net's Lindsey Robbins. "The remaining $2.3 million is to be distributed in fiscal 2014 and '15, he said."
"The award is a testament to the hard work and accomplishments of the CyberWatch team at Prince George's Community College," Charlene M. Dukes, president of Prince George's Community College, said in a statement. "The grant extends the CyberWatch Center's scope and prominence and serves as validation of the great work already done."


for Hunter people, at Shortland.
Providing care to more than 13,000 people each year.
As the oldest working private hospital in Hunter area, Hunter Valley Private Hospital treats over 13,000 patients a year.
We provide a range of surgical and medical services including rehabilitation, palliative care and pain management.
Hunter Valley Private Hospital is accredited by ACHS and has a dedicated focus on providing quality healthcare to our patients.


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The Glimpse Group Reports Record Fiscal First Quarter 2023 Financial Results
By: ACCESSWIRE
Fiscal First Quarter FY 2023 Total Revenues Grew by 287% Year-over-Year to a Record of Approximately $4.0 million; Committed to Reaching Cash Flow Neutrality From Existing Operations in CY '23
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / November 14, 2022 / The Glimpse Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRAR, FSE:9DR) ("Glimpse" or the "Company"), a diversifiedVirtual Reality and Augmented Reality ("VR" and "AR") platform company providing enterprise-focused VR and AR software & services immersive technology solutions, provided financial results for its fiscal first quarter ended September 30, 2022 ("Q1 FY'23").
Business Commentary by President & CEO Lyron Bentovim
Q1 FY '23 (July - September '22) was highlighted by:
Record Q1 FY'23 quarterly revenue of approximately $4.0 million, a 287% increase compared to Q1 FY'22 revenues of approximately $1.0 million, and a 58% increase compared to Q4 FY '22, in which we had our prior record quarterly revenue of approximately $2.5 million.
Record Q1 FY'23 Core Software & Services revenue, which excludes project revenue, of approximately $1.28 million, an increase of 49% compared to Q1 FY'22.
The Q1 FY'23 results include two months of Brightline Interactive ("BLI") financials, the acquisition of which closed on August 1, 2022. BLI generated approximately $5 million of revenues in calendar year 2021, with 65% gross margins and positive net income.
The Company's cash and equivalent position as of September 30, 2022 was approximately $13.0 million, including $2 million cash held in escrow for potential future performance payments relating to the S5D acquisition. With the core S5D and Brightline acquisitions complete, we do not expect to utilize our current cash balance as part of the purchase price of any acquisition we may make in the foreseeable future.
We continue to maintain a clean capital structure with no debt, no convertible debt, no preferred equity or any other material cash obligations.
In Q1, 2023, Gross Margin was approximately 70% and Adjusted EBITDA loss for the quarter was $1.1 million, compared to a $0.6 million Adjusted EBITDA loss for the three months ended September 30, 2021.
The Company's operating cost structure remains predominantly variable. Through continued revenue growth, combined with expense controls, we are committed to reaching cash flow neutrality from our existing operations in calendar year '23.
Recent Operational Highlights:
Continued to enter into contracts and partnership with leading global companies. For example:
Glimpse subsidiary company S5D completed a mid-6 figure contract for the development of a 3D interactive gamified experience and NFTs for a partner event in numerus geographies held by a Fortune 50 global technology company.
Glimpse subsidiary company XR Terra entered into six figure agreement with one of the largest telecommunication companies for the training in VR skills of several hundred K-12 teachers.
Glimpse subsidiary company S5D entered into mid-six figure agreement with a global pharmaceutical company, to continue development of its interactive anatomy training platform.
Glimpse subsidiary company BLI is partnering with AT&T for a collaborative immersive technologies/5G demonstration to be deployed at I/ITSEC, the largest training and Simulation Tradeshow in the US.
Successfully completed the integration process of S5D, BLI and PulpoAR.
Just as Glimpse has achieved critical scale in aggregate, we believe that there are key strategic advantages in creating more scale within our subsidiary companies. As such, we have begun the process of consolidating some of our subsidiary companies into larger core entities, a process which we expect will be concluded by year-end 2022. At the end of this process, we expect to have 6-8 larger remaining subsidiary companies, which will allow us to maximize go-to-market and branding synergies, optimize operations and reduce overlaps.
Recent IP Highlights
We expanded our Intellectual Property assets with two new patents via the BLI transaction:
9th U.S. Patent for an "Immersive Ecosystem", which transferred to Glimpse from BLI.
10th U.S. Patent for "System and Method for Generating an Augmented Reality Experience", which transferred to Glimpse from BLI.
