"That is beautiful and we love you for that" said the grass.
"That is earthly abundance indeed" said the sky.
The little human who overheard them talking joined in.
Mother Earth said nothing. She just kept sending her love up through the grass straws, to anyone who wanted it.
Eric was not like the other children. His head was really big and his legs extremely short. His back was a bit crooked.
He was a little boy with the sunlight in his eyes. His loving parents worried that life would be hard for their son, since he looked so different.
Eric didn't feel different than the other kids, but already some of his classmates had started calling him elephant boy when the teacher wasn't around. He didn't understand why, but decided to find out.
He asked his parents to take him to the zoo so he could visit the elephants. Once there, Eric was mesmerized by the giants. He could only just peek into the elephant garden, as usual he was too short to see things properly.
Eric spotted a baby amongst the adult elephants. It looked sad. Wasn't playing. Hung with its head and trunk and looked around nervously. Eric was wondering why the little one looked sad and the minute he thought it, the baby elephant came stumbling over.
– Hi little elephant. Are you ok? You look like you're sad.
The little one looked at Eric with the most beautiful eyes he had ever seen.
– I can't remember things. You know, elephants are supposed to be able to remember EVERYTHING. But I can't even remember the way down to the swimming hole. I'm worried I will never become a real elephant.
– But you look like a real elephant.
– Well, it's a problem on the inside. And you are not a real elephant if you can't remember stuff.
– Pretty much. It's the way it has always been.
– Well you look like a beautiful elephant to me. You're kind and you can talk to me so that seems really special to me.
A tear fell from the little one's eye.
– I think it's easier for you, you are a prefect little human boy, so I think it might be hard for you to understand.
Eric took in what his new friend had just said. Something important shifted in his heart.
– You know…I don't know much, but I know this…I think we should meet every week and just hang out and talk, like now. I think there might be something magic about hanging out together. And it would be so much fun.
– You don't care about me not remembering stuff?
– Do you care about me being short?
– You humans are all short.
Eric reached through the bars to pat little elephant on his soft trunk.
– I just know we will be good friends.
And for all the thirty-seven years that Eric lived, they were. They were the best of friends and they taught their families a lot about elephants and boys.
Once upon a time in the mountains of a warm and sunny country, a Starling was busy harvesting the red berries he loved so much.
He had already picked seven of them from the tree and now he wanted to bring them to his nest. He flew away with one but then heard a sound behind him and immediately returned. He didn't want anyone else to eat his berries.
He was wondering how to do this. Could he put all seven berries in his beak? He tried but could not fit more than three. He tried to grasp all seven berries with his feet but succeeded only with four and then accidentally squashed one.
Now, if you know anything about Starlings, you know that they move as one body, even in flocks of hundreds. They are like dancing clouds of dust, they bounce and swirl as if they are one with the mystic heart of everything.
Starling asked his friends to help him. They came in hundreds and they all brought one berry straight from the tree to their brother's nest. It overflowed with red berries. Under it grew a shiny red hill of deliciousness.
When seeing all the abundance and the flowing movement of his own kin, Starling woke up.
He did not need to struggle and sit on more berries than he could eat in a day.
He asked his friends to all enjoy the berries they themselves had brought.
Then he set off to dance with the wind together with his flock.
The night brings truth, wrapped up in ugly looking wrapping paper of fear and resentment. Everything that is not authentic has rough edges that are not softened by daylight or conventions.
Would it not be better to leave this mess and allow myself to fly freely, to live the love I know, unburdened by other people's doubt and fear?
– Are you really listening to me?
Once I really hear his message and sense my being forming a YES, he stops singing.
He is the reminder that magic is forever present. That love wants to become form.
That fear wants to be unwrapped.
Love wants to be wrapped. In intentions, words and actions.
Her long, slender branches had finally grown back.
She had been trimmed down to the point of being just a naked trunk, awkward and ugly, but now the long swaying vines made her beautiful again.
People who came to sit down at the shore could catch her shade and be soothed by her long billowing hair.
The gardener who trimmed her down every fourth year was loving but strict. He knew that we all need that sometimes. To be stripped of too long, thick, hardening branches. To be naked for a while. Dwell inside and save up spring energy and then explode in streams of new life and stories.
Luisa was down at the shore today, sitting on one of the thick, calcified roots, her bones aching but not so much as you would expect from someone who was way over seventy. She was thinking about the small things, like what to cook for dinner and when her grandchildren would come by, but also about the big things, like how to live a full, sparkling life even when your hair is white and the animal of your body slows down.
She remembered something her grandmother Alicia had told her once about the trees.
