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Wanting less
Blogging is a vulnerable act of radical writing. Never underestimate how terrifying it is to bare your soul for anyone who happens to put in the right search words to Google. This is one of those vulnerable posts where those of you who know me may snicker to yourselves and make some snide comments. Go ahead: I'm going to deserve it!
But I have also learned that stating something publicly is often the tipping point to dredging up the determination to follow through. So…
I finally figured out that I am happier when I am traveling, in some ways, because my world fits in my backpack and my suitcase. On rare trips there may be a tote bag. That's it. No bookshelves, no clutter piles, not laundry piles, no corners in out-of-the-way rooms waiting for me, condemning me. It's a lesson I had better take to heart. If there's one thing I've learned its that God often speaks in those inner longings of your heart, the half-heard and half-feared whispers.
I need less stuff.
Other people need more stuff.
I need to spend more time and money helping the other people get the stuff they need just to live.
Another truth in establishing any new habit — and less stuff would truly be a new habit — is to smart with a small victory. I'm combining these two habits and blogging my first challenge. Hopefully in a few days I will also blog my first victory.
I will clean out my makeup drawer and reduce it to only what I usually shove in my travel bag for a longish trip. Then I will only replace those items (when they are used up), not add to their number.
That's it. Nothing profound today, just a glimpse of where my life is.
Bonus: This is a quick post I found on how to actually clean out the makeup drawer. Why reinvent the wheel? http://www.luuux.com/node/2930066
Have you ever read your child's first attempts at writing out loud while they watched? I remember the girls: their little tongues would stick out of their mouths as if they were feeling all over again the angst of getting the words just right. It was hard work for them to stand and listen as I read their words. On their faces would flicker first pride then embarrassment. I remember well standing in their little places, too, as my writing was read out for all to hear. I remember one time when a card I'd worked on for two days was labelled as "Forgot to buy a real card?" It conditioned me to not be vulnerable with my writing. For heaven's sake, the reasoning went, don't let family read our writing. Strangers are much kinder.
Hence, blogging. It's generally a much kinder platform for writers like me who use the stuff of life to springboard their thoughts.
And now the point: I need to apologize to you, my bloggy readers. You see, I've not been vulnerable with you. Especially since, roughly, November of last year. I'm afraid to write what I really feel, because I know that there are new "family members" reading every word. Some of them aren't even really family, but they count. Doing some soul-searching at why I refuse to blog even though the posts are running constantly through my head, that's the best answer I can come up with.
But I miss my blog friends. I miss the fellowship of writers and the daily push to see the world with different eyes. So I've decided to be honest, vulnerable. I will start by telling you (and them) what's holding me back.
Last November my oldest daughter, Kylie, was found via facebook by her birth family. Her older sister found her first, followed by a host of other new relatives. Some day I will write about that experience (please hold me accountable!), but let me just say that I love the relatives we have found. Ashley, if you are reading this, you are precious to me. But writing for this new crowd? Intimidating! And now, we do this again. Last week my youngest daughter, Jillian, was found on facebook by HER birth family. Here we grow again! David and I have loved getting to know these new family members and putting puzzle pieces of Jillian's life together. I just don't know exactly how to process all this without writing about it!
And oh yes, there are others of you out there who intimidate me just a bit: relatives who live with my mom at Dowling Park, high school friends, even (just sometimes) my in-laws and my husband! Sometimes I love the idea of an anonymous blog.
But today I was reminded why I write. A comment on an older post (My Father's House) reminded me that sometimes the things I have to say reach into another person's heart and resonate there. This is a crazy journey in the Kingdom that we are all on, and traveling together makes the journey so much more worthwhile. So it's back to writing I go.
If you read this my dear bloggy friends, would you mind sending me a comment to encourage me to keep going? Hearing from you will build accountability and — hopefully — freedom. Of course, if you'd rather I hush up, please feel free to say that, too!!!
Looking forward to hearing from you…
Bloggy Link Love: what I am reading
You will be the same person five years from now except for the places you go, people you meet and information you read. Wow. Good reminder to be intentional with your reading! Having said that, I thought I'd let you sample a few of the "nuggets" in my own personal Google blog reader today!
From my friend Ed Bahler comes this interesting discussion of mega churches. As I am firmly entrenched in Christ Fellowship, which qualifies for but really dislikes that label of mega church, I found this interesting.
We were wrong!
We believed young people would be turned off be the boomer generation mega church. Small churches and incarnational coffee shop gatherings would provide the soul conversations and authentic relationships they longed for.
However, a recent study by Warren Bird at Leadership Network and Scott Thumma at the Hartford Institute reveals that:
66% of mega church attenders are younger than 45 versus 33% for other protestant churches.
The average age for mega church attenders is 40 versus 53 for other protestant churches.
18% of mega church attenders are under 24 versus 5% for other protestant churches.
The startling fact is mega churches appear to be magnets for the younger, well educated crowd while smaller protestant churches attract the boomer crowd and their parents.
But why?
What about those soul conversations and authentic relationships?
We know they prosper best when we are sacrificing for a common purpose together. And that shared sacrifice nurtures spiritual growth as well. Young people are drawn to purposeful relationships and spiritual growth. And mega churches are leveraging their people, financial resources, voice in the community, and leadership skills to make those activities happen.
Any church can mobilize their people and create these remarkable bonding and spiritual growth opportunities. However, it appears mega churches are learning to leverage their resources better than most.
Does that surprise you like it does me?
Jeff Shinnabarger always makes me think. Here is one of his posts from a recent trip to Guatemala, and some stunning photography.
Her feet were ashy, beaten up, swollen, and storied. Can you imagine being 60 years old and working in no shoes. Imagine the narration her feet could give. A widow and a grandmother of 7 children. She has no home, but she does have a family. Her husband died thirty years ago in the civil way. Her face had a wrinkle for every hard time in her life. We built the house in 4 hours and she lived for 30 years without it. We communicated through 3 translations to understand her thoughts. He daughter was overjoyed with tears about her "big new house." Meanwhile, most of our personal beds wouldn't even fit through the door. We are called to care for the widows, now we have a glimpse of why we should. They are souls that comprehend grace more than we could ever imagine. The lives of widows are ones that care for others and none care for them. They are selfless expressions of love. We are selfish. They are hero's. Meet our new widow friend and her feet: Candelaria.