We have several more patents in process and view our patents as forward looking, strategically positioned, with significant potential and importance when the immersive industry matures.
"Our first quarter of FY '23 served as continued validation of our organic and accretive acquisition growth strategies," said Lyron Bentovim, President and CEO of The Glimpse Group. "In a challenging environment, we maintained strong momentum, finalized the integration of our three recent acquisitions, and achieved a record revenue results, well above our previous records. We have consistently proven our ability to rapidly scale and are solidifying our position as a premier player in the immersive technology software and services space. With that, the immersive technology industry is still in its early stages of development and we are cognizant of the macro trends. Therefore - as a strategic goal - we are determined and committed to reach cash flow neutrality from the operations of our current business in 2023."
Q1 FY '23 Financial Summary
Total revenue for the three months ended September 30, 2022, was approximately $4.0 million compared to approximately $1.0 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021, an increase of approximately 287%. The increase reflects the addition of several subsidiary companies after September 30, 2021, organic growth and new customers.
For the three months ended September 30, 2022, Software Services revenue was approximately $3.9 million compared to approximately $0.8 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021, an increase of approximately 383%. The increase reflects the addition of several subsidiary companies after September 30, 2021, organic growth and new customers
For the three months ended September 30, 2022, Software License revenue was approximately $0.09 million compared to approximately $0.22 million for the for the three months ended September 30, 2021, reflecting a difference in timing of renewals.
For the three months ended September 30, 2022, core software and services revenue (i.e. VR/AR software and services revenue, excluding projects), was approximately $1.3 million compared to approximately $0.86 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021, an increase of approximately 49%. For the three months ended September 30, 2022, core software and services revenue accounted for approximately 32% of total revenues compared to approximately 84% for the three months ended September 30, 2021.
For the three months ended September 30, 2022, gross profit margin was approximately 69%, compared to a gross profit margin of approximately 85% for the three months ended September 30, 2021. The decrease was driven by the addition of BLI and S5D lower margin project revenue.
Operating expenses for the three months ended September 30, 2022, were approximately $8.2 million compared to $2.3 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021, an increase of approximately 260%. The increase was driven by employee headcount additions to support growth, the addition of several new subsidiaries (which includes headcount, amortization of intangibles and professional fees related to the acquisitions) and the change in fair value of acquisition contingent consideration.
We sustained a net loss for the three months ended September 30, 2022 of $5.4 million, compared to a net loss of approximately $1.7 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021, a loss increase of $3.72 million or 224%. $2.41 million of this loss increase is driven by the non-cash change in fair value of acquisition contingent consideration. The balance primarily represents operating expense growth outpacing revenue and related gross profit. This reflects current expense outlays in all areas of the Company to propel future growth, including the acquisition of several new subsidiaries and related costs.
Net cash used in operating activities for the three months ended September 30, 2022 was approximately $3.1 million, compared to approximately $1.1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021.
For the three months ended September 30, 2022 Adjusted EBITDA loss, a non-GAAP measure, was $1.1 million, compared to $0.6 million Adjusted EBITDA loss for the three months ended September 30, 2021.
As of September 30, 2022, the Company's cash position was approximately $10.6 million plus $0.24 million of liquid corporate bond investments, compared to $16.2 million at June 30, 2022. This includes $2.0 million cash escrow for contingent consideration of the S5D acquisition, payable upon S5D's achievement of revenue growth performance targets (refundable to Glimpse if targets not achieved). The Company has no convertible debt, preferred equity or material cash obligations.
Fiscal First Quarter 2023 Conference Call and Webcast:
Time: 4:30 p.m. Eastern time
US Dial In: 1-877-545-0320
International Dial In: 1-973-528-0002
Conference ID: 234685
Webcast: https://www.webcaster4.com/Webcast/Page/2934/47012
Please dial in at least 10 minutes before the start of the call to ensure timely participation.
A playback of the webcast will be available through November 14, 2023. A replay of the teleconference will be available through Monday, November 28, 2022. To listen, call 1-877-481-4010 within the United States or 1-919-882-2331 when calling internationally and enter replay access code 47012. A webcast will also be available on the IR section of The Glimpse Group website or by clicking the webcast link above.