Luisa turned her stiff back and knocked on the trunk of the Willow tree she loved so much. Her voice was sandy and hoarse when she put words on her ponderings.
She listened but heard nothing. Just the water and playing children somewhere close. She patted the bark anyway, thanked the tree for shadow and beauty and got up to do her daily errands.
When she walked up to the road she ran into the gardener who was busy, as always, with the soil and leaves and blossoms.
– She is a beauty, isn't she? He smiled and nodded in the direction of the Willow.
– It's the best place to sit in the whole village.
– You know, some people get mad when I prune the trees. It looks awful for a while, that is true for sure. But if you don't do that, they grow out of control and the branches become too heavy for the trunk. You really need to help those trees by trimming away the old and make room for the new.
He was talking even though she hadn't asked anything and he didn't seem to wait for a reaction from her. He was still muttering when he walked back to his little truck.
The gardener brought the answer to her question.
Luisa went home that day and cleared out all of her closet and the spair rooms.
Then she welcomed the awkward emptiness, keeping the long, slender, light green branches of the Willow in mind.
Fabian walked in the woods every morning, just before sunrise.
His grandmother's little house was just at the foot of the mountain and miles of woods lay between them and their closest neighbours.
He followed the rim of the mountain. The birds sang as if they knew that the first sunrays need to be sung into this realm, otherwise it will remain dark.
This morning another sound broke through the melodies and the chirps. Someone was crying loudly and hopelessly. Fabian looked around and saw the shadow of something huge leaned against the mountain wall.
Fabian could not believe what he saw. Round-eyed. Curly-haired. Big-boned.
Fabian's light voice cut right through the convulsions and the troll looked up, startled, his eyes now even bigger and rounder.
– I am Fabian. I live in the white house down there. Who are you?
– I am Glimgluff. I am the youngest in the troll family living in this mountain.
Fabian tried to conceive of this idea. It seemed to make sense. If someone should live in a mountain, it should be a troll.
– Why are you crying?
– Nobody likes us. Nobody likes ME. I am too big, too ugly, too scary. People think that we are all bad. That we keep children captured in the mountain.
– I have heard those stories. Are they not true?
– Well…there have been a few bad trolls in the family, who did bad things. But that was then. I am not them. I love children. I just want to play. But I am so big and heavy, I can't fit into any building. And it is making me feel really lonely.
Fabian felt really sorry for Glimgluff. He seemed to be a boy just like him but caught in the body of a giant.
– What should I do?
Glimgluff looked at Fabian with round button eyes that never seemed to blink.
Fabian sat down next to him.
– Do you want to come fishing with me?
Glimgluff looked like he couldn't believe what he was hearing. He nodded so intensely that his moss covered curls flung back and forth.
All morning they were down at the river, fishing with Fabian's rod. It looked like a toothpick in Glimgluff's hands. He was much too strong indeed and pulled the fish so hard out of the water that the line snapped every time. Or he accidentally squeezed the fish when he wanted to remove the hook, leaving only a wet stain between his thumb and his index finger. They were laughing until they couldn't stand up anymore and the mountain trembled just a little every time.
They hurried back before the sun was too high in the sky, trolls were not supposed to be out in broad daylight.
– The question you asked me this morning. Ask me again.
Glimgluff had to think really long and hard.
– You are trying to fit into a tiny, human world. Why don't you pull other people into your world instead? There is so much space and fun in your world. I could play with you forever.
Glimgluff was thinking is his slow troll fashion and suddenly his brown, apple-cheeked face shone like the sun.
Since then, Gliffgluff has invited loads of children into his magic world. He has many friends and even though he still cries sometimes, he never has to cry alone anymore.
The weaver of wisdom and protection. Such a calm guardian. Kind, loving, fierce.
Yet she scared most people. Their fear wrote stories about her character and hers was a life that could be taken. Not a loss. She was a creepy being anyway.
In the ancient stories she was loved and praised because of the silky patterns she could weave. Only visible to the eye in the sunlight. And yes she could catch what she needed to feed her family. Why shouldn't she? Everyone knew back then that she was a sacred guardian.
But people forgot. And now they seemed to want to kill her most of the time.
She was wondering if it was time to return to the unseen world, but she loved the world too much to leave it unwoven and unprotected.
Now and then there were beings even in the human world who could feel her presence and honour her role, her thread in the big fabric. That made it easier.
One day the ancient stories would be remembered, told, restored and rewoven. They were too magic and loving to disappear. She knew that nothing is ever really lost.
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  isInteractionTrainable(interactionId: string): boolean {
    const _interactionId = (
      interactionId as keyof typeof InteractionSpecsConstants.INTERACTION_SPECS
    );
    const interactionSpecs =
      InteractionSpecsConstants.INTERACTION_SPECS[_interactionId];
    if (!interactionSpecs) {
      throw new Error(interactionId + ' is not a valid interaction id');
    }
    return interactionSpecs.is_trainable;
  }
}