My friend Laura Anne Mackay, in Scotland (aka Brunette Koala and @KoalainScotland) posted this curiosity-satisfying post about Starbucks in Scotland. Go here to finish reading it and see the pictures!
Those of you who follow the @koalainscotland twitter feed will probably know that every Friday morning Sarah or myself will stop into our local Starbucks to buy Cinnamon Swirls.
@irishwings and his wife were wanting to see what Starbucks in Scotland looks like, and trust me there are many here in Edinburgh – but this one is one of my favourite to visit.
I love to check in with the blog associated with Neue magazine. There was recently an interesting article on prayer. Here is the paragraph that caught my eye.
I think a wonderful application of the word gap is Generation Applying Prayer. Each generation needs to look at their own time and find out what is pleasing to God about how they are living and what needs to be changed. How does the generation and the times we live in measure up to the Word of God? Whatever deterioration of our society we see becomes our prayer assignment.
Long-time favorite and teaching pastor at Christ Fellowship, John Maxwell had these thoughts to share on a recent blog post. Read the whole article afterward…it's worth it!
1. Expose Yourself to Good Input
Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.
Read books, review trade magazines, listen to CDs, and spend time with good thinkers. And when something intrigues you-whether it's someone else's idea or the seed of an idea that you've come up with yourself-keep it in front of you. Put it in writing and keep it somewhere in a favorite place to stimulate your thinking.
Michael Hyatt writes on a broad range of subjects. Recently he was hunting for a pair of shoes and ended up writing an amazing post about exceeding expectations. Here is a snippet, but — again — go read the original later!
This entire experience exceeded my expectations. I had already been spoiled by other online retailers like Amazon. But this took the customer experience to an entirely new level. The personal attention to detail was surprising and unexpected. As I have written about previously, this is one of the keys to generating wow experiences.
In today's environment, you cannot ignore the details. Taken together, they create the customer experience. Over time, the customer may forget the specifics, but he will remember how the interaction made him feel. And that feeling will guide his future loyalties and buying decisions
The future of Coffee Shop Journal
I am in a post-Maxwellian overload. If you've been to any major thought-provoking conference, you know what I mean. Ideas are pouring past my poor brain faster than I have time or energy to write them down. Now some of that may be due to caffeine overload (probably is!), but not all. This Maxwell conference has impacted me more than others I've been to, perhaps because the emphasis was less on leadership and more on personal goals and — quite obviously — dreams. I can actually imagine some bosses who took their teams to the conference being nervous. "Dreams? I'm not sure I want my team dreaming. I think I want them working. For me." It is a tension: inspire people to turn their dreams into concrete reality vs. inspire people to lead others in the work to which they've been called. Or signed up for. Dilemma. David and I, in fact, took our top level employee with us. I can't wait to see what dreams he has, though I certainly hope they include us!!!
So today I am dreaming over Coffee Shop Journal, and my other blog (rarely updated) Dancing Thru her Daddy's World. I originally separated the two because Dancing had a personal focus while Coffee Shop — theoretically — has a more missional (caffeinated missional…ooh…new description of who I am!) approach. But over time, as you all know, who I am and where I go has seeped into Coffee Shop while Dancing has waited patiently in the corner.
Here, my readers, is my question for you. And for once I need you to pause and comment for feedback, if you would. Should these two blogs be combined or continue their separate lives? Should Coffee Shop remain as focused as this scatterbrained person can make it? Or would you like to have the personal posts mixed in? Today David and I were sitting at a lovely waterway cafe by the intracoastal waterway. I wanted to write about it. But it's really a Dancing post, not a Coffee Shop post. I'm a woman in conflict!
Another interesting side-effect of the conference is that I have picked up my old-school, handwritten, doodled in and loved journal again. For the past year I've not been using it, but today I can't leave it alone. There are some things that just don't fit into a digital world, aren't there. I'll be intrigued to see how the journaling finds its way into my writing. It always does, in the end.
So help me out, those of you who care…give me a little feedback while I'm still in this super-productive, hyper-creative, change-the-world mood.
And a final word of warning: don't attend a Maxwell Conference days before you need to be utterly practical because you are throwing a welcome-home-newly-married-couple party for 40 people!
Practice creativity
Before time itself was measured, the Voice was speaking. The Voice was and is God. This celestial Voice remained ever present with the Creator, His speech shaped the entire cosmos. Immersed in the practice of creating, all things that exist were birthed in Him. His breath filled all things with a living, breathing light — light that thrives in the depths of darkness, blazing through murky bottoms. It cannot, and will not, be quenched.
— John 1:1-5, the Voice translation
This powerful opening of the book of John stopped me in my tracks yesterday. Once upon a time, you see, I used to purposely set aside time to be creative. I painted (badly), I drew (better), I wrote, I decorated. Way back I even wrote a newsletter called HomeLight (a newsletter — for those of you who may not know — was like a hardcopy of a blog. Only slower. And much harder to produce.) in which I encouraged women (and the two men, both relatives, who would read it!) how to be creative. I thrived on new ideas. Then I grew up. Last year, when pressures seemed to be more real and urgent.
What so impacted me in these verses, so startled me that my life may need to take a right hand turn in direction, was the phrase "Immersed in the practice of creating, all things that exist were birthed in him." The practice of creating. If it's going to exist, it needs to be birthed. Creativity isn't going to burst forth fully blown. It must be practiced. With intention.
Be like me, God says, immersed in the practice of creating.
I am at the verge of a new stage of life, and God calls me to create it. If it will exist, it needs to be spoken into existence. By me. These verses mean that there is a call on our lives to not accept the daily routine, to stand up and begin the work of creating. Create space, create time, create beauty and art (even if that means hanging other people's art!). Begin again the work. These verses give me permission, imperative, to arrange and rearrange.
Be like me, God says, immersed in the practice of creating.
Coffee Shop Journal gets a new style!
Coffee Shop Journal is trying out a new style! What do you think?
David and I are not finished tweaking the re-design, but I couldn't wait to "live in the new space" for awhile. I'd love to hear your comments as we work through this process, so please comment and register your opinion. At the moment, these are some things that I'm pondering:
- I don't have enough coffee here! My java-loving heart wants to see some more coffee cups or coffee beans or something. Working on that.