Note about Non-GAAP Financial Measures
A non-GAAP financial measure is a numerical measure of a company's performance, financial position, or cash flows that either excludes or includes amounts that are not normally excluded or included in the most directly comparable measure calculated and presented in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, or GAAP. Non-GAAP measures are not in accordance with, nor are they a substitute for, GAAP measures. Other companies may use different non-GAAP measures and presentation of results.
In addition to financial results presented in accordance with GAAP, this press release presents adjusted EBITDA, which is a non-GAAP measure. Adjusted EBITDA is determined by taking net loss and adding interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and stock-based compensation expenses. The company believes that this non-GAAP measure, viewed in addition to and not in lieu of net loss, provides useful information to investors by providing a more focused measure of operating results. This metric is an integral part of the Company's internal reporting to evaluate its operations and the performance of senior management. A reconciliation of adjusted EBITDA to net loss, the most comparable GAAP measure, is available in the accompanying financial tables below. The non-GAAP measure presented herein may not be comparable to similarly titled measures presented by other companies.
About The Glimpse Group, Inc.
The Glimpse Group (NASDAQ: VRAR, FSE: 9DR) is a diversified Virtual and Augmented Reality platform company, comprised of multiple VR and AR software & services companies, and designed with the specific purpose of cultivating companies in the emerging VR/AR industry. Glimpse's unique business model simplifies challenges faced by VR/AR companies and creates a robust ecosystem, while simultaneously providing investors an opportunity to invest directly into the emerging VR/AR industry via a diversified platform. For more information on The Glimpse Group, please visit www.theglimpsegroup.com
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(Unaudited) As of
(Audited)
Deferred costs/contract assets
Equipment, net
Note receivable
- 250,000
Right-of-use assets
1,066,772 -
Accrued liabilities
Accrued bonuses
Deferred revenue/contract liabilities
Asset purchase payable
Lease liabilities, current portion
Contingent consideration for acquisitions, current portion
Long term liabilities
Contingent consideration for acquisition, net of current portion
11,400,300 5,340,800
Lease liabilities, net of current portion
Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share, 20 million shares
authorized; 0 shares issued and outstanding
Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share, 300 million shares
authorized; 13,593,734 and 12,747,624 issued and outstanding
For the Three Months Ended
Sep 30,
$ 3,862,514 $ 804,718
Software license/software as a service
General and administrative expenses
Sales and marketing expenses
Change in fair value of acquisition contingent consideration
Loss from operations before other income (expense)
Loss on conversion of convertible notes
- (279,730 )
50,154 (260,107 )
Basic and diluted net loss per share
$ (0.40 ) $ (0.17 )
Weighted-average shares used to compute basic and diluted net loss per share
For the Three Months Ended September 30,
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:
Amortization and depreciation
Common stock and stock option based compensation for employees and board of directors
Acquisition contingent consideration fair value adjustment
Issuance of common stock to vendors as compensation
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Pre-offering costs
323,083 (17,185 )
6,135 (80,000 )
255,999 (151,969 )
(1,653,711 ) 15,630
Cash flow from investing activities:
Purchases of equipment
(2,478,756 ) -
Purchase of investments
(2,565,811 ) (18,225 )
Proceeds from initial public offering, net
Proceeds from exercise of stock options
Net cash provided by financing activities
39,915 11,867,064
Net change in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, beginning of year
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, end of year
Non-cash Investing and Financing activities:
Common stock issued for BLI acquisition
Issuance of common stock for satisfaction of contingent liability, net of note extinguishment
$ 318,571 $ -
Extinguishment of note receivable for satisfaction of contingent liability
Issuance of common stock for satisfaction of contingent liability
$ - $ 750,000
Contingent acquisition consideration liability
$ 6,139,000 $ -
Lease liabilities arising from right-to-use assets
Conversion of convertible promissory notes into common stock
$ - $ 1,606,176
Issuance of warrants in connection with initial public offering
The following table presents a reconciliation of net loss to Adjusted EBITDA for the three months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021 (in $MM):
EBITDA (loss)
(4.90 ) (1.63 )
Stock based compensation expenses
Stock based financing related expenses
Acquisition expenses
Non cash change in fair value of acquisition contingent consideration
Adjusted EBITDA (loss)
SOURCE: The Glimpse Group, Inc.
https://www.accesswire.com/725526/The-Glimpse-Group-Reports-Record-Fiscal-First-Quarter-2023-Financial-Results