angular.module('oppia').factory(
  'InteractionSpecsService',
  downgradeInjectable(InteractionSpecsService));

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The Cho Show Ep. 11
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On this weeks episode host "JG Smooth" breaks down another University of Central Oklahoma win as well as previewing their upcoming matchup with rival Northeastern State in the battle for the President's Cup. He also gives an insight into the future of the podcast following football season.
Third quarter perfection, Thunder win: Five Thoughts
Last night, the Oklahoma City Thunder defeated the Los Angeles Clippers thanks to an outstanding second-half performance: 128-110 the final score. It has been a game of two halves. In the first half, the Thunder weren't able to stop the Clippers without fouling. This didn't help at all, first of all, because the Clippers shot […]
A Los Angeles Clippers Collapse in the Third Quarter led Way to the Oklahoma City Thunder's Win
Megan Hines
The Los Angeles Clippers had an astonishing collapse in the third quarter against the Oklahoma City Thunder in their loss. A dominant second half for the Oklahoma City Thunder led the way to the Thunder's 128-110 win over the Los Angeles Clippers. This was a different game for the Clippers and Thunder in Oklahoma City, […]
Los Angeles Lakers' Late Fourth Quarter Rally was not enough as They Fell to the Minnesota Timberwolves
Jimmy Butler and the Minnesota Timberwolves were too much for the Los Angeles Lakers to handle as the Lakers fell to the Timberwolves. By the saving grace of Jimmy Butler late in the fourth quarter, the Minnesota Timberwolves defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 124-120 on Monday night in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Butler scored 15 points in […]
Los Angeles Clippers Roll Over Washington Wizards in Win
The Los Angeles Clippers blew out the Washington Wizards in a huge win for the team. Multiple players scoring and being unselfish helped the Los Angeles Clippers dominate in their 136-104 win against the Washington Wizards on Sunday evening. In dominating fashion, many of the Clippers' players were in double figures as the team never trailed in […]
Noel could start at power forward for Thunder
Addam M. Francisco
The experienced but winless Oklahoma City Thunder faced a youthful Phoenix Suns team without their ace on Sunday evening and looked to take advantage of that on their home court. A victory appeared probable leading up to tip-off, but the last-minute news of Steven Adams sitting out with stiffness in his left calf left Thunder […]
The Los Angeles Clippers' Bench Pushes Them in Win over Houston Rockets
The Los Angeles Clippers bench does damage in their win against the Houston Rockets. Montrezl Harrell had a career night in the Los Angeles Clippers 133-111 win over the Houston Rockets. Harrell's career high 30 points contributed to the Clippers' bench taking over the game as they scored 85 points in the game. Harrell finished […]