- More color? On the other hand, white is clean.
- What do you think of the font and the font size? Is it readable? This was one of my pet peeves on my last design, so I want to get it right.
Happy Birthday, Coffee Shop Journal. Enjoy stepping out in style!
Coffee Shop News
Hello everyone! I've missed you! I deliberately took most of Easter week off from the blog in order to practice the concept of Sabbath, resting, allowing God to speak into a space of time and energy. But I'm back and brimming with tidbits that don't fit into whole posts. So enjoy the chatter around the coffee shop today.
- Last year I went to a conference called Q. At the time, I knew Q was having an impact on my life, but a year later I'm amazed at the shift in my perspectives and attitudes. Perhaps the most fulfilling result of Q has been all the internet friends who I either met there for the first time or met subsequently through our blogs and twitters and facebooks. One of my first tablemates at Q, Lawrence Tom (or LT) is an American Born Chinese Pastor. We've stayed in touch over the year, and his faith encourages me to keep stretching. Today he posted a twitter about a NY Times article that profiles homeless people selling papers as a way to pull themselves up. It seems to me that this topic keeps popping into my life, though I'm not sure why! Anyway, it is an interesting article.
- Speaking of Street Roots and my short conversation with George, you can read their response to my visit on their blog here.
- My friend Melody from Seattle told me that you can buy the new Starbucks Via instant coffee from Costco now, at a cheaper price than in the stores. Of course, those of us not in Seattle have not seen Via in the stores yet, though you can order it online at Starbucks.
- I've got a backlog of posts swirling in my mind for the next week or so. Sneak preview? Easter Changes Everything at Christ Fellowship; I traveled to Seattle to make the pilgrimage to the mother ship of Starbucks; Connections with family in the northwest; running on a treadmill reminded me that someone is always watching…there are others, but that will do for now!
- Finally, while I was distracted traveling and spring breaking etc., I completely skipped over the one year anniversary of Coffee Shop Journal!!!! Wow! I'm still in love with the day to day interaction out in the blogosphere, so I'm predicting more anniversaries to come. I think that will need to be a post in and of itself. But I also think one year needs celebrating. Maybe a blog redesign?
That's all for this post-Easter Monday afternoon. For one brief moment in time it is quiet in the house, with no distractions. I'm going to soak it in and listen to the sound of the warm clothes in the dryer and the coffee pot brewing me some Bella Vista. Life is so good.
Blog Art: Wordle again
I love to do this every once in awhile to see if I'm writing about the the things that matter. Today I was encouraged!
I wonder what a Wordle Art of the words that actually come out of our mouths would look like? Wow…now that's a wee bit convicting.
Where does your blog fall in the rankings?
I've been pondering my bloggy life today. There are weeks when it feels like each day I have something really important to share. I can't hardly wait to write! And then there are times when I have a few days in a row when nothing really jumps out at me. Some days I feel incredibly coffee-ish, and other days it's the community that sparks my imagination. Some days I just wonder how you all put up with me! (And I think this day is one of them!).
Tonight I've been reading one of my favorite blogs, the Tall Skinny Kiwi. He published a post about the top 60 Christian bloggers. Now as soon as there's a "Top…" type of post, my heart thumps and I actually begin to feel competitive. I wonder how I can break into that group, or get this ranking, or link here or there. There's a real bloggy celebrity culture that is alluring once in awhile.
Until I remember that my life is not my own. It's bought and paid for already, and whatever use it is depends on God, not me. I remember the amazing people that I have already met through blogging, and the friendships that are growing over the days and weeks as we read each other's posts. I remember how the blogs on the top of the heap have inspired me, led me, taught me, reprimanded me, held me accountable. They need to continue to do that for other people! So rather than let my competitive edge begin to rear its head, I approached this list as a resource for more great reading and growth in my own spirit.
Digging down into Tall Skinny Kiwi I read this paragraph from a 2007 post on blogging tips. It seemed to capture my heart tonight, so I decided to share it.
15. Don't Love To Be First.
Coming first in the Google race can be an idol and it can also be inappropriate if someone else should be there. Sometimes its good NOT to be number one. There is a place for getting your post found and perhaps your post deserves that waterfront location on the search engine results BUT there is also a place for allowing others to be first or in control of their own story. I hope that you will find yourself on top of the hill during 2007 to say the things God has put on your heart. But I also hope you have the wisdom and constraint to bow out of the rankings and push others up above yourself. You don't always have to be first. Don't be like Diotrephes, who loved to be first (3 John 1:19) but rather mimic John the Baptist who decided to decrease so that Christ might increase.
Or in the words of George Whitefield, "May the name of Whitefield perish, but Christ be glorified."
To all my bloggy heroes…thank you for all the amazing work you do! And to all my precious bloggy friends (you know who you are, y'all), thank you for speaking God's words into my life and walking through the ups and downs of life in the real world. Even when we only meet in the cyber world!
What blogs do I read?
I thought it would be fun to take a tour of some of my cyber friends. A little link love for a change. I know it's weird to call people I've never met friends, but I do. Here are some of mine, and what I have learned from them.
Boo Mama writes a fun, lighthearted and zippy blog.
- What I've learned from Boo Mama: be yourself! People enjoy your personality, miss Boo Mama, and that's what keeps them coming back and back and back.
Big John Scott is a friend from my Q conference back in April. Nope…never met him! Well, not strictly true. I did 'Bump' into him at the door when he was acting as badge checker and bouncer.
- What I've learned from John: even "professional" ministers have to be intentional at connecting with people. John is a master at staying culturally literate, meeting people in his community, and — especially — walking through life with the people he calls friend.
Biscuet is an American living in China.
- What I've learned from Biscuet: his blog title says it all. "I live in China. I teach. I blog. I love people." I've enjoyed following Biscuet as he teaches English, gives tours of apartments, adapts to life in a foreign country. I love seeing the impact of his life multiply.
Catalyst Space/Catablog is the official blog for the Catalyst Conference.
- What I've learned from Catalyst Space: if there is a trend in church-world, Catalyst finds it and presents it. Presents it well. Go here to find Christmas presents, conferences, speakers and podcasts.
From the Stack on my Desk is written by Larry, another Q guy. Nope, haven't met him either.