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If you match everything all right,you will get gifts, what's the presents? The furnitures you can use to decorate your new classroom. That is interesting? Your classroom will get more beautiful. If you are really interested with the decorations, accept your classmates' invitation and do right things.
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Bush-Holley House is the centerpiece of the Greenwich Historical Society's site on Cos Cob Harbor in Greenwich. A unique presentation provides visitors with two distinct time periods — the New Nation (1790-1825) and the Cos Cob Art Colony (1890-1920). Eight evocative, well-documented rooms within the house feature art, furnishings and objects from these two periods, while the historic buildings, landscape and gardens evoke the turn of the twentieth century when Cos Cob became an art colony and cradle of American Impressionism. The Storehouse museum gallery features changing exhibitions.


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# Plugin APIs

Cordova mit einen minimalen Satz von APIs und Projekte hinzufügen, was zusätzliche APIs, die sie durch Plugins erfordern.

Sie können alle vorhandenen Plugins, die mithilfe der [Plugin Registry][1] durchsuchen.

 [1]: http://plugins.cordova.io/

Der traditionelle Satz von Cordova Plugins sind wie folgt:

*   [Batteriestatus][2]

    > Überwachen Sie den Status des Geräts Batterie.

*   [Kamera][3]

    > Ein Foto mit der Gerätekamera zu erfassen.

*   [Kontakte][4]

    > Arbeiten Sie mit der Geräte-Kontaktdatenbank.

*   [Gerät][5]

    > Gerät bestimmte Informationen zu sammeln.

*   [Bewegung Gerät (Beschleunigungssensor)][6]

    > Tippen Sie in das Gerät Weg-und/oder Geschwindigkeitsgeber.

*   [Orientierung des Geräts (Kompass)][7]

    > Erhalten Sie die Richtung, die das Gerät verweist.

*   [Dialoge][8]

    > Visuelle Gerätebenachrichtigungen.

*   [Dateisystem][9]

    > Haken Sie in native Dateisystem durch JavaScript.

*   [File-Transfer][10]

    > Haken Sie in native Dateisystem durch JavaScript.

*   [Geolocation][11]

    > Machen Sie Ihre Anwendung Lage bewusst.

*   [Globalisierung][12]

    > Aktivieren Sie die Darstellung von Objekten, die spezifisch für ein Gebietsschema.

*   [InAppBrowser][13]

    > URLs in einer anderen in-app Browserinstanz zu starten.

*   [Medien][14]

    > Aufzeichnen und Wiedergeben von audio-Dateien.

*   [Medien erfassen][15]

    > Media-Dateien mithilfe des Geräts Media Capture-Anwendungen zu erfassen.

*   [Netzwerkinformationen (Verbindung)][16]

    > Der Netzwerkstatus und Mobilfunknetz Informationen schnell zu überprüfen.

*   [SplashScreen][17]

    > Ein- und Ausblenden der Splash-Screen Anwendungen.

*   [Vibration][18]

    > Eine API, das Gerät zu vibrieren.

 [2]: https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-battery-status/blob/master/doc/index.md
 [3]: https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-camera/blob/master/doc/index.md
 [4]: https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-contacts/blob/master/doc/index.md
 [5]: https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-device/blob/master/doc/index.md
 [6]: https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-device-motion/blob/master/doc/index.md
 [7]: https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-device-orientation/blob/master/doc/index.md
 [8]: https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-dialogs/blob/master/doc/index.md
 [9]: https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-file/blob/master/doc/index.md
 [10]: https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-file-transfer/blob/master/doc/index.md
 [11]: https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-geolocation/blob/master/doc/index.md
 [12]: https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-globalization/blob/master/doc/index.md
 [13]: https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-inappbrowser/blob/master/doc/index.md
 [14]: https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-media/blob/master/doc/index.md
 [15]: https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-media-capture/blob/master/doc/index.md
 [16]: https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-network-information/blob/master/doc/index.md
 [17]: https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-splashscreen/blob/master/doc/index.md
 [18]: https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-vibration/blob/master/doc/index.md

