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Q: GET .json file 404 not found when loading a smart contract I am currently building a blockchain based app. For the starting point I was following the freeCodeCamp.org tutorial for a To Do List (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coQ5dg8wM2o&t=2367s&ab_channel=freeCodeCamp.org), but instead of a to do list I want to extend this to a message exchange.
Unfortunately I am having trouble with loading the contract on the website. The code to load the contract sits in eth-info-ex/src/app.js and is as follows:
loadContract: async () => {
        const ETHINFOEX = await $.getJSON('./ETHINFOEX.json')
        //create a truffle contract - a js representation of a smart contract that allows to call functions on it
        App.contracts.ETHINFOEX = TruffleContract(ETHINFOEX)
        App.contracts.ETHINFOEX.setProvider(new Web3.providers.HttpProvide("http://127.0.0.1:7545"));
        //console.log(ETHINFOEX)
        App.ETHINFOEX = await App.contracts.ETHINFOEX.deployed()
    },

The ETHINFOEX.json file is in the following path: eth-info-ex/build/contracts/ETHINFOEX.json
When I load the app by npm run dev I get the following output:
> eth-info-ex@1.0.0 dev
> lite-server

** browser-sync config **
{
  injectChanges: false,
  files: [ './**/*.{html,htm,css,js}' ],
  watchOptions: { ignored: 'node_modules' },
  server: {
    baseDir: [ './src', '.build/contracts' ],
    middleware: [ [Function (anonymous)], [Function (anonymous)] ],
    routes: { '/vendor': './node_modules' }
  }
}
[Browsersync] Access URLs:
 ---------------------------------------
       Local: http://localhost:3000
    External: http://153.19.246.137:3000
 ---------------------------------------
          UI: http://localhost:3001
 UI External: http://localhost:3001
 ---------------------------------------
[Browsersync] Serving files from: ./src
[Browsersync] Serving files from: .build/contracts
[Browsersync] Watching files...
23.01.14 12:17:59 200 GET /index.html
23.01.14 12:17:59 304 GET /bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css
23.01.14 12:17:59 304 GET /bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.min.js
23.01.14 12:17:59 304 GET /truffle-contract/dist/truffle-contract.js
23.01.14 12:17:59 200 GET /app.js
23.01.14 12:18:00 404 GET /ETHINFOEX.json
23.01.14 12:18:36 304 GET /bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css
23.01.14 12:18:37 200 GET /bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css.map
23.01.14 12:18:37 200 GET /bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.min.js.map

And in the browser the following error:
jquery.min.js:4

GET http://localhost:3000/ETHINFOEX.json 404 (Not Found)
send @ jquery.min.js:4
ajax @ jquery.min.js:4
n.<computed> @ jquery.min.js:4
getJSON @ jquery.min.js:4
loadContract @ app.js:49
load @ app.js:11
await in load (async)
(anonymous) @ app.js:59
dispatch @ jquery.min.js:3
r.handle @ jquery.min.js:3
load (async)
add @ jquery.min.js:3
(anonymous) @ jquery.min.js:3
each @ jquery.min.js:2
each @ jquery.min.js:2
sa @ jquery.min.js:3
on @ jquery.min.js:3
(anonymous) @ carousel.js:496
(anonymous) @ bootstrap.min.js:6
(anonymous) @ bootstrap.min.js:6

I have tried changing the browsers (I tried Edge, Google Chrome and FireFox), I also tried running google with the --allow-file-access-from-file and I also tried editing the path to the file to various combinations:
ETHINFOEX
./build/contracts/ETHINFOEX.json
./contracts/ETHINFOEX.json
and even with the whole path including the drive it is not seen or the web browser states it does not have access to a private path.
I have also tried checking the github repository of freeCodeCamp.org including any repositories made by other users with updates to newer versions but unfortunately I did not find an answer
Has anyone encountered such issue? I would really appreciate any help