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Go to Custom Reports under Data and Reports tab of the menu. Click on New Student Report or New Employee Report to create a new report.
Go to the custom reports page to view list of reports. Click on view report to view that report.
Here is a screenshot of the creation page for a student.


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import helpers.common as common
import helpers.io as io
from multiprocessing import Process
from guassian import getMean, getDeviation
import math
import gc

# creates clusters from the filtered data
def createClusters(data, filename, assignName, allowPartners, helpers):
	clusters = []

	for element in data:
		cluster = common.Cluster(allowPartners, filename, element.score)

		member1 = common.Member(element.pair[0], assignName, helpers)
		member2 = common.Member(element.pair[1], assignName, helpers)

		cluster.add(member1)
		cluster.add(member2)

		clusters.append(cluster)

	return clusters

def sortFun(a, b):
	if a.score < b.score:
		return -1
	return 1

# runs an entry in parellel
def runEntry(filename, students, helpers, assignment, args, allowPartners):
	# get the data
	assignName = assignment.name
	sourceSuffix = args["sourceSuffix"]
	resultsSuffix = args["resultsSuffix"]
	percent = float(args["percent"]) / 100.0
	top = args["top"]

	safeFilename = common.makeFilenameSafe(filename) + sourceSuffix
	filepath = helpers.getProcessedPath(assignName, safeFilename)

	if filepath != None:
		rawData = common.PairResults(assignName, safeFilename, helpers)
		data = []

		# convert into python objects
		i = 0
		for pair in rawData.iterate():
			data.append(pair)

			i += 1
			if i % 100000 == 0:
				gc.collect()

		# sort them
		data.sort(sortFun)

		# calculate and print stats
		mean = getMean(data)
		dev = getDeviation(data, mean)
		helpers.printf("{}/{} mean: {}, std. devation: {}\n".format(assignName, filename, mean, dev))

		# take to the top bottom percent
		takeNum = math.floor(float(len(data)) * percent)
		if "maxResults" in args:
			takeNum = min(args["maxResults"], takeNum)

		if top:
			data = data[::-1] # conveniently reverse

		results = []
		taken = 0
		index = 0
		while taken < takeNum:
			current = data[index]

			member1 = common.Member(current.pair[0], assignName, helpers)
			member2 = common.Member(current.pair[1], assignName, helpers)
			cluster = common.Cluster(allowPartners, filename, current.score)
			cluster.add(member1)
			cluster.add(member2)

			if cluster.hasCheating() == False:
				# student are partners, ignore
				index += 1
				continue

			# take this entry
			taken += 1
			index += 1
			results.append(current)

			if index % 50000 == 0:
				gc.collect()

		# create the clusters
		clusters = createClusters(results, filename, assignName, allowPartners, helpers)

		# group pairs if necessary
		if args.has_key("groupPairs") and args["groupPairs"] == True:
			clusters = common.groupPairClusters(clusters, top)

		# free up RAM
		gc.collect()

		# flush to disk
		common.clustersToStandardJSON(clusters, assignName, common.makeFilenameSafe(filename) + resultsSuffix, helpers)

		# all done!
		helpers.printf("Finished '{}/{}', with {} results!\n".format(assignName, filename, len(clusters)))

# the main function
def run(students, assignments, args, helpers):
	# threads to join later
	threads = []

	# for each assignment
	for assignment in assignments:
		# for each entry
		assignName = assignment.name
		allowPartners = assignment.args["allowPartners"]