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Chevron pressures foe to settle in Ecuador pollution case
Workers clean up a contaminated pool in Ecuador in 2007.
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Published September 3, 2015 Updated September 3, 2015
With Canada's top court poised to rule in one branch of a global pollution-liability dispute, Chevron backed another one of its many legal foes into submission.
The San Francisco litigation consultancy H5, which had joined forces with U.S. plaintiffs' lawyers to attack Chevron over oil contamination in Ecuador, withdrew from the conflict and assigned its 1.25-per-cent interest in a pending $9.5-billion (U.S.) Ecuadorian judgment to the U.S. energy company. H5, of which the website lists its clients as including Cerberus Capital Management, Koch Industries and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, issued a statement saying it had settled with Chevron after reviewing a March, 2014, ruling by a U.S. district court judge in New York who determined that the Ecuadorian litigation had devolved into an extortion conspiracy against Chevron.
"In view of these findings, among other reasons, H5 has decided it does not want to profit from the Ecuadorian judgment and is therefore relinquishing any interest in the judgment," H5 said. H5 denied any wrongdoing and said it had acted in "good faith."
In 2011, Steven Donziger, a New York lawyer and human-rights activist, won a $19-billion judgment in Ecuador (later halved) against Chevron, blaming the San Ramon, Calif., company for decades of pollution in the Amazon. The pollution case began in 1993 in the United States. Chevron refused to pay the Ecuadorian judgment, countersued Mr. Donziger and his clients in New York, and won an unusual ruling in March, 2014, that branded the Ecuadorian verdict a product of coercion, bribery and racketeering.
Before and since the March 2014 New York racketeering ruling, a series of former U.S. co-counsel, financiers, scientific advisers, and others have disavowed their work with Donziger and backed out of the long-running case – the most recent example being H5.
Donziger has denied wrongdoing and appealed the ruling branding him a racketeer. Meanwhile, his clients have taken their Ecuadorian judgment — which remains valid as far as the tiny Latin American country is concerned — and sought to enforce it elsewhere. They can't enforce it in Ecuador, because Chevron doesn't have any assets there the Ecuadorians could seize.
The global enforcement effort has exported the Ecuadorian case to Argentina, Brazil, and Canada, where Chevron does have assets. The Supreme Court of Canada is expected to rule as early as Friday on whether the Ecuadorian plaintiffs may move ahead with their demand that billions of dollars' worth of Chevron refining and production assets be sold off to satisfy an Ecuadorian judgment the U.S. judiciary has deemed a fraud. After 22 years, the dispute shows no sign of approaching resolution.
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The fate of completed artworks
Artists put a lot of effort into conceptualising and bringing life to their artworks. But what happens to them after they're exhibited?
Artist Manish Lal Shrestha's Gallery Mcube has a room full of his old works. Srizu Bajracharya/TKP
Srizu Bajracharya
Published at : January 14, 2020
When artist Manish Lal Shrestha opens the door to his studio at the Gallery Mcube in Chakupat, a number of his works are on display, some of them are battered and have traces of dust on them. On the sofa, an array of cushions show emulation of Shrestha's popular visual installation, 'Project 1336', which is still travelling the world.
On first glance, it looks like Shrestha has built a band of his completed artworks. These artworks have finished their fundamental purpose and are ageing with time. They now represent a fragment of time, of when the artist manifested an art to make people think.
"Art is not meant to be permanent, everything has a temporary space," says Shrestha.
Over the years, Kathmandu has seen many art exhibitions from various artists, and during their brief shows, their artworks have evoked people's thought processes. They have inspired people, enthralled experiences and even pushed them to question their beliefs. But little is known of what happens to artworks once they are taken down from public exhibitions; where do they go, what purpose do they serve? What is the fate of these artworks?
According to Sharareh Bajracharya, an arts educator and curator, most works after exhibitions travel back to the artist's studio, where they are stored and preserved. "For some artworks, their lives continue in other curatorial works, wherein they travel and remain in the public viewership," she says. "Otherwise, they are stored by the artists, some in proper ways and others unmindfully."
At Shrestha's office, he has framed most of his cherished works. One of which shows his work from 2004, a huge colourful tapestry of 26 metres titled, 'I know to love life, I know to live life, I know to love life…,' which was showcased at the Shiva temple in Bhaktapur. The idea of the installation was to create a collaborative experience with the locals of the old town.
"Clothes are our second skin, but by patching together different coloured clothes, I was trying to show the communal living," he says. "I had placed the artwork on the staircase of the temple to make it seem like a pathway to the higher being."