It's funny how the more you learn about sustainability, the more there is to learn. Sustainability isn't just about buying locally, recycling, avoiding plastic packaging, and planting a new tree here and there. It needs a mindful, almost holistic, approach and lots of things need to be taken into consideration the ethics, materials, production and journey of products. Consumerism has a lot to answer for too. There isn't a lot of money to be made by persuading people to buy less, or adopt a more natural approach. There is much more money to be made convincing people that they 'need' things to be happy, efficient, or beautiful. Then there is "greenwashing" to consider, companies that focus more on communicating their green efforts than on the efforts themselves.
When you start making changes, the place you look first is the changes that are either the easiest or that would have the biggest impact. Take milk for example. The largest contributor of plastic in our recycle bin. I recently guestimated that we must drink 12 pints a week for our family of six. I was wrong, we consume at least double that, around 24 pints. We use it in cereals hot drinks, smoothies (although I've recently switched to coconut milk for smoothies) custard, homemade Yorkshire puddings & white sauces. We would love to both reduce the amount of milk that we drink and to have our milk delivered by a milkman in glass bottles. I cant however justify a cost of £24 a week, (~£96 a month) on milk through more sustainable glass-bottle deliveries when the comparative plastic-covered supermarket cost is £6 per week (~£24 a month).
The changes that need to be made must come from either the consumer or the government, but any changes made will take time. Consumer power is huge, but its hard to make & stand behind those kinds of ethical & moral decisions when time, resources & finances are tight. Where I live there aren't a lot of zero-waste options, and travelling further afield to buy packaging free options, would be much more expensive and defeat some of the objects. We are a one income family and our decisions have to be economical as well as sustainable.
My star recycler in February, who is always on the lookout for things to recycle, upcycle or compost!
I feel like we have come so far already, we are much more thorough with recycling and composting and we have halved the amount of waste we send to landfill, which is amazing. At the same time, it's almost disheartening at points. Try walking around a regular supermarket looking for things not packaged in plastic, and you will probably only return home with just bananas, apples, sugar and flour: Not enough to feed a family of six an healthy diet. The battle to be sustainable fighting against the need for convenience and the need provide a healthy balanced diet for your family.
In an ideal world, I would bake our own bread from scratch, keep rescue chickens in our garden, shop at independent local butchers, cook every meal from scratch and bake a whole selection of snacks to feed the family through the week:- My neighbours wouldn't appreciate chickens, my children are fussy eaters anyway and I just don't have time.
But does that mean that every small change isn't important? No – because every mindful step is an important step in the right direction. Instead of focusing on the things we don't have the finances & time to change, lets celebrate the changes we are making instead. With that in mind, these are our changes in February & our plans for March.
Last month we used up the last of our liquid shampoo and decided to try solid shampoo bars. So far it has been an easy swap, all six of us using the solid shampoo bars happily now. The one issue we have found is that they need to dry out really well in between uses because they start to fall apart if they stay wet. I did a lot of research first to see where to buy solid shampoo, and which brands people recommended, and I wrote about our findings here. These ones are from Lush and were recommended by a friend, especially 'seanik' (the blue one).
I sometimes adopt a 'send it anyway' approach to recycling, hoping that anything incorrect will be taken out. I've read recently that this can cause a whole batch of recycling to be rejected due to contamination. Which really defeats the whole object of recycling, so I won't be doing that in future!
We have plastic recycling boxes currently, into which we separate plastic, cardboard, glass and metal. This sounds like a good idea in theory, but in practice, it doesn't work very well. Recycling gets blown down our streets in windy weather, and even I, an able-bodied adult find full boxes heavy and awkward to carry. I would say around one-quarter of my street doesn't put out any recycling boxes at all. It would be brilliant if my local council introduced a recycling wheelie bin, which other local councils have successfully done. I think it would encourage more people to recycle, and an increase in recycling volume from those who already do.
Another thing I learnt this month, is that some supermarkets also operate a carrier bag recycling scheme, and other forms of stretchy plastic can also be recycled there. Such as the plastic bread bags, cereal bags, and wrappers from toilet rolls. One of my plans for March is to store this kind of plastic waste to drop off at a recycling point, instead of sending to landfill.
Cleaning with baking soda & Castile soap.
This was one of our aims for last month, but we still have such a large stock of cleaning products to use up, we haven't needed to look into this just yet. When my dad passed away in November we brought back all the cleaning materials from his house and shop and we still have a cupboard full now. I have already purchased some castile soap, ready for when it's needed and I am looking for an eco-friendly soap dispenser to keep near our kitchen sink.
A few years ago, we started a little tradition of celebrating birthdays with a big foil number balloons. This photo is from Amys 4th birthday last April. She is 5 years old this April, and I want to find an eco-friendly way of celebrating. I wanted to make some colourful reusable garlands for the walls, then a big decorated number to celebrate her age. All made out of paper, card, or spare material rather than plastic.
A lot of our household waste for landfill comes in the form of stretch plastic that I didn't know could be recycled. This month I hope to find storage for these types of recycling and take to my nearest drop off point. TerraCycle has a drop-off point about 20 miles away, but I am hoping I might be able to approach some local organisations who would be happy to support a TerraCycle scheme in our local town. They recycle things such as pens, baby food pouches biscuit wrappers, and make a small donation can be made towards a school or charity in return (currently 1p per item for most things). It will be really interesting to see what difference this makes to the amount of waste we send to landfill!
I want to research a well-made, good quality foaming soap dispenser to keep near our kitchen sink. I want to replace our store bought handwash with a mixture of diluted castile soap. Castile soap is really versatile and much more environmentally friendly. I am hoping to use the same soap mixture for both washing-up liquid and handwash. Swapping should save us money, be safer and more environmentally friendly as well as reducing our recycling.
Are you planning any eco-friendly changes in March?
What are your February eco-friendly wins? I would love to hear! You can join in on social media using the hashtags #100smallactsofdefiance or #smallstepstosustainability or leave a comment below.
Hello. The website you mentioned is one that was recommended to me too, especially the Coconutty Soapnut Shampoo Bar – I linked to it in my shampoo bar post. We are at the same point, we have just used all our liquid shampoo, and have small amounts of conditioner, shower gel and bubble bath left to use up. I have seen some fab recipes for bubble bath alternatives, like bath salts, and a few people have recommended other things like oats to try. I would love to hear how you get on with the multi soaps. We took our solid shampoo to swimming lessons, and I thought it might be awkward for my four-year-old to use on her own in the shower, but she did a brilliant job – it has been a really good swap for us!
Oh gosh you could me me writing the first part of this post. Everything you say is exactly how I feel. Once you start on your journey to sustainability you realise how far you must consider and how hard (and expensive this can be). Never forget to look back and see how far you have travelled and what you have achieved – you are doing a fabulous job. As for that milk could you get just a few pints delivered in the glass bottles so you can slightly reduce the number of the plastic bottles – that was you won't have to spend out loads more but you are supporting the milkman which would help drive down the price of his milk if everyone did this.
Thank you for adding this thought provoking post to #GoingGreen and I look forward to reading your March steps when the next linky opens Easter Monday.
It's easy to lose track of progress and just look at the journey ahead, isn't it! I will definitely keep our progress in mind, thanks for the reminder. I think that's the best idea, id love use coconut milk too as a non-dairy substitute, and reduce the milk we do use! Its my pleasure, I love reading all the posts for ideas and inspiration.