- What I've learned from Larry: it isn't enough to take information in. You have to apply what you have learned to your own life, your own church, your own community. Reading Larry's life has inspired me to live mine with more accountability.
Bring on the Joy is one of the blogs of a group of people in Edinburgh, Scotland. I met them through Duncan, who writes a brand new blog called Fourth Space. He used to write one of my favorites, What's Your Point, Caller, but recently changed focuses. Anyway, Bring on the Joy has inspired me.
- What I've learned from Bring on the Joy: add value to the people in your life. She is always willing to jump in on a conversation on a friend's blog, give encouragement, ask advice and generally be real. I love the attitude that BOTJ shows in her writing and commenting.
Musings of a Koala is another blog from the same group. Love them!
- What I've learned from Brunette Koala: live your life on purpose. All of it has a purpose, and God is willing to reveal it if you search long enough. Walking with BK through that journey has taught me so much that I would have missed if she were not my friend.
An Unfinished work is a new friend of mine. I'm still discovering her, but so far am thrilled and challenged!
- What I've learned from Dianne: be encouraging, be honest and learn to look at life in a new way.
Oh, there are so many more. I have posted links to some of them before, and will post more links again, but for now you have a nice little sampling!


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TUCSON, Ariz. - U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords helped serve a Thanksgiving meal to service members and retirees at a military base in her hometown of Tucson, Ariz.
Giffords arrived in the dining hall at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base at midday Thursday wearing a ball cap and an apron with her nickname of "Gabby" sewn on the front. She was accompanied by her retired astronaut husband, Mark Kelly, who also donned an apron.
Giffords used only her left hand as she served, a sign that physical damage remains from the injuries she suffered when she was shot in January.
Kelly supported her from her left side as she worked the turkey station on the serving line. He served ham.
Giffords has been undergoing intensive rehabilitation at TIRR Memorial Hermann in Houston as she recovers from a gunshot wound to the head. She was among 19 people shot Jan. 8 as she met with constituents outside a Tucson supermarket. Six people died.
The congresswoman arrived in Tucson on Tuesday evening from Houston for a private visit with her parents and other family members and friends.
"It's always special to have a member of Congress come and spend time with the troops and show support," said Brig Gen Jon Norman, acting commander of the Acting commander of the 12th Air Forces, Southern. "But after everything that she's been through, it's a little bit more special."
Giffords previously returned to Tucson for the Father's Day and Labor Day weekends.
Kelly said recently that Gabrielle Giffords is "still improving" and she'd like to run for another term. Kelly told ABC's "Good Morning America" his job is to "make sure she can get better so she can go back to her career."
Kelly says Giffords is working on just stringing her sentences together and says viewers didn't see that so much in a recent taped ABC interview.
Kelly says his wife hasn't made the decision yet whether to seek another term, but that she'll know when the time is right.
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is absent, but her House seat is not vacant
Mark Kelly: Won't run for Giffords' House seat
Complete Coverage: Tragedy in Tucson
Giffords: Won't return to Congress til "better"

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Renegades HQ, Datacenter
Affected RPers: Grass, possibly big and whoever is in that entrance still
The sisters got half dragged away by Ninjice to something, but Raven did have some kind of news. Lektra figured it might be the same news that she had. She sent a quick text message to Starfire and the others explaining the situation and for Star to not take too long, then she walked up to Raven.
"Uh Raven, this wouldn't happen to be what you wanted to talk to Star about?" She used her phone to create a 3D image of a Lava Demon, and the Avatars of Sin then held the hologram out for Raven to examine.
Renegades HQ, Training Hall
Affected RPers: DVB, MugoUrth, Deltakurumiru14 (maybe), Grassmaster411, biggggg5
I was about to apologize about crying to much and ask what Raven was on about, but Nin decided to drag my sister and me away to the Training Hall again. We were just here. I decided to talk to her while she smiled at Nin for the kiss. "Okay okay. I like you too, but cool it with the lovey stuff or you'll ruin my tough image." She said to him.
"Sister your powers are not working? What does this mean for me, then? I was learning to use my powers the same way as you." I looked at her confused.
"Yea, they're not working since my drive to kill you kinda up and vanished." She told me rather up front and all.
"Well at least Nin seems to have an idea." I said as I looked around the Training Hall. Various powered individuals were fighting and honing their skills, paying us no mind. He asked if we were ready.
"Like I have a choice? Of course I'm ready. Just don't make me hug puppies or whatever. Humph." My sister said as she crossed her arms and looked at him. The stare was cold, but it seemed softer than we she was bad. She was just sizing him up.
"I am ready, I think?" Saying that rather uncertainly. "You mean you can help me regain the use of my powers from positive emotions again? Would my sister still insist she is stronger?" I looked at the way she was staring at him. Was he going to fight the both of us or did he have something else in mind? I also checked the message from Lektra. Apparently we didn't have a ton of time.


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Wikileaks: Sea Shepherd tax exemption status targeted by Japan in whaling compromise deal
Cables released by wikileaks on January 1st, 2011 reveal Japan was pressuring the US Government to remove Sea Shepherd's tax exemption status as a sweetener to negotiating a compromise deal in the International Whaling Commission that would have reduced whale quotas but legitimated commercial whaling.
The cables reveal the US Government and Japan were deeply involved in a compromise deal on whaling which would legitimate a commercial catch quota for Japan. The cables reveal Australia has remained steadfast against any moves to legitimate whaling in the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary or Australian Antarctic Territory.
In a meeting on November 2, 2009 Japanese Vice Minister for International Affairs Shuji Yamada pressured the US for removal of tax exemption status from Sea Shepherd.
(Excerpt from 09TOKYO2529 Created 2009-11-02)
In another cable dated 9 November 2009 (09TOKYO2588 Created 2009-11-09) stated "action by the U.S. and others on Japan's complaints against the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society would positively influence Japan's negotiating position in the Future of the IWC process."
This cable is a report of a meeting between Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and U.S. representative to the International Whaling Commission Monica Medina and Fisheries Agency of Japan Director General Machida who said that "the violent protests by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) could limit the GOJ's flexibility in the negotiations. He said the Netherlands should have primary responsibly for taking action against the SSCS, but he appreciates the USG initiative to address the group's tax exempt status. He said action on the SSCS would be a major element for Japan in the success of the overall negotiations.