		# print progress
		helpers.printf("postprocessing '{}' in serial...\n".format(assignName))

		# allow entry lists and file lists
		entries = []
		if assignment.args.has_key("entries"):
			entries = assignment.args["entries"]
		else:
			if assignment.args.has_key("files"):
				entries = assignment.args["files"]

		for entry in entries:
			# use the first source as the filename in case fo an entry
			filename = entry
			if assignment.args.has_key("entries"):
				filename = entry["sources"][0]

			# run the entry
			runEntry(filename, students, helpers, assignment, args, allowPartners)

	# all done
	return True


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Updated 1/8/2019 5:52 AM
'Dominique was love': Girl saved by groundbreaking surgery dies unexpectedly
Baby Dominique with Nancy Swabb of Chicago, who hosted the girl when she needed surgery in March 2017. Daily Herald file photo
Dominique, born in Ivory Coast, rests after her life-changing surgery in 2017 at Advocate Children's Hospital in Park Ridge. courtesy of Advocate Children's Hospital
After life-changing surgery in 2017 at Advocate Children's Hospital in Park Ridge, Dominique was all smiles and expected to live a normal life. Malaria is believed to be the cause of her death last year. courtesy of Advocate Children's Hospital
A little girl whose groundbreaking surgery brought many people together in 2017, Dominique was a healthy and happy little girl back home in the West African nation of Ivory Coast when she apparently contracted malaria and died a few days later last year. courtesy of Advocate Children's Hospital
Burt Constable
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The bright red envelope with the "all is calm, all is bright" holiday stamp gives no hint of the heartache inside.
"It is with deep sadness and grief that I share the news that our sweet and beautiful Dominique has died," reads the year-in-review letter from Nancy Swabb, the Chicago mom who welcomed the toddler from the West African nation of Ivory Coast into her home before and after a successful life-changing surgery in 2017 at Advocate Children's Hospital in Park Ridge. "It's hard to believe, I know. Dominique was love."
Dominique, who was born in the West African nation of Ivory Coast, rests after surgery in 2017 at Advocate Children's Hospital in Park Ridge. - courtesy of Advocate Children's Hospital
The relationship between Swabb and Dominque was celebrated last Mother's Day, which was Dominique's second and final birthday, with a feel-good Daily Herald column explaining the bond between Swabb and the happy and healthy active kid with a smile that spanned two continents.
"I just fell in love with her," Swabb said of Dominique then. "I feel we will have a bond forever."
Expected to have a long life after her successful surgery, Dominque developed a high fever in her Ivory Coast home and died a few days later on Oct. 29, 2018. The Swabb family sent Dominque home with mosquito netting, but Swabb says, "We suspect that malaria took her life." The mosquito-borne illness killed 435,000 people worldwide in 2017, most of them children younger than 5, according to the World Health Organization.
"We want to keep her story alive, her spirit," Swabb says of Dominque. "She really made us all feel so good."
Borrowing a concept and a hashtag used last year by her friend Jen Kramer, the director of university events at DePaul, Swabb is using #yearoflove and #dominiqueislove to highlight kindhearted and inspiring people on her Facebook page throughout 2019.
Tim and Nancy Swabb and daughter Mara, who were Dominique's host family while she was in the U.S. for surgery, say the relationship they formed with the baby from the Ivory Coast continues to inspire them. - Daily Herald file photo, 2017
Swabb says she, her husband, Tim, and their daughters Lena, 16, and Mara, 11, got so much joy from their relationship with Dominique and the girl's family members, who still keep in touch online. "I will always consider you my sister and we will be connected forever," Dominque's father told Swabb.
Swabb, a marketing expert and event planner who served as an infant-care volunteer for a decade at a Chicago hospital, first saw Dominique's story on the website for Children's Medical Mission West, which arranged Dominique's medical care in the United States. Swabb and her family hosted the girl before and after her groundbreaking "miracle" surgery.
Born with an extremely rare condition in which a twin stops developing during gestation but fails to separate from the other body, Dominque endured a six-hour surgery to remove the bottom half of the twin's body -- the waist, spine, bladder, two moving legs and feet -- protruding from Dominique's neck and back.
Born with a rare defect in which an undeveloped twin's lower body was attached to her neck and back, Dominique recovered quickly after the six-hour surgery in 2017 at Advocate Children's Hospital in Park Ridge. - courtesy of Advocate Children's Hospital
"It's why we go into medicine," Dr. John Ruge, the pediatric neurosurgeon who led the Advocate Children's Hospital team that cared for Dominique, said at the time. "I'm just really proud of our team. I have a lot of rewarding cases, but this one is unique. She's a happy little girl, walking around and normal."
After Dominique's death, the hospital issued a statement. "Our hearts are broken at Advocate Children's Hospital," began the notice. "Our thoughts and prayers are with Dominique's family and the Swabb family of Chicago, who served as Dominique's host family during her surgery and recovery. Dominique touched all of our hearts."
Posting good news daily in Dominique's memory is the way Swabb keeps the girl in those hearts. "I want to have that little moment of happiness every day," Swabb says. "I'm doing it because there was so much good and so much love that came out of it."
Constable: Born with four legs, girl now celebrates 2nd birthday with moms on two continents
Health Crises
Constable, Burt