The Friedrich Teßmann Library (LFT) decided to structure the Europeana Newspapers Information Day into two separate but contiguous events with different goals and targets.
The first event was held within the context of the South Tyrolean Day of Libraries scheduled on Saturday 25th of October. Main goal of the event was to highlight the interest of online digitised newspaper collections and to offer low-threshold information about interesting historic content on local and European level and how to search for it, structured in 5 activity stations. The event was open to everybody.
The second event was a Specialists' Meeting Day on Monday, 27th of October, aiming to bring together German, Austrian and Italian experts to outline the current state of the art of digitisation and illustrate different approaches in the European countries. The targeted audience was personnel in charge of digitisation within Libraries and Archives as well as any operator dealing with digitisation projects.
Within the Day of Libraries, LFT organized an event under the motto "Hot from the press – breakfast with historical newspapers", aiming to attract not only regular library users. The event was structured in 5 activity stations following the key principles of participation, action and entertainment. All stations were attended by a library staff member and could be visited in free order. At the information stand on a big screen, different Europeana information material like the Europeana Newspaper animation and Europeana Newspapers presentation slides has been shown in a loop. Every hour a project collaborator gave a short introduction to the main objectives and results of the project. At Station 2: Historic Newspapers to touch, original historic newspapers were displayed. White gloves were provided to point out the fragility of the material. A library staff member gave some rules for handling the originals and basic information about the exposed issues. On a tablet it was possible to browse the same newspaper issues by using the TEL browser. At Station 3 The European Library Work Station – not only local newspapers, the default setting on the library computers, which usually is the library's catalogue, was the European Library newspaper browser. Visitors were invited to browse the newspapers of different countries and to check out the different search options or to try the full text search by keywords. Being a Saturday morning, the visitors were offered a small breakfast at Station 4: Hot from the press I, a cup of coffee, a freshly pressed orange juice, croissants or a slice of "newspaper cake".
At Station 5: Hot from the press II, visitors had the opportunity to have their own picture printed on a historic newspaper front page, choosing from different samples. An instant picture taken of the visitor, completed by some "historical" props and costumes as hats, furs or feather boa, was placed on the chosen newspaper page, printed and handed out.
At the end of the Information Day, about 200 visitors were counted. Most of them were regular library users, but also a great number of "new" public attended the library and the response was more than positive.
At the specialists' Meeting day held on the 27 of October 2014, 9 experts from 4 countries (Germany, Austria, Italy, England) spoke about the complex topics related to the enhancement of digital newspaper collections, such as refinement techniques, semantic enrichment and research, visualisation of information and digital long-term preservation.
The day started with general information about the Europeana Newspapers project, provided by LFT director Johannes Andresen, who gave an overview of the project's partners, aims and objectives. Next on the agenda was key note speaker Dave Thompson from Wellcome Library, London, with a generic view about things to do (and to avoid) when starting a digitisation project. He talked about the importance of creating sustainable processes and the need to ensure that digitisation is considered as a fully inclusive end-to-end process.
He was followed by Günter Mühlberger from the University of Innsbruck, entering in the complex topic of Optical Character Recognition, which is a must for digital collections if we want to access, link or work with the content of historical newspapers. Mühlberger gave an overview on today's available software solutions and pointed out the need of post-processing of OCR results. He underlined the importance of structural recognition of newspapers, where new approaches beyond article separation are needed, i.e. the recognition of different content units, as obituaries, continued novels or advertising, as a source of unique content that cannot be found elsewhere.
This led to the next speaker, Michel Genereux form EURAC, Bolzano, who is actually working on the attempt to automate the procedures for correcting faulty OCR-ed text by use of computational linguistic methods.
Clemens Neudecker from Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin State Library) talked about the importance of Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Europeana Newspapers project great efforts to enhance the software for NER developed by Stanford University to make it suitable for a multilingual and library context.
The focus of the following speakers was all on Italy. Patrizia Rossi introduced the audience to the efforts made by CSI-Piemonte, the Information System Consortium to which Piedmont's Public Administration entrusts the management and implementation of its ICT services, in building a Digital archive of journalistic information. Heart piece of the Digital Archive is the Historic Archive of "La Stampa", a daily newspaper published without interruptions since 1867.
Andrea Bolioli from CELI, Torino, gave more tecnical insights about search functionalities, facets and visualisation of content, i.e. the creation of time graphs to visualize the frequency of a search term in a certain time period.
In the afternoon session, Maurizio Messina, director of Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice, gave an introduction to long term conservation of digital objects. He emphasized how preservation is an expensive and tricky thing to accomplish individually, that needs a centralized organisation with the help of e-Infrastructures including cloud and grid systems. Messina presented"Magazzini Digitali", the Italian legal deposit service for digital resources promoted by the Italian Ministery of Culture (MIBACT).
Messina was followed by Andrea Marchetti, researcher at the Italian National Research Council (CNR). His lecture was focused on visualisation methods and the way big data material can become more understandable using visual encoding as maps, graphs, timelines, word clouds, charts or infographics.
The Meeting Day ended with an outlook on the changing meaning of the idea of "collection" in the digital age and the future "hybrid library" given by Klaus Kempf from Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich. The most outstanding changes are the transition from the concept of ownership to the one of access, the growing importance of open access and a much more wider understanding of what collection means, including all sort of media, from print to electronic to online resources.
The experts' Meeting Day saw 110 registered participants from every sort of memory institution (with a small part of presence of digitisation service providers), taking a chance to learn more about the digitisation work flow that follows the scanning process. The goal to bring together experts from Italy and the German speaking neighbor countries has been fully successful.
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I missed this over the past weekend, but Erick Scarecrow and ESC-Toy released several new figures on Saturday.
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"Imagine if Apple and Starbucks had a healthy baby."
Let's face it. Life gets hectic. And fast food is convenient — and everywhere.
But sometimes a burger and fries won't cut it. Fitness enthusiasts who want to stick to a meal plan may find it difficult to snag some healthy food on the go without going to a sit-down restaurant or a large market. And dieters on a weight-loss regimen can find it challenging to locate goal-friendly choices on fast food menus.
Several companies in Des Moines are looking to change the way people buy and eat convenience foods that offer quick, calorie-friendly meals, including vegetarian and restricted-diet choices. These restaurants offer freshly made packaged meals that can be bought individually or in discounted packs.
"Eating healthy was not available and it was challenging for us," said Sam Vakhidor, CEO and co-founder of Eat Fit Go. "We created the concept for our needs to be better able to eat healthy on the go."
In the past five years, at least nine places offering "healthy fast food" have popped up in the Des Moines area. Food that is required for a balanced, nutritious diet — including unprocessed natural produce, lean protein, whole grains and healthy oils — is considered healthy.
When we think of fast food, we think of drive-thrus serving mass-produced meals that can be highly processed and calorie-laden — full of saturated fat, sugar and sodium. But these healthy options offer a new choice with a variety of purchasing options — drive-thru, dine-in, grab-and-go and home or office delivery.
And these restaurants differ from meal kit services like Blue Apron in that the meals are already prepared and ready to eat. Most meals can be heated quickly using a microwave oven or served cold.
On Thursday, at Fit Go opened its third location in the area in West Des Moines. The restaurant pre-packages meals daily. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and desserts are found in its refrigerated cases — the central focus of their spaces. Diners can purchase the packaged food and eat it in-store or take it to-go, and nutritional information and instructions for heating are printed on each container. Meal plans and house accounts are available for added convenience.
Over 50 dishes — like baked citrus salmon with asparagus and steak stir-fry over "rice" made from cauliflower — cost $8 to $9 per item, and most come in large and small sizes.
Vakhidor wanted the focus to be on the food and its clean simplicity, and they wanted their store design to follow that simplicity.
"If Apple and Starbucks had a healthy baby, then it would be Eat Fit Go," said Vakhidor, who helped open its first location in Omaha in February 2016. It already has 27 locations in six states with five more stores more on the way.
For Brandy Lueders of The Grateful Chef, it's always been about real, clean food that's made from scratch. She started small seven years ago, with her partner in life and in business, John Cornish, selling prepared meals for friends and family. Their company has bloomed with inventive weekly menus for a clientele of over 200 — and a new storefront in Sevastopol Station that opened in May.
This week, one of The Grateful Chef's specials is a bleu cheese and Brussels sprout risotto.
"We don't believe that healthy food has to be boring food," said Lueders. "Just really fun, creative fresh food."
For downtown, the Grateful Chef has the only grab-and-go case with not just individual portions, but dinners for two or four people.
Beef Cake Fuel in Waukee focuses on delivery. Owned by husband-and-wife team, Cassandra and Brad Rodish, it is the only delivery service in the metro area for healthy meal prep orders brought to your doorstep.
"We were just wanting to find the most convenient way to help people out," Cassandra Rodish said. "We just wanted to take all the guesswork out of it."
Beef Cake Fuel's rotating menu of meals made with seasonal, hand-selected ingredients can be mix-and-matched to create weekly meal plans. For now, customers order online or by phone, but the Rodishes hope to have a new storefront in Clocktower Square in September with a dining area for eat-in customers.
Some stores showcase a fully-equipped kitchen where food comes out hot and fresh and diners can enjoy their meals right in the store. Get Fit Grill in West Glen was created about 10 months ago. All of its dishes are 600 calories or less.
Delivery service is available within 30 miles and the restaurant will ship meal packages anywhere in the country. Get Fit Grill works with a range of diets and offers free consultation to create meal plans that work with individual fitness goals and lifestyles.
Frustrated by having to constantly ask locations for food modifications, Get Fit Grill was launched by twins Joanna Cosner and James Carper and their brother Michael Carper after eight years in the supplement business. Their friend and newest partner, Brett Wilkin, came on board a month ago.
Many competition bodybuilders, athletes, and fitness professionals rely on meal prep options that include "macro nutrients" — lean protein, complex carbohydrates and healthy oils and fats. Even though fast food restaurants are working to change their menus to offer more choices for healthy eaters, the increasing prevalence of healthy food restaurants is flourishing with modern grab-and-go facilities, quality ingredients and affordable prices.
Here's a list of nine healthy food stores in Des Moines and a map to help locate them.
This packaged healthy meal store has three locations in Des Moines and two in Odessa, Texas. A nutrition coach is on hand to help with your dietary needs. Breakfast, lunch and dinner options are available, as well as healthy snacks and desserts like chocolate almond energy balls (items from $2.49 to $12.99).
Hours: Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Hours: Monday through Thursday, 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday, 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Hours: Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
This locally owned health-focused restaurant offers diners meal prep choices for every dietary need. Each dish is less than 600 calories and is made with hand-selected meats and produce. Get Fit Grill meals can also be found in Fareway grocery stores. Check out the Salmon Pesto Sandwich with turkey bacon, lettuce and tomato on a gluten-free bun (items from $1.95 to $11.95).
Hours: Monday through Sunday, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
The only locally owned meal prep service that offers solely delivery, this Waukee-based healthy food option does require some advance planning with its weekly packs, but offers discounted plans and free delivery on all orders over $40. Fire grilled meats are also available by the pound. Try the Wood Fire Grilled Sirloin with mashed sweet potatoes and vegetable medley (items from $8.50 to $9.95).
Location: Delivery available throughout Des Moines with drop off points in Ankeny.
Hours: Monday through Sunday, 7 a.m. to midnight with arranged delivery.
Chef Brandy Lueders began offering her freshly prepared healthy meals in 2010 after working in kitchens in Oregon and Des Moines. And she recently opened her new location with her partner, John Cornish. The Grateful Chef can work with a wide range of dietary needs, and its grab-and-go location offers order-ahead service for pickup, along with assorted baked goods and gourmet coffees (items from $2 for baked goods to $18 for dinner for two or $32 for dinner for four).
Hours: Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Thursday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; closed Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays.
This fast-growing healthy food company is Omaha-based and offers over 50 choices for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and dessert. Meal plans and house accounts are also available. Check out the breakfast tacos made with ground turkey, egg whites and fresh salsa (items from $4.50 to $11.75).
Location: 833 E. First St.
Hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Hours: Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Hours: Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.