The installation was put up at the venue for 10 days. But even today, Shrestha's concept of the artwork continues to evolve. The lines and colours of fabric continue to manifest in all of his artworks. It is almost like he is recycling the contents of that installation to create new artworks.
His 2017 art installation 'Project 1336', a 1336-metre long knitted woollen rope resembles in many ways with the idea of his 2004 installation, where he tried to show the diversity of communal living. The project too, was created with the help of various communities.
Shrestha also travelled to Busan to create a 108-metre long tapestry with the locals for the Sea Art Festival 2019 Busan Biennale. And through the years, his artworks have brought together many diverse communities to work cohesively, making his art more powerful.
"I think the afterlife of my artworks can be seen in how my initial idea has continued in all of my new artworks in different ways," says Shrestha.
Another artist, Sheelasha Rajbhandari, believes the life of art begins even before its initiation. "I believe artworks have a life beyond the exhibitions. Their lives begin right from the start of its concept and research—in the process itself. And as the concept evolves, their journey continues," she says.
In 2017, Kathmandu Triennale also showcased her artwork titled, 'I still see that same old house of ours in my dreams,' which was based on Rajbhandari's maternal grandmother. Her art installation showed old wooden sanduks (trunks) filled with her grandmother's memories of kitchen and household utensils, puja thalis and a bed. In Rajbhandari's work, they also stood as metaphors to how women's lives were described in the old days. The wooden trunks also showed various photographs of Rajbhandari's grandmother at the hospital.
"I had always wanted to document my grandmother's narrative, but I didn't know where to start and how," she says. "It was her life experiences, compared and contrasted against the lives of modern women that made me realise how the narratives of women have been dominated by male experience throughout history."
But while she was working on the artwork, her grandmother was hospitalised and soon passed away. This, according to Rajbhandari, even though was devastating to her, made her realise that a lot of what she wants to express remains unfinished. "I still have a lot to say," she says. "So, the idea of it is still unfurling in my other works."
The concept that came to her even before the Triennale series has evolved with time and comes across in many of her recent works.
Another one of her art installations, 'My great-great-grandmother's shawl,' shows photographs of her great-great-grandmother, her grandmother and herself wearing a Damber Kumari Shawl in three different portraits. Her metaphors incite the culture of mass-production in contemporary times and mark the disappearing diverse textile cultures. This piece is now being displayed at the Samdani Art Foundation, in Dhaka.
"When we talk about the afterlife of artworks, I think we also have to see how the artworks live in the experiences of people," she says. "I don't want people to believe that art lives only in the objects they are portrayed in."
And perhaps, therefore, Rajbhandari's work still remains fresh in people's minds; for Rajbhandari, the fate of her artwork remains in what people will remember of her work.
Last year at the Nepal Art Council, artist Hari Prasad Sharma displayed 45 historical paintings of different events in Nepal. Elite Joshi/TKP
But both Shrestha and Rajbhandari affirm that Nepal lacks a space where important artworks can be put up for public display. "There is, of course, a need for an art space to preserve artworks," says Rajbhandari. "But I also think such a space needs to adhere to the cultural art practices of the country. It needs to be contextual to our society, instead of being a copy of the Western museums."
A physical space for art is also important to document and trace the history of art, says Bajracharya, the arts educator. "An art museum can help trace the history of art and its trends. The space can also allow better discourses around art and can create a better art ecosystem," says Bajracharya.
Today many senior artists in the country, with the help of their family and friends, have created their own private galleries to preserve their works. Veteran artist Hari Prasad Sharma's son Bishnu Prasad Sharma has also been working on setting up a physical space at their home to safeguard his father's monumental art pieces.
Eighty-two-year-old Sharma's paintings document various timelines of Nepal's history. His paintings are intricate in their detailing and contain multiple layers about Nepal's important historical records. And while many of his paintings have already been bought by art collectors, in recent years, Sharma's son refrains from selling his works even though many have shown interest in purchasing them. He believes his father's work in time have become a heritage of its own.
"We would love to have his works displayed in a public art museum, however, there is no space in Nepal that take cares of artworks," says Bishnu Prasad Sharma.
His father still visits his old works and spends time cleaning them. "He doesn't paint anymore because of his age. But sometimes he himself is in awe, about the work he did in the past and tells me, 'I don't know how I was able to paint them'," says Sharma. "I want my father's work to live on, but there is no appropriate space for that yet in the city."