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No lib'rals and Commies in the bunker
Posted in Crazy Weapons, Extremism at 1:23 pm by George Smith
The Arizona Star published a big piece on survivalists/preppers today. It featured Tim Ralston, mentioned previously on the blog as Tim Thumb, the man who shot a big chunk of his opposable digit off in a gun accident for the worst reality tv show, ever, Doomsday Preppers.
Why feature the heevahavas?
Well, they're local color. And for some, including Tim Thumb, training preppers has become a business in a down economy. While the logic of taking survival advice from someone known for a spectacularly stupid and painful accident with a firearm on television escapes me it has apparently worked in just the opposite manner for Ralston.
Kooks love more of the same, one supposes.
Notable for a droll tone — you have to read the bits about the zombie network survivalists, some excerpts:
There are firearms too, including handguns and a laser-sighted rifle. Because if there is one thing Ralston is sure about, people are going to get very angry very quickly when a solar storm knocks out the power grid. Or the economy collapses. Or zombies attack (though fictional, Ralston still has the perfect tool for reintroducing the undead to death).
The more people ready to face doomsday, he figures, the fewer who will come knocking at his bunker (and those of others) looking for food and water.
And that day could arrive next year, Ralston says, riding a coronal mass ejection (which is even sloppier than it sounds) that triggers an electromagnetic pulse …
Lisa Bedford considers herself a turtle in the disaster-prepping race. Slowly, steadily, the Peoria mom has amassed the food, water and equipment necessary to deal with a disaster — not the "asteroid strikes Earth" kind, necessarily, but the sort that might force the family to live on their own for weeks and months.
Bedford is a calmer survivalist, cringing when she hears of people talking about super volcanoes or nuclear attacks or melting polar ice caps and the global flooding that will result.
"It (doomsday prepping) seems to hinge on fear-mongering," Bedford says. "At the core, I believe it's about common sense and an awareness of what's going on worldwide, not just in America."
Certainly survival plays a part, and the author of "Survival Mom: How to Prepare Your Family for Everyday Disasters and Worst-Case Scenarios" has a gun and knows how to use it.
Her fears are more down-to-earth than those buried 3 feet under in a bunker. Should economic jitters give way to strife and panic, she will be ready. And if the doomsday scenarios pitched by extreme preppers make people more apt to stockpile necessities, so be it.
"Yes, the shows are fear-mongering," Bedford says …
There is mention that preparation mania has roots from deep in the Cold War, specifically mentioning the Cuban missile crisis. There's not much merit to the argument. A nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union was a real possibility although the number of warheads in the arsenals made fallout shelters pointless. And everyone was in the same boat together.
For the modern preppers/survivalists, everyone is definitely not in the same boat. If there is a shared community, it is one on the extreme nuts right and most of its theology is aimed at telling stories about how all the undesirables "in the city" will need to be warded off and/or killed after a disaster. And the end-of-civilization scenarios have little basis in the real world.
This bothers one of the preppers profiled in the Arizona Star piece. It's been his business for decades and of the current craziness:
Cody Lundin of Prescott is someone who knows well the cyclic trends of prepping.
When Lundin began preaching the value of self-reliance almost 30 years ago … he was a voice in the wilderness …