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Mission Generation Inc
Teaching Jesus in the Classroom
Norman, OK | www.missiongeneration.org
Our Vision is to give children, parents and teachers the tools they need to make quality life decisions based on a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and the leading of the Holy Spirit, allowing them to succeed in spirit, soul and body.
Notes from the nonprofit
Mission Generation loves children.
Rocky Malloy
Norman, OK 73070 USA
Fundraising Contact
Roxann Zeek
Fundraising contact phone: (832) 707-5563
3750 W. Main St. Suite AA
Legal name of organization: Mission Generation
Christian (X20)
The degradation of sociality because school age children K-12 are not being taught faith-based ethics and morals in public schools. The result of which is violence, crime, venereal disease, teen pregnancy, illiteracy, suicide, substance use, truancy, gang participation and other social ills.
Chaplains Program
In the past three decades, Mission Generation has developed a viable approach of reaching the largest unreached people group inside of the public schools around the world.
1) We actively target individuals in education by word of mouth in new districts and nations around the world. We invite them to participate in the online training programs. Thousands are responding and signing up for the programs
2) We equip and train teachers, counselors, parents, or church members through two 128-hour courses given online to qualify as school chaplains. Those who pass the courses and fulfill the requirements receive a Post Baccalaureate diploma that certifies them as spiritual school counselors or chaplains that is acknowledged by teacher unions, school boards, and other institutions.
3)Schools assign chaplains designated rooms for counseling and prayer to minister to students, school staff, and parents. The chaplains and counselors spread the word of God one on one as well as in group setting.
ECFA 2021
Download evaluation reports 2020 Victor Vargas-Consulting and Diagnosis.pdf 2019 2019 Mission Generation Financial Review
Number of clients participating in educational programs
Young adults, Children and youth, Families, Parents
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
This is a global number of people in discipleship: students, teachers, school officials, parents, and guardians.
Number of teachers recruited
Total number of teachers trained and or certified in the program
Number of family members participating in school activities
Total number of parents or guardians that attend school functions, participate in PTA meetings, students/teacher conferences, and or meet with the school counselors or chaplains.
Number of students participating in education programs
Adults, Children and youth
The number of students that use our textbooks or are taught from our text and the number of students ministered to by a school counselor or chaplain.
Mission Generation works through public education to win, disciple, and send PK-12th grade youth. The ministry goal is to have 100 million people in discipleship by 2025 by offering the school chaplain program in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
There is a massive lack of school counselors throughout public schools worldwide. The strategy is for Mission Generation to fill this void with certified spiritual school counselors and chaplains. Teacher unions and school boards recognize spiritual school counselors/chaplains, allowing chaplains to have designated rooms for counseling and praying with the students and parents. School chaplains also have the opportunity to share God's word at school assemblies. In addition, teachers certified as chaplains receive increased pay and qualify for administrative promotions.
Mission Generation has a world-class team of writers, editors, programmers, designers, illustrators, photographers, videographers, computer engineers, accounts, managers, and ministers creating and managing accredited training programs that certify teachers and parents as spiritual school counselors and chaplains.
The ministry has a long track record of success. It is in good standing with the BBB, GuideStar, Evangelical Council of Financial Accountability (ECFA), Charity Navigator, Excellence in Giving, and Fidelity Charitable. It is governed by a diverse group of engaged board members and advised by education professionals, all of which indicate a high level of transparency and accountability.
Mission Generation tracks six variables to evaluate progress:
1. Number of people enrolled in online spiritual school counselor and chaplain courses.
2. Number and percentage of graduates from online courses.
3. Number of spiritual school counselors and chaplains placed in schools.
4. The total number of schools by country served by spiritual school counselors and chaplains.
5. The average number of students, teachers, and parents serviced by each spiritual school counselor or chaplain.
6. Anecdotal outcomes in school districts traced to the chaplain program, primarily the increase in high school graduations and the reduction of school dropouts, teen pregnancies, and suicides.
17,206 spiritual school counselors and chaplains
14,283 schools in the program
12,857,602 people in discipleship
Graduations rates up 45%
Post-secondary education up 300%
Parents participation up 500%
Grades PK-12 - up to one letter grade
Dropouts down by up to 37%
Teen pregnancies down by up to 80%
Teen suicide down to zero for all schools in the program two years or more
Truancy declined by up to 20%
Social Impact explanation
In Latin America, there are few baseline indicators. Poor school records make it even more difficult to obtain proof-based evidence. Social impact is therefore based primarily on anecdotal evidence. As such, not every item has a percentage. The percentages that are given are an average across several countries.
One noticeable observation is the overall health and improvement of a community when the school program is adopted across an entire school district. When all the students in an area are involved in the program, it reduces the negative components and peer pressure, elevating everyone.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here's how this organization is listening.
done We shared information about our current feedback practices.
Who are the people you serve with your mission?
Mission Generation serves English, Spanish, and Portuguese-speaking people around the world. Mission Generation provides accredited post-grad education to teachers and school administrators, at no cost, which allows them to be certified as school counselors and chaplains. Graduates serve PK-12 students in public, private, and charter schools.
How is your organization collecting feedback from the people you serve?
SMS text surveys, Electronic surveys (by email, tablet, etc.), Paper surveys, Focus groups or interviews (by phone or in person), Community meetings/Town halls,
How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals,
What significant change resulted from feedback?
The program began by providing what we believed was important to parents. Feedback taught us that we were not providing desired content. When content changes were made based on diverse racial groups and ages implementation dramticly increased which dramatically increase positive outcomes.
With whom is the organization sharing feedback?
The people we serve, Our staff, Our board, Our funders, Our community partners,
How has asking for feedback from the people you serve changed your relationship?
witnessing content changes based on feedback directly impacted confidence and participation.
Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people's interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded,
What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, The people we serve tell us they find data collection burdensome, It is difficult to get honest feedback from the people we serve, It is difficult to identify actionable feedback,
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We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
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November 2 in Bryant athletic history: 2011
November 2, 2020 Archives, Football
Freshmen Hornets complete perfect season with rout of Benton
Photos by Rick Nation and Kevin Nagle
In 2007, the Bryant Hornets freshman football team tied the Searcy Lion Cubs to open the[more] season — or rather, the Lions Cubs tied them. The Hornets proceeded to run the table for a 9-0-1 season. It figured to be hard to beat as the best freshman season in the history of the program.
But, here in 2011, it's been done. With a 35-0 win over the rival Benton Panthers on Tuesday night, the current Bryant freshman squad surpassed that landmark season with a 10-0 campaign.
"You never know when you go in but that's an expectation that you've got to set, right?," pondered Hornets head coach Kenny Horn. "We set the expectation level that high and the kids followed suit. They're the ones that rallied around it. They embraced it and, truthfully, it was their goal too. We made it a goal and we talked about it and they did it.
"As I've said before, our goal is to get these kids ready to play on Friday night and, if we can win games along the way, then that's good," he added. "And that (winning) is important too because it teaches these guys to be winners. For your program to be successful from top to bottom, you've got to have winners. We try to stress that and we've been fortunate over the last few years that we've been pretty successful."
In the 30th meeting between the two freshman programs, Bryant won its eighth in a row to achieve the milestone.
Quarterback Brandan Warner threw for four touchdown passes for the second game in a row, giving him 24 for the season. He was 10 for 17 for 187 yards. Two of the scoring strikes went to K.J. Hill, another to Brushawn Hunter and the fourth to Mitchell Reeves. In addition, running back Mar'Kevius Nelson rushed for 139 yards on just 10 carries including an 86-yard touchdown bolt midway through the second quarter that broke up a scoreless game.
Meanwhile, the Hornets' defense allowed Benton just 18 yards of offense in the first half, without a first down. The Panthers' initial first down came with just over three minutes left in the third quarter. They would finish with just 54 yards of total offense with half of that coming on the final possession of the night when the Hornets' coaches (Horn with assistants Kirk Bock, Elliott Jacobs and John Orr) were working in reserves.
All five of Benton's first-half possessions were three-and-out, plus the first in the second half.
That proved particularly important early, since the Hornets turned the ball over three times. In fact, Bryant's first two possessions ended with interceptions. The first came after the Hornets drove from their own 34 to the Benton 11. '
Their first play from scrimmage was the old hook-and-ladder with Hill grabbing a short pass from Warner and lateraling back to Nelson who was trailing the play. It picked up 26 yards. Hill would catch an 8-yard throw then Nelson broke and 11-yard run to the 11.
But, on first down, Warner was sacked by Tim Dezort at the 20. On the next play, Stone Paul made a pick and returned to near midfield.
But Benton's first play was a 4-yard loss as Ben Bruick raced up to drop running back Chase Shamlin and, moments later, the Panthers were punting.
In turn, the Hornets' third-down play resulted in another interception, this time by Sam Baker.
Again, however, the Panthers' offense was squelched. On a second-down play, Brandan Young, Matt Shiew and Rashaan Jones dropped Shamlin for a loss. On third down, Young almost made an interception.
Shamlin then punted the Hornets back to their own 4. From there, they needed a 13-yard run by Hunter on third down to manage a first down. Then, on the very next snap, Nelson broke loose and headed down the left sideline, for the game's first score.
Alex Denker added the first of his five successful extra points.
Thanks in large part to a tackle for a loss by Kyle Lovelace and Jones on Benton quarterback Nick Quinn, Bryant forced another three-and-out. A short punt had the Hornets' offense setting up shop at its own 49. On first down there, Warner fired to Hill who broke it big for a 51-yard touchdown with 2:25 left in the half.
Two snaps, two touchdowns of over 50 yards each.
Using their timeouts, the Hornets forced Benton to punt again with 1:21 to play. A booming kick by Shamlin with a favorable roll pinned the Hornets back. An illegal block in the back pushed them back even further to their own 19 with 1:08 left in the half and one timeout.
Bryant quickly got into scoring position when Steven Murdock hauled in a Warner toss that he turned into a 35-yard gain, then Hunter broke a 38-yard run to the Benton 8.
Hunter got four more yards on the next play. Bryant called a timeout but, after the Panthers were cited for being in the neutral zone, Warner tried to keep only to have the Benton defense descend upon him for a loss back to the 5.
With no timeouts and only one down left, the Hornets quickly lined up and Warner fired a strike to Hill for a TD with :00.9 showing on the clock. Denker booted it to 21-0 and all that was left of the first half was a kickoff and short return.
The two teams traded punts to start the second half. Benton got a break with 3:29 left in the third quarter when it recovered a fumble at the Bryant 34. Shamlin slashed 13 yards to the 21, picking up his team's first first down. On the next play, however, he ran into Jones who stopped him for a loss.
Ty Harris knocked down a pass in the end zone. On third down, Quinn, with Lovelace bearing down on him, threw short on an attempted screen pass to set up a fourth-and-11 at the Bryant 21.
Quinn completed a pass to Colby Johnson but a sure tackle by Bruick kept him from getting to the sticks and the Hornets took over on downs.
They quickly added to their lead. Warner hit Hunter for 24 yards to get them out of the hole they were in at their own 11. Nelson then sprinted for 11 yards to the Benton 37.
On second down, Warner tried to throw a swing pass but, in traffic, Nelson couldn't hang on. Initially, there was no obvious signal and Bryant lineman Caleb Chaffin alertly scrambled to cover the loose ball. But the play was ruled a forward pass so the Hornets held possession at their 37 instead of back somewhere inside the 25.
Still, facing a third-and-10, Warner scrambled for 16 yards and, on the very next snap, Hunter broke free down the middle, caught Warner's pass and sprinted to the corner for a touchdown, making it 28-0.
On Benton's next play, Bruick came up to blast Paul, the ball came loose and Drew Tipton scooped it up and raced to the 7. After Houston Chavis ran twice for a net of no gain, Warner threw one more pass, hitting Reeves deep in the end zone on the left side for the 6. Denker made it 7 and with 5:22 left, the final score was on the board.
In a last-ditch effort to break the goose egg, the Panthers drove to midfield. On a fourth-and-5 with time running out, Paul took a handoff and, needing 5 yards, was stopped after 3 by Lucas Reitenger and Jordan McDonald to seal the victory.
Horn got the water-barrel dunking as the game neared its end, as the team celebrated their unbeaten season.
Looking at the team's future prospects, the coach said, "There's maybe a few spots that you could fill later on because you don't know how much these kids are going to grow between now and then but I tell you what, there's some kids out here that are once-in-every-15-year kids. They're unbelievable. They overcame some coaching and pulled out 10 wins. We're happy."
BRYANT 35, BENTON 0
Score by quarters
Benton 0 0 0 0 — 0
BRYANT 0 21 0 14 — 35
BRYANT — Nelson 86 run (Denker kick), 4:35
BRYANT — Hill 51 pass from Warner (Denker kick), 2:25
BRYANT — Hill 5 pass from Warner (Denker kick), :00.9
BRYANT — Hunter 21 pass from Warner (Denker kick), 7:23
BRYANT — Reeves 7 pass from Warner (Denker kick), 5:22
Benton Bryant
Rushes-yds 23-39 19-197
Passing-yds 15 187
Passing 2-8-0 10-17-2
Punts-avg. 0-00.0 1-19.0
Fumbles-lost 1-1 1-1
Penalties-blbd 6-32 2-7
Rushing: BRYANT, Nelson 10-139, Hunter 3-55, Warner 3-4, Chavis 3-(-1); BENTON, Shamlin 10-26, Paul 7-17, Davis 2-6, Quinn 3-4, Storment 1-(-2).
Passing (C-A-I-Y): BRYANT, Warner 10-17-2-187; BENTON, Quinn 2-8-0-15.
Receiving: BRYANT, Hill 5-71, Hunter 3-46, Murdock 1-35, Reeves 1-7, Nelson 0-18; BENTON, Johnson 2-15.