But as conversations around art gain more momentum, the life of art itself is also an important discussion that needs to happen say, artists and curators. "Artists have been preserving their work with their personal effort," says Bajracharya. "But, yes, for more discourses around art, we need to question on the art's longevity and its afterlife."
Srizu Bajracharya is a Culture and Arts reporter for The Kathmandu Post.
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PUBLISHED: June 6, 2017 at 12:06 p.m. | UPDATED: April 20, 2018 at 4:53 a.m.
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — Struggling to expand its ranks, the Army will triple the amount of bonuses it's paying this year to more than $380 million, including new incentives to woo reluctant soldiers to re-enlist, officials told The Associated Press.
Some soldiers could get $90,000 up front by committing to another four or more years, as the Army seeks to reverse some of the downsizing that occurred under the Obama administration after years of growth spurred by the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
The enlistment campaign was driven by Congress' decision late last year to beef up the size of the Army, echoing the spirit if not quite the extent of President Donald Trump's campaign promises to significantly increase military staffing and firepower.
Last fall, Trump unveiled a plan that would enlarge the Army to 540,000 soldiers. Army leaders back the general idea, but say more men and women must be accompanied by funding for the equipment, training and support for them.
Under the current plan, the active duty Army will grow by 16,000 soldiers, taking it to 476,000 in total by October. The National Guard and the Army Reserve will see a smaller expansion.
To meet the mandate, the Army must find 6,000 new soldiers, convince 9,000 current soldiers to stay on and add 1,000 officers.
"We've got a ways to go," Gen. Robert Abrams, head of U.S. Army Forces Command, said in an interview at his office in Fort Bragg, N.C. "I'm not going to kid you. It's been difficult because a lot of these kids had plans and their families had plans."
In just the last two weeks, the Army has paid out more than $26 million in bonuses.
The biggest hurdle, according to senior Army leaders, is convincing thousands of enlistees who are only months away from leaving the service to sign up for several more years. Many have been planning their exits and have turned down multiple entreaties to stay.
"The top line message is that the Army is hiring," said Maj. Gen. Jason Evans, who recently became the service's head of Human Resources Command.
Evans said the Army was expanding "responsibly with a focus on quality," insisting there will be no relaxation of standards.
It is a clear reference to last decade, when the Army eased recruitment rules to meet combat demands in Iraq and Afghanistan. At their peak, more than 160,000 U.S. troops were in Iraq and about 100,000 were in Afghanistan. To achieve those force levels, the Army gave more people waivers to enlist, including those with criminal or drug use records.
The Army vows it won't do that again, focusing instead on getting soldiers to re-enlist. Money is the key.
The Army's $550 billion base budget, approved by Congress last month, will provide money for the financial incentives. The latest round of increased bonuses, which became effective less than two weeks ago, are good for at least the next month.
Cyber posts, cryptologists or other intelligence or high tech jobs with certain language skills are particularly rewarded. They can get between $50,000 and $90,000 by agreeing to serve another three to five years. Army special forces can also qualify for top level incentives. But more routine jobs — such as some lower level infantry posts — may get nothing, or just a couple of thousand dollars.
The new bonuses have triggered a spike in re-enlistments, said Mst. Sgt. Mark Thompson, who works with Army retention policies, saying there have been more than 2,200 since May 24.
The Army is about three-quarters of the way to its goal for re-enlistments. But meeting the ultimate target is difficult because the remaining pool of soldiers is comprised of people who "have said no for a long time," Thompson said.
Normally, he said, about a third of eligible soldiers re-enlist each year. This year, the goal requires nearly three-quarters signing on for more years.
In some cases, the personal touch can help.
Across Fort Bragg from Abrams' office, deep in the woods, soldiers from an 82nd Airborne Division unit are conducting a live fire exercise. While evaluating the troops, Col. Greg Beaudoin, commander of 3rd Brigade, also is doing his part to meet the re-enlistment objective.
"I don't think he knows what he wants to do yet in life," Beaudoin said of a soldier on his staff that he urged to re-enlist. "So I told him, 'Here is an opportunity. Just extend for a year until you figure it out. The army is offering you an opportunity. Take your time to figure out what you want to do.'"
Beaudoin said he thinks up to a fifth of his soldiers may stay on, crediting the bonuses for making the choice more attractive.
But the clock is ticking.
"Time is our biggest challenge," Evans said.
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