Ms Medina replied that "she believes the USG can demonstrate the group does not deserve tax exempt status based on their aggressive and harmful actions."
In a State Department cable on whaling: request for political engagement the US was willing to concede continuation of whaling at reduced levels in exchange for taking action against Sea Shepherd:
(Excerpted from 09STATE117709 Created 2009-11-14)
A cable on January 27, 2010 from the US Tokyo embassy of discussions with MOFA State Secretary Fukuyama and Fisheries Agency Deputy Director General Yamashita was about pressing Iceland to lower its proposed quota for whaling in order to facilitate an overall agreement on whaling. The US wanted Japan to talk to and pressure Iceland to reduce the number of fin whales killed as the kill numbers is greater than the demand in Japan. Japan was reluctant to do this. Again Japan raised the issue of pressuring Sea Shepherd :
(Excerpt from 10TOKYO171 Created 2010-01-27)
Australia Cool on Whaling Compromise deal
It seems Peter Garrett, the Australian Environment Minister, stood his ground against the compromise deal (10CANBERRA93 created 2010-02-05), although it appears the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade were keen on the compromise deal as a way of reforming the IWC (and perhaps earning some brownie points with the US). Environment Department Chief of Staff David Williams gave a small amount of ground when he outlined a negotiating position for the Australian Government that "delivers a much lower level of whaling, but it has to be accompanied by signals of commitment to address other key issues - sustaining the commercial moratorium, keeping whaling out of the southern sanctuary areas and Australian antarctic waters, bringing all whaling under the control of the IWC, and preventing future scientific whaling." Even this small degree of compromise would be found politically objectionable to many conservation minded Australians.
(Excerpted from 10CANBERRA93 created 2010-02-05)
The five diplomatic cables reveal the two toned nature of the US Government position where it publicly states it's opposition to whaling while it is engaged deeply in negotiating a compromise deal with Japan that would legitimate commercial whaling again.
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It's kind of common knowledge that Khloé Kardashian Odom is the feisty enforcer of the bunch, but could her confrontational personality be coming back to bite her in the booty?
An assault and battery suit has been filed against the E! reality star in Los Angeles Superior Court.
In court papers filed Friday, Chantal Spears (also known as Ronald Spears...yes, you read that right) claims Mrs. Lamar Odom "assaulted and battered plaintiff by violently striking plaintiff in and about her body" back in December 2009 on the Sunset Strip. Spears also alleges that she put her "in great fear for her life and physical well-being."
Spears wants unspecified general and punitive damages and medical expenses; however, no charges were filed. There was no immediate comment from Khloé's camp.
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The tour group watched with eager curiosity as Gerry Wyant, the last to push off into the oak-lined Guadalupe River, dug his paddle into the cool, lazy water.
A few days before, he took a group of 19 down the same route, a group of nine on a trip that started near DeWitt County and turned down 24 others looking to paddle the Guadalupe River.
With a rental business taking off and weekend tours filling his appointment book, Wyant, owner of Gerry's Kayaks LLC, is experiencing firsthand how kayaking in the Crossroads is going mainstream.
"This year, it's just been crazy; sales have gone out the roof," Wyant said.
Wyant has lived in the area since 1976 but didn't discover the joys of the river until about four years ago on his 60th birthday.
In a search for low-impact, calorie-burning activities, he and his wife fell in love with kayaking.
"My blood pressure was going up; my weight was going up; I was sitting at a desk all day," Wyant said.
He and his wife's first trip together was in Powderhorn Bay.
"I loved it," Wyant said.
He saw the need for a rental business and set out to make it happen.
In 2011, he had 10 kayaks in his fleet. His setup has more than doubled to include 28 kayaks, fishing gear, life jackets and a wide selection of paddles and other gear. When he's not shuttling paddlers to and fro, he volunteers for mission work in Guatemala and serves with Toastmasters International.
He wouldn't be surprised if kayaking is the No. 1 recreational sport in the country.
"It's fun, and it's quiet," Wyant said. "You get a serene trip down the river. If you go out in a motorboat, it's constant noise and hitting the waves."
The sport's growing popularity is one reason Kay Posey decided to give it a try.
After hearing of and seeing people float down the river, Posey decided to give it a whirl.
"It looked so fun, I just wanted to try it," Posey, 59, of Victoria, said.
By her second lesson with Wyant, she was hooked.
"Every time you go out, you make friends, and I've made friends with Gerry now," Posey said. "It's a good, fun way to meet people."
With 60 around the corner, Posey made it her goal this year to get motivated and active. She looked up kayak rentals online and came across Wyant's business.
"The minute I talked to Gerry, he seemed like a great man to teach me," Posey said.
Confident enough to read the river's flow and maneuver through a log jam, Posey said it's relaxing, enjoyable and something she can do for years to come.
"It's not that easy rowing for two hours, but it's challenging, and it makes me feel good, and I proved to myself that I can do it," she said. "Be happy and have fun: That's my goal in life right now."
The same is true for Wyant.
Although his original plan was to focus on saltwater kayak fishing trips, about 80 percent of his business is from paddlers at Riverside Park.
His next step is to see about opening a livery in the park for people to rent kayaks and spreading the sport with anyone who is interested.
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And the tax dollars required to support these "refugees" — many of whom, it's turning out, are actually NOT coming from war-torn Syria — are about to explode, given new directives from the Obama administration.
According to Yahoo! News, the administration is now saying that what was supposed to be 10,000 refugee settlers has now mushroomed into a reported 100,000 newcomers to the U.S. by 2017.
"We will now go up to 85,000 with at least 10,000 over the next year in Syria specifically. And in the next fiscal year we will target 100,000," Kerry said.
As we reported last week, many of these desperate refugees are shopping around for the host country with the best benefits. So what will the United States be doing to "compete" in this market for refugees — some of whom may not be quite as tired and poor as they are portrayed to be?
The United Conference of Catholic Bishops recently posted the list of freebies President Obama's offering to those thousands of "refugees" he and the United Nations are demanding America accept. The information came from our very own Government Accountability Office.
As reported by the Daily Caller:
Each refugee is offered a placement grant of $1,850 from the Department of State. This includes: pre-arrival, reception, initial housing food, clothing, referral services and social programs. The benefit eligibility are for those refugees who have been in the U.S. for up to three months.