Objective. Pulmonary endothelial dysfunction and increased reflection of pulmonary pressure waves have been reported in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). However, the systemic vascular involvement is not fully understood. Our study focused on the systemic arterial stiffness and endothelial involvement in idiopathic and scleroderma associated PAH.
Methods. Peripheral arterial stiffness and endothelial function were evaluated in 38 patients with idiopathic (n = 28) and scleroderma associated (n = 10) PAH, and 21 control subjects (13 healthy; 8 with scleroderma and normal pulmonary pressure). All participants underwent clinical and cardiopulmonary evaluation. Arterial stiffness was measured through the fingertip tonometry derived augmentation index (AI), which is the boost increase in the late systolic pressure wave after the initial systolic shoulder. Endothelial function was measured by forearm blood flow dilatation response to brachial artery occlusion by a noninvasive plethysmograph (EndoPAT 2000), which is associated with nitric oxide-dependent vasodilatation and yields a peripheral arterial tone (PAT) ratio.
Results. Mean systolic pulmonary pressure was 70.5 ± 21.6 mm Hg (idiopathic-PAH) and 69.3 ± 20 mm Hg (scleroderma-PAH). AI was higher in scleroderma patients (10.5% ± 19.6% in healthy controls, 9.0% ± 21.5% in idiopathic-PAH, 20.1% ± 19.1% in scleroderma-PAH, and 24.4% ± 18.9% in scleroderma-controls; nonsignificant). PAT ratio was significantly lower (p < 0.05) than control values in idiopathic-PAH and scleroderma-PAH (PAT ratio: control 2.20 ± 0.25; idiopathic 1.84 ± 0.51; scleroderma 1.66 ± 0.66). AI was not correlated to endothelial dysfunction. There were no differences between the 2 PAH patient groups in age, body mass index, New York Heart Association classification, or 6-min walk test.
Conclusion. Our study shows a trend towards increased arterial stiffness in scleroderma (nonsignificant), and also peripheral endothelial dysfunction in idiopathic-PAH and in scleroderma-PAH. These findings suggest involvement of different vessels in scleroderma-PAH compared to idiopathic-PAH.
Accepted for publication December 30, 2008.