But Lundin is having a difficult time bearing all the doomsday-prepper chatter. He shakes his head at the extremism espoused by those who want to store mountains of food and an arsenal of guns in a remote bunker.
The survival at all costs ethic makes him queasy.
Reporter Scott Craven mentions Tim Thumb's Crovel entrenching tool for beating someone's head in as a hit with the prepper crowd.
Readers may remember it from here.
User Hostile said,
I recently received a ham radio license and got noble idea to volunteer for the county's emergency organization as a radio operator.
It went well at first. I went to a meeting and ran into a great bunch of people; they gave me a phone number as a contact for some other business I needed to know.
So I called the guy and he gave me some information that I needed, and then I asked about the emergency organization. He told me that he wasn't an actual member. Confused, I asked why? As you would expect, you need to have a standard criminal background check. "No big deal," I thought. The problem occurred with respect to there requirements: that you would consent to "other means" as part of the background check. And nobody would elaborate on what "other means" entailed.
Hmm…hmm…it all fits together…connect the dots, people. My chance to help the local community in case of a natural disaster a possible conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism!
Well, that settled that: I'm just too dangerous to trust–thank God, they'll have one less person manning the radios when disaster strikes and people die as a result of sans User Hostile–cuz, otherwise, the terrorist would win.
That would be end of the story, but…a little later, I ran into my sister who spoke about a mutual acquaintance. He, too, had received a ham radio license. He'd gone to a club meeting (which I'd about joining) and discovered that a substantial minority were survivalist. As I understand it, our acquaintance wasn't too concerned at first (he's pretty conservative and a devout Christian, but also a live and let live kind of guy), but gradually realized that for all intents and purposes they were creepy and profoundly selfish people.
I stuck with being a volunteer at a food-bank instead. So far as I can tell, the terrorist and survivalist are not targeting the poor and destitute in this country….
For most of the stories in newspapers there's always one of the prepper/survivalists saying something to the effect that people used to tell him he was nuts but then they stopped. The prepper makes the mistake of thinking they've come round to his or her way of thinking when what has more probably happened is that others have just given up trying to talk to them because it's like having a conversation with an old horse shoe..


"American Idol" judge Ellen DeGeneres has a few ideas on who she'd like to replace Simon Cowell when he leaves at the end of this season.
"I have people I would like," DeGeneres told "Extra's" Terri Seymour in an exclusive interview. "But I'm not gonna tell you."
"I'm mentioning names to them," the funnylady continued. "And hopefully they'll listen to me. Then if that happens, I'll say to you that's who I wanted."
What about this little feud going on between Cowell and host Ryan Seacrest? "I don't know. I think they have crushes on each other. Like boy crushes. It's very heterosexual," DeGeneres joked.
Between her talk show hosting duties and judging "Idol" contestants, DeGeneres is also promoting a new line of postage stamps urging people to adopt shelter pets.
DeGeneres explained, "It's a huge wakeup call to look at pictures of dogs and cats on the stamps and say those were in shelters and they're now in loving homes."
Tune-in to "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" weekdays, and watch "American Idol" tonight on FOX.


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