Refugees needing cash assistance can get it through Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). This is temporary financial assistance and social services for those eligible low-income refugees with dependent children. Cash assistance for refugees who do not qualify for TANF can also be obtained through Refugee Cash Assistance. This is available for those in U.S. for up to 8 months.
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is also an option for incoming refugees and those who settled in the U.S. for up to nine years. This is cash is cash assistance for those low-income individuals who may be elderly, blind, or disabled.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is made available to refugees for up to nine years while social services for refugees — including job training, placement, and retention for those settled in the U.S — are available for up to five years.
Ann Corcoran, founder of Refugee Resettlement Watch, first noticed the posting and comments, "At the top you will see that each refugee gets $1850 as a one time payment from the US Dept. of State (a family of 6 would receive $11,100). However, the contracting (non-profit) agency keeps about $750 of each refugee's allotment for its own overhead."
She later noted, "But, that is not all the contractor receives, most get tens of thousands of federal dollars to run myriad other programs through their offices including English language lessons, employment counseling, and even are granted federal dollars to develop community gardens for their refugee clients."
You do the math. That means at least $342,250,000 of U.S. funds over the next couple of years.
Meanwhile, according to Marine Lt. Gen. Mark Brilakis, providing bullet-proof glass for Marine recruitment offices would cost about $100 million dollars the U.S. government just doesn't have. General Brilakis, I think I just found your $100 million, even if it means that those refugees coming to America will have to suck it up and divide the remaining left over $243 million amongst themselves.
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Snoop Dogg has revealed that his daughter Cori will feature on his new album Reincarnated.
The US rapper, who is now going by the name of Snoop Lion, will release his reggae and dancehall-inspired record on April 22, which will see him collaborating with his teenage daughter, an up-and-coming singer known as Cori B, on No Guns Allowed.
"We were searching for true reggae music and the message of peace and hope it reflects," he said of the album.
The music star, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, continued: "It's so much a part of who I am, and this record is all about paying homage and giving respect to those who created and love reggae music, and hopefully introducing it to a whole new audience. I feel truly honoured to make this album and respect to all who blazed the path for me."
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The NY Times recently editorialized as follows, in a post called "Free Speech vs. Hate Speech"
There is no question that images ridiculing religion, however offensive they may be to believers, qualify as protected free speech in the United States and most Western democracies. There is also no question that however offensive the images, they do not justify murder, and that it is incumbent on leaders of all religious faiths to make this clear to their followers.
But it is equally clear that the Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest in Garland, Tex., was not really about free speech. It was an exercise in bigotry and hatred posing as a blow for freedom….
The editorial is confusing for 2 reasons:
1) The title suggests that hate speech is not free speech. Generally, in the U.S., hate speech is free. The main exception is when the speech promotes imminent violence (which is an issue altogether separate from the question of hate: speech promoting violence may be motivated by something other than hate, and hateful speech often does not promote violence).
2) Marginal, but nevertheless protected, speech in the U.S. is a "blow for freedom" not because it is "about free speech" (speech about free speech is probably more likely to put people to sleep than to break any new ground or enhance freedoms), but because it is offensive or otherwise marginal. Pam Geller's situation is an interesting one because she probably did think she was striking a "blow for freedom" because of the substance of her argument, but really she struck a blow for freedom because she put together another example of crude, bigoted behavior that is nevertheless protected in the U.S. A blow for freedom and a blow against decency and against community. Geller, and similarly, the Phelps church, help to define our freedoms by reminding us how costly our freedom is, and how we ultimately are in favor of it despite its costs. Is it worth it? In the Geller and Phelps cases no — too hateful.


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The idea led to the development of the product was the need to take notes during lectures. As most of you know, I'm taking notes during most of the lectures I'm attending using my computer and latex. The problem is, that sometime it is hard to follow, and sometimes different people have different insights.
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According to their ABOUT on their website "Marguerito got its name from an imagined barista/college dropout/lothario character whose perspective inspired [their] debut album "I'm Having an Affair" (2011)." That definitley describes the angsty heart broken voice of lead singer/songwriter Jake Fertig. Check out their video and our discussion below.
Play Too Much: Hey Jake! Lets get down to business. Why did you choose this song to make a video for?
JF: It was filmed in Wayne, NJ, where all four of us in the band grew up. We shot it in 2 days with our DP Andrew Daugherty. It was crazy — every video has its ambitious production "thing" and for us it was the amount of locations – I think we had 12. So we were constantly driving and on the move to get each separate scene. We literally shuttled in Theresa and James (the actors in the car) from New York just to kiss in our high-school parking lot. So the days consisted of traveling to about 6 places — PATH train, our local coffee shop Greenberry's, a local farm we shot at guerrilla style, my parents' home, my neighbors' home, with different actors each time. We'd arrive at a place and the actors would be like, okay, "what are we doing?" Then we'd find the shot and move on.
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I hate this guy. He's tough, a pain to get to, and you have to lose a human effigy every time you want to fight him – it doesn't really get any worse. In my own humble and personal opinion, this is the most difficult boss in Dark Souls II. Luckily, he's optional. So unless you're looking for some classic 'Souls' armor or some unique spells, this guy is completely avoidable. I just wanted to be able to say I did it.
I like being highly mobile in this fight, I dropped and swapped gear to get below 30% burden. I use dual +10 rapiers to maximize damage in little bursts. The key to this fight is to watch both of him at all times and only attack when it's absolutely safe. If you get greedy at all, you'll die. He does tons of damage and if he staggers you, the other him may finish you off. So yea, at about 50% life he will split into two – both equal in power and both damageable.
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His reputation drew a Harvard football coach nearly 3,000 miles to meet him.
Through it all, T.J. has maintained his love for his parents, no matter how they may have failed him, and relied on the grandparents who raised him. He's counting on them all to be there on Friday, when he takes the field against Riverside King for the first game of his final high school season.
There will be a final challenge for T.J. before his time at Ramona is through: Reversing the fortunes of a team that lost all 11 games last season.
Giving an interview in a sweltering locker room, T.J.'s sculpted biceps tensed as he squeezed a well-worn football.
"We won't go 0-11 again," T.J. said. "There's just no way."