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HOBOKEN, N.J. — NICE (Nasdaq: NICE) today announced that it has published the results of a special Digital Evidence Management benchmark study conducted jointly with CoPaCC, an organization dedicated to police governance issues. The "Digital Evidence Management: User Perspectives Benchmark Report" confirms that collection, conversion and sharing of digital evidence are the top three challenges forces face in managing growing volumes of digital evidence.
The study, part of a broader CoPaCC National Police ICT user survey, solicited the views of thousands of police executives and officers from England, Wales and Scotland, with the support of the Police Federation of England & Wales, the Police Superintendents' Association and the Association of Scottish Police Superintendents. Nearly 4,000 polices officers and staff across all UK police forces were asked about their digital evidence management challenges, how they're coping, and plans for the future. The survey surfaced many common themes and concerns, along with detailed first-hand accounts of the day-to-day challenges investigators are encountering.
Chris Wooten, Executive Vice President, NICE, said, "As digital evidence continues to grow at a rapid pace, it's creating a perfect storm. Mounting digital evidence is on a collision course with outdated technology and decades-old investigative processes, and police forces are reaching a breaking point. Due to lack of effective digital evidence management solutions, investigators are still stuck in a low-tech world where evidence collection, viewing of CCTV, and digital evidence analysis and sharing continue to be mostly manual inefficient processes. NICE developed NICE Investigate as an answer to these problems. NICE Investigate can transform how departments manage investigations and digital evidence, and make investigators more efficient and effective crime-solvers."
To download the complete Digital Evidence Management: User Perspective's Benchmark Report, visit https://info.nice.com/Policing-Insight-DEM-Report.html.
Police executives in the UK can also learn more by attending NICE's Transformational Policing Summit on March 19, 2019 at the Chelsea Football Club in London. To register for this event, visit https://info.nice.com/transformational-policing-summit-london-2019.html.
Running on the Microsoft Azure cloud, NICE Investigate is a comprehensive, secure, cloud-based solution for managing investigations and digital evidence. It automates digital evidence collection, analysis and sharing to enhance case solvability. NICE Investigate earned Frost & Sullivan's Technology Leadership Award for Investigation and Evidence Management Solutions, and was named Best Investigation solution in American Security Today's'ASTORS' Awards two times. For more information on NICE Investigate visit www.nice.com/Investigate.