Mark Sutton believes him.
Sutton was voted one of the best offensive linemen in the Inland Valley League for throwing his 285-pound frame in front of defenders to protect T.J. a year ago. He's seen his quarterback's determination firsthand and said it was never more apparent than in a 32-15 loss to Moreno Valley Canyon Springs last October.
T.J. played both offense and defense in the game. He accounted for all of Ramona's points. And he played half of the game with a concussion.
"T.J. took a beating," said Sutton, who was forced to watch the action from the sidelines as he nursed a sprained ankle. "But he got back up from every hit."
Ramona head coach Bob Monk said he would have rested the junior if he had known T.J. was hurt.
"You couldn't tell there was anything wrong with him," Monk said. "T.J.'s always been able to lift himself up. That's all I could see in him that night. He was fighting, grinding and dying to lift his team up, too."
That also describes what T.J. has done this summer. Desperately wanting a college scholarship, and aware that playing on a 0-11 team wouldn't get him the exposure he needs, T.J. attended any football camp that would have him.
That list expanded as the experts saw him perform.
Quarterback guru Tom Martinez, credited as the earliest mentor to New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, saw T.J. for the first time at a Football University camp in San Diego.
The two worked closely, and Martinez recommended T.J. to the Top Gun camp in Williamsburg, Va. It's one of the largest high school football camps in the nation.
While there, T.J. threw a pair of touchdown passes to Barry Sanders Jr., the heavily recruited son of Hall of Fame NFL running back Barry Sanders. T.J. returned to Riverside to find the college scouts had picked up his scent.
On his voicemail, there was a message from Joe Villapiano. The Harvard assistant coach wanted to fly to Riverside to meet him and his family.
Back in the Ramona locker room, T.J. paused, recalling the conversation. He tossed the football to himself.
"It's been crazy," T.J. said. "I never thought anything like this could happen to me."
T.J.'s parents, Jason and Amy Miller, had him when the two were students at Ramona. Jason was 17 and Amy was 14.
Even at that age, Amy remembers a brief time when she was a devoted mother.
"The first year of T.J.'s life, it was all about me proving I could be a good mom," Amy said. "It didn't matter if I was young. We were going to beat the odds, and everything was going to be OK."
That resolve faltered.
The daughter of a drug addict, a man who she said is still homeless somewhere in Riverside County, Amy sampled methamphetamines for the first time a year after T.J. was born. Her addiction would last until T.J. became a teenager. Jason had been using since before T.J.'s birth.
Both Amy and Jason have spent time in prison.
The couple moved between Riverside, Moreno Valley and Montana for the better part of five years. They had Tyler and were trying to find a place where they could stay clean and raise their family. Eventually, Amy and Jason separated.
Amy remarried, but life for T.J. and Tyler did not improve.
Amy's drug use increased, and her new relationship grew abusive. But even when things were at their worst, Amy said, T.J. was starting to show the world his best.
"It's like he's from another planet," Amy said. "When I was going through everything, he would hold my hand and tell me not to cry. He would say, 'Do whatever you want, Mommy, just don't cry.' "
All these years later, T.J. still isn't ready to say his parents failed him. Instead he asks: "What would you do if you had a kid when you were their age?
"My parents were young. They needed to grow up. And they have," he said.
That perspective seems unusual for a teenager. Had it not been for his grandparents Lynette and Bill Miller, Jason's mother and stepfather, T.J. may have never had the chance to develop such wisdom.
Lynette and Bill took guardianship of T.J. and Tyler when the two were 8 and 4 years old. Lynette remembers the day when she and her husband decided to act.
They had come to T.J.'s school to surprise him on his birthday and ended up in shock. Their grandson, wearing a dirty T-shirt and no socks, looked up at them with tears in his eyes.
Lynette said her mind was made up before she left the classroom. Bill could go back to work, and she would become the mother her grandsons needed.
"We had to step up and help those boys," she said. Amy agreed and placed her children in her mother-in-law's outstretched arms.
T.J. never wonders where he and his brother would be without his grandparents. He already knows.
"They were our rock for six years," T.J. said. "Without them, me and Tyler wouldn't have anything."
Not even their names.
The "Miller" surname came from Bill, a man who shares no bloodlines with them. Sitting at the home where T.J. and Tyler did much of their growing up, Lynette smiled at Bill when he was asked if he could see himself in T.J.
Bill, a retired police officer, had no problem going back to work repairing furniture at the age of 65 when the couple needed money to once again raise children.
"I've always been of the opinion that you do what you have to do," Bill said. "Those boys needed our help, and we were happy to give it."
And like T.J., Bill hasn't given up on Jason — not even after his stepson spent 20 years at odds with or on the run from the Riverside Police Department, Bill's employer for three decades. He said a sense of peace came over him when he first heard Jason was going to jail.
"He was off the streets," Bill said. "It was the first time in a long time when I knew he was going to be safe."
Hearing himself say that, the 73-year-old admits age might have softened him some. The same can't be said for Lynette, who, at 53, is 20 years her husband's junior.
"If you do something wrong like Jason and Amy have, you need to pay for it," she said.
That was among the principles instilled in T.J. and Tyler by their grandparents.
But getting through to T.J. wasn't always easy. When his mom turned his care over to his grandparents, T.J. had moments of darkness. There were times when he showed a temper.
He remembers his parents telling him they loved him. He remembers wondering when they were going to show it.
"Sometimes it made me sad," T.J. said. "Other times it made me angry."
Luckily for him, Lynette and Bill had patience. They also had an idea where they could channel that pent-up frustration.
David Valenzuela, a coach on one of Riverside's original youth football teams, the Riverside Rams, remembers when he heard he was getting one of the scrappiest kids he'd ever meet.
Seeing the scrawny 12-year-old T.J. at his first practice, the 25-year coach had his doubts. But T.J. became one of four kids to win multiple area championships, something no Riverside program had done in 38 years.
Now an assistant coach at Riverside Poly High School, Valenzuela said his incoming freshmen always hear this story:
During their run to one of those championships, a Rams offensive lineman went down with an injury. Valenzuela worried about how to replace him.
T.J. tugged at his coach's shirt. The smallest kid on the field wanted to play offensive line.