Almost everyone has a great camera in their pocket all the time now. Iphones and Android Phones both have incredibly capable cameras that are better than point and shoots from just a few years ago. This creates a problem for most people. The cameras are so easy to use and take such good photos that we all have thousands of images just sitting there on our phones. Remember that day at the zoo from 6 months ago, or the family road trip last year? After a little scrolling those can be found somewhat easily, but what about the day a year ago you want to find one specific photo from? That is when it gets much more difficult. I am going to be doing a series of posts on what has now become my favorite app/online service that can help solve these problems, Google Photos.
This first post is just going to be a quick overview of the service and how to set it up. The next few weeks I will have posts on all the main aspects of the app including assistant, photos, albums, sharing, and photo books. The app can be downloaded on the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store.
This is the first screen you will see after downloading the app. You will want backup & sync selected so all your photos on your device will get backed up. The next two options are up to you and can be changed by clicking Change settings. Upload size you can select high quality or original. With high quality google will resize your photos and video but gives you unlimited storage. If you choose original you will get the files backed up as the original size you took them. Everything you upload will count against your 15GB of google storage on your account. More space can be purchased ($1.99 100GB or $9.99 1TB). For most people I believe that high quality will be good enough. The second option is to upload over Wi-Fi only or to use cellular data. I have an unlimited data plan through T-Mobile so I want my photographs backed up as soon as possible and use cellular data. If you have a cell phone plan with limited data and take a lot of photos you may want to leave it on Wi-Fi only. Next you need to login and select your google account. Then click done.
Google photos will then start backing up all the photos on your device. It will say Backup complete when they are all backed up. For this series of blog posts I uploaded about 75 photos from the past year.
Now that you have gotten the app set up on your device and finally have a backup of all those irreplaceable photos of your dog and the meal you ate last night and maybe a few of your friends and family mixed in there somewhere I am going to show you all the great things you can do with Google Photos. We will have a post on assistant, photos, albums, and sharing coming in the next few weeks.


Good self-esteem can help tweens and teens try new things, be more likely to help and encourage others, take healthy risks and solve problems. It provides a strong foundation for making good decisions, and not being held back by fear or giving into peer pressure. Strong self-confidence can also help teens better face changes; such as, going to a new school, meeting new friends, starting a new part-time job and moving to a new location. Ultimately, a self-confident teen is often a happier teen. That's why it's important to address when your teen doesn't have good self-esteem.
It's not uncommon for a child's self-confidence to waver, especially during puberty or when starting a new school. There are also other factors that can lead to low self-esteem.
When left unaddressed or if low self-esteem becomes chronic, it can lead to other problems.
Bullying (either being a victim or bullying others). Bullies often target individuals who lack confidence. By the same token, bullies also commonly have low self-esteem, which is what leads to the bullying.
As you may have noticed, the causes, signs and effects of your teen's low self-esteem are all closely related. For example, bullying can cause low self-esteem, but it can also be an effect of low self-esteem. The same goes for poor academic performance. It can cause low self-esteem, but lack of self-confidence can also result in a further decline in grades if the issue is not addressed.
For parents who ask how they can help their child increase their self-esteem, I recommend using a framework that I use in my therapy practice called The Empowerment Space and have detailed in The Empowered Child book. I call it "The Three E's", and the E's stand for empathy, empowerment and engagement.
Empowerment means helping your child have the confidence he or she needs to make their voice heard. You can empower your child by asking what things she thinks she can do to start feeling better about herself. Encourage your child to share her own thoughts or opinions, and provide guidance and encouragement as your child creates a plan for resolution. Ask questions such as, "I noticed that you really seem to like reading. Would you be interested in joining a book club so that you can meet kids that share the same interest?" or "Would you like to ask your new friend to do something after school so that you can get to know her better?" After your child has created and shared his plan for moving forward, encourage your child to practice carrying it out through role play.
Showing empathy, empowering your child to take steps to change the situation, and engaging with your child are great ways to help her increase self-esteem. If your child's self-esteem does not improve or leads to other issues, it is important to seek professional help to address.
The Empowered Child book, available on Amazon, provides more information on using empathy, empowerment and engagement to help your child heal from bullying or other issues.
For children who have been bullied, The Empowerment Space program provides a safe space with support, guidance and education to empower bullying victims to heal, address conflict and move forward.
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Enjoyable but not as much as it should have been.
In the previous DC animated film, The Death of Superman, the Man of Steel met his demise at the hands of the powerful Doomsday. It's been six months since the loss of our hero and four new superheroes have risen to take his place. Superboy (Cameron Monaghan) is a teenage clone more interested in girls and media attention than crime fighting, and who happens to be created by Superman's (Jerry O'Connell) arch enemy, Lex Luthor (Rainn Wilson). Steel (Cress Williams) is a man made of metal with a giant war hammer as a weapon. But is he a robot, a man in a suit of armor, or something completely different? The Eradicator (Charles Halford) looks and sounds exactly like the original except that he wears a yellow visor and desires to literally eradicate every criminal he comes across. And finally, Cyborg Superman (Patrick Fabian), a half-man, half-machine version who seems to embody his noble spirit and great compassion and empathy for the people of Earth.
While most of the people believe that one of them is the real Superman or a possible reincarnation, Lois Lane (Rebecca Romijn) is looking to discover the truth and to find out where his missing body is located. As Lois searches for her answers, Lex Luthor is using Superboy to promote his own agenda and make himself look like a hero for creating the clone. But his plan backfires as Superboy is not easy to control. During a joint mission with the Justice League to guard the President, which should be a simple and mostly a promotional job, things go seriously wrong. Not only does the entire Justice League go missing, Cyborg Superman shows up to save the day. Having been rescued, the President and most of the viewing world declare Cyber Superman the heir apparent.
Having finally chosen a new hero to carry on the Superman mantel, Cyborg Superman begins recruiting for the Cybercorp. This new organization is to be made up of regular humans fitted with cybernetic implants in order to give them super powers so that they can replace the missing Justice League members and protect the planet. It seems like a good idea at first, but things begin to take a sinister turn when the new recruits do not appear to have a mind of their own. It will ultimately come down to Lois and her superior sleuthing skills to get to the bottom of the story and find out what really happened to the original hero so that once again the world can be saved from ultimate destruction.
The Blu-ray is presented in 1080p High Definition 16x9 1.78:1 DTS-HD video with an English 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio track. The picture was bright and clear with a good, immersive surround sound.
"Lex Luthor The Greatest Nemesis" focused on Superman's biggest arch nemesis and the motivations behind his hatred for the Man of Steel. "From the DC Comics Vault" are two episodes from previous animated releases. Superman: The Animated Series: "Heavy Metal" featuring the villain Metallo and Justice League Unlimited: "Panic In The Sky" where Amanda Waller calls for an attack on the Justice League.
The premise of the story was interesting and had lots of potential. The problem was that there was so much story and so many new characters being added to the mix that everything felt rushed. By the time you learned the differences between the supermen, the film was over. While The Death of Superman and Reign of the Supermen was a two-part film, it would have been better as a trilogy, giving the audience time to digest all the intricacies and nuances of the individual characters. It was still enjoyable, but not as much as it should have been.


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Inspirational Quotes by Leon Trotsky (Russian Revolutionary)
Leon Trotsky (1879–1940,) alias of Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Jewish agitator, journalist, and Marxist revolutionary. He was a principal leader in the founding of the Soviet Union. Following the death of Lenin, Trotsky fell out with Stalin, exiled, and erased from Soviet accounts of the civil war and the formation of the Red Army.
Born in Yelisavetgrad (now Kropyvnytskyi in Ukraine,) the son of a farmer, Trotsky was educated at a local Jewish school before attending schools in Odessa and Nikolaev. A Marxist revolutionary from 1897, he headed the workers' soviet (revolutionary council) in St Petersburg in the Russian Revolution of 1905. He played a significant role in Russia's October Revolution in 1917, which brought the Bolsheviks to power. As later commissar of foreign affairs and war in the Soviet Union (1917–24,) he organized the Red Army and defeated the White Russian forces in the Russian Civil War.
In the struggle for power following Vladimir Lenin's death in 1924, Joseph Stalin emerged as the eventual victor. Even though Lenin, in his last testament, favored Trotsky over Stalin and even had recommended removing Stalin from power, Trotsky proved no match for Stalin. Stalin not only controlled a variety of organizations but also cleverly appealed to the class interest of the new bureaucratic elite. He firmly asserted his claim to Lenin's mantle at his funeral, which Trotsky did not bother to attend.
Trotsky was removed from all positions of power, expelled from the party in 1927, and exiled in 1929. He remained the leader of an anti-Stalinist opposition. After settling in Mexico in 1937, he was murdered three years later by a Stalinist agent.
Trotsky was a diligent worker, a stirring public speaker, a messianic visionary, and a decisive administrator, but he was a successful leader of men. Despite his intellectual brilliance, he subordinated himself to Lenin's leadership in 1917 and fatally compromised his political future. Historians contemplate how the Soviet establishment and its political and socio-economic policies would have been substantially different if Trotsky had succeeded Lenin.
Trotsky's publications include History of the Russian Revolution (1932,) The Revolution Betrayed (1937,) Stalin (1948,) and Diary in Exile (1935.) Trotsky remains influential in Western Marxist circles.
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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
Topics: Power
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
Topics: Corruption
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
Topics: Learning
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.
Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
Topics: Violence
Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
Topics: Ideas
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
Topics: Talent
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
Topics: Revolution
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
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In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a "dictator" substitutes himself for the central committee.
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Standard Rheumatoid Arthritis Therapy as Good as Costlier Newcomer: Study: MedlinePlus
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Standard Rheumatoid Arthritis Therapy as Good as Costlier Newcomer: Study
Biologic drug Enbrel wasn't better for patients who didn't respond to methotrexate alone
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TUESDAY, June 11 (HealthDay News) -- Newer, costlier treatment for rheumatoid arthritis appears no better than an older, less-expensive regimen for people who don't respond to the first-line drug methotrexate, a new study suggests.
"Newer isn't always better," said researcher Dr. Ted Mikuls, an associate professor in the rheumatology division at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, in Omaha. "Some of the older medications can be effective."
Rheumatoid arthritis causes inflammation in the joints, resulting in swelling, stiffness, pain and reduced joint function. It can also affect other parts of the body.
"We compared two different ways of treating rheumatoid arthritis -- one that included a new biologic [medication] with an older, more conventional oral medication," Mikuls explained. "We basically showed that at the end of the day patients, regardless of what they got, looked very similar in terms of pretty much every outcome we looked at in the study."
Patients whose arthritis didn't respond to methotrexate alone who were then given a combination of methotrexate, sulfasalazine (Azulfidine) and hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil) did as well as patients given methotrexate and the new biologic drug etanercept (Enbrel) -- which is given by injection -- the researchers said.
"The treatments are very different in terms of costs," Mikuls said. If a patient had to pay out of pocket for etanercept it could cost around $20,000 a year, while the out-of-pocket costs for the other drugs is a few hundred to a few thousand dollars, he said.
The out-of-pocket cost of etanercept varies by insurance provider, including those covering the Medicare drug benefit program, Mikuls added.
The report was published online June 11 in the New England Journal of Medicine to coincide with presentation of the study at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology meeting in Madrid, Spain.
"This study addresses a real-life scenario for rheumatologists where patients are often on methotrexate and are not doing well and the question is what to do next," said Dr. Soumya Reddy, an assistant professor in the rheumatology division of the dermatology department at NYU Langone Medical Center, in New York City.
About 20 percent to 40 percent of patients don't respond methotrexate or can't take the drug either because of side effects or it is not indicated for them, said Reddy, who was not involved in the study.
The findings are "reassuring," in that when a biologic is not an option, due to cost or other reasons, the older regimen is effective, she said.
Which regimen is best really needs to be tailored to each patient, Reddy said.
For the study, researchers randomly assigned 353 patients to methotrexate, sulfasalazine and hydroxychloroquine or to methotrexate and etanercept for 48 weeks. Some patients switched from one regimen to another midway through the study.
The researchers found that both groups improved significantly, with no difference between the two treatments.
In addition, improvements in both groups were similar with regard to pain, quality of life, progression of their arthritis as seen on X-rays or side effects of the drugs.
For her part, Dr. Diane Horowitz, a rheumatologist at North Shore University Hospital, in Manhasset, N.Y., said the trial wasn't long enough to really tell if treatment with etanercept is equal to the three-drug regimen.
"In other studies, people on biologics did better over the long term," said Horowitz, who is also with the LIJ Medical Center, in New Hyde Park, N.Y. "I want to see more long-term data."
For patients who don't do well on methotrexate alone "there is some significant evidence that doing methotrexate plus sulfasalazine plus hydroxychloroquine [gives] a good response, and you don't always have to jump to a biologic right away," she said.
SOURCES: Ted Mikuls, M.D., associate professor, rheumatology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha; Diane Horowitz, M.D., rheumatologist, North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, N.Y., and Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, N.Y.; Soumya Reddy, M.D., assistant professor, rheumatology division, department of dermatology, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York City; June 11, 2013, presentation, Annual European Congress of Rheumatology meeting, Madrid, Spain; June 11, 2013, New England Journal of Medicine, online
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Q: Constructing a graph path using a best first strategy I want my program to construct a path using a best first(greedy) strategy (i.e the next point picked to be in the path will be the one closest to the current point), from a given list of lists of distances, where distances[i][j] is the distance between point i to point j.
I have an issue in a fragment of my code which is responsible for finding the lowest dist:
        for i in range(len(pointsLeft) - 1):
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                lowDist = distances[lastPoint][i]
                nextDist = distances[lastPoint][i + 1]
                if nextDist < lowDist:
                    lowDist = nextDist

I noticed that for the first few loops the code works correctly, but then it finds the wrong min value.

A: You have to reinitialize lowDist to an arbitrarily high value or else you might preserve former values of lowDist that you don't want. Furthermore, you check only nodes labeled from [0, len(pointsLeft)-1), rather than the specific nodes remaining, and instead you want something like
lowDist = 100000000  # just set this value to anything greater than all the edges
for i in pointsLeft:
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     if nextDist < lowDist:
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Which checks all and only the nodes in pointsLeft. Also notice that any node in pointsLeft will automatically not already be in the path, so you don't need to check that separately.

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