"At that age, everybody wants to run and throw. Not everyone wants to get in the trenches," Valenzuela said. "Whenever guys from that team run into each other, that story always comes up. In all my years of coaching, I don't think I've ever seen a kid make a sacrifice like that."
That fearlessness never faded. Put a defender in his way or a running back in his path and "T.J. would try to knock his teeth out," Valenzuela said.
But as he matured and grew interested in the quarterback position, the youngster took an interest in the game's finer points. His coaches were as happy to teach as T.J. has been to learn.
"He's like a sponge," said Monk, Ramona's coach. "He studies game film for hours. There have been times where coaches have had to kick him out because they were trying to go home."
T.J. carried that thirst for knowledge into the classroom and Ramona's AVID program.
The acronym stands for "advancement via individual determination." Ramona science teacher Kelly Silva said the invitation-only program might as well have been made for T.J.
"When a teacher recommends a student for the program now, I'll ask, 'Is this kid T.J. quality?' " Silva said. "We know if they are, they have a chance to do amazing things."
Back in the locker room, T.J. heard Silva's praise and blushed. He explained that science has "just always come easy." He has never earned anything less than an "A" in his AVID courses.
The hardest part has been picking an academic focus. Currently he's planning to become a plastic surgeon, which will require a pre-med program. He's also thinking about minoring in kinesiology.
"It's constantly changing, though," he laughed.
Could he survive such a course load at an Ivy League school such as Harvard? If anyone from Cambridge, Mass., asks her that question, Silva will express her absolute faith in T.J. and then explain what it would mean to the Ramona community to see him there.
"T.J. is the most determined kid I've seen in 20 years of teaching," Silva said. "To be able to point to him at a place like Harvard would be a more valuable lesson in the power of perseverance to my kids than I could ever teach."
For all his strength, not even T.J. can bend the jail bars that imprison his father.
But after nearly six months, Jason Miller is approaching the end of his sentence at the Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility in Banning — his punishment for a residential burglary at the home of a police officer.
His release date is Friday. When he's alone in his cell, he said he stares at his Bible and asks God how he got so lucky.
If all goes according to plan, he'll be in the stands at Ramona watching T.J. pour his heart out under the lights. The fact his son wants him there brings tears to his eyes.
"I robbed my kids of their childhood, but T.J.'s still in my corner," Jason said. "If there was any good in me before, T.J. brought it out. I owe it to him to be at that game and to find out if there's any good left in me."
A victory Friday would be Ramona's first in nearly two years. T.J. knows it. "The thought of winning that first game has been driving me all summer," he said.
But even the ultimate competitor realizes no football score could show how far he has come.
For the past three years, T.J. has been living with Amy, who's working as a drug counselor. She has been clean for four years. She says she's open to the idea of letting Jason back into her life if he continues his 8-month-old pledge to stay away from drugs.
The household also includes Amy's daughters — T.J.'s two half-sisters — Hosanna, 1, and Elizabeth, 9.
Tyler, now 13, took part in his first youth football practice two weeks ago. "He's going to be better than me one day," T.J. said.
Back in the Ramona locker room, T.J. stared at his reflection in his football helmet. He has fought for a better life, and that is something he owns no matter how many victories or losses come his way.
But on that first Friday in September, he'll finally have something he could never give himself.
"I'll have what I've always wanted," he said. "I'll have my family back."


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Science Fiction Story Ideas – Part 8: Living In Space
Science Fiction Story Ideas
Living in Space
Building a Better World – Artificial Planets
- The world's richest man builds his own artificial planet and moves the headquarters of his company there. When his planet's gravitational pull begins affecting the earth's tides, the President of the United States is pressured to take action.
- Astronauts doing geological surveys discover that the earth's moon is hollow, and they search for a way inside.
- Worried about alien invasion, the Earth's governments collaborate on an ambitious project: the construction of an artificial Decoy Earth.
- A private corporation makes a settlement on a tiny planet. They drill for ore, and use the ore to make steel panels that they use to expand the size of the planet. They turn the planet inside-out, changing it from a natural world to an artificial world.
- Humans settle on a planet and build a civilization. Thousands of years later, the planet begins to leave its orbit and travel to another solar system. Humans discover that the planet is artificial, and the most dangerous weapon in the universe.
- A group of college students discovers that the earth is hollow, and the inside is a colossal nightclub.
- Astronauts exploring distant space encounter an artificial planet. It is entirely made of glass, like one colossal marble. As amazing as this is, it doesn't even compare to the creatures that made it.
- Colonists looking for a new, earth-like planet stumble upon an artificial world, and it looks suspiciously like a colossal computer
- After earth is unable to find a nearby earth-like planet for new colonies, the Space Exploration Corporation decides to build one of their own. They build the planet with a world-wide security system to watch all of the colonists twenty-four hours a day.
- The Space Exploration Corporation invites humans to come to its new, artificial planet where everything is free. After a few years, the colonists start to notice people vanishing, which the SEC blames on alien abductions. But one colonist discovers that the planet is hollow, and the missing colonists have fallen through trap doors and landed inside.
- Astronauts encounter an artificial, alien planet. The artificial planet captures spaceships and strips them for parts, adding the parts to itself and growing larger.
- The universe's most powerful weapon is an artificial planet that can be flown into new solar systems. The planet has no weapons, but it doesn't need any. The planet's added gravitational pull causes earthquakes, hurricanes, tidal waves, and other natural disasters on the attacked worlds.
- Astronauts discover a bizarre alien world. The planet appears to be made of black plastic. One hemisphere is covered in a colossal number eight.
- A global corporation constructs an artificial planet that is like earth, but without any natural disasters, pollution, or other common earth problems. The governments of earth are soon faced with a difficult problem: how to keep earth from becoming a planet-sized ghost town.
The Hills Are Alive – Living Planets
- Astronauts traveling to a new planet keep vanishing. A group of scientists travels out to investigate, and discovers the cause: the planet has been eating them.
- Variation – Earth colonizes a new planet, but the government keeps a dark secret: the planet is alive, and they must sacrifice a few special humans to keep it from devouring all of them.
- A living planet realizes that it is in the path of an oncoming asteroid. It must find a way to save the people living on its surface or risk eternal loneliness.
- A living asteroid falls in love with a spaceship full of traveling colonists.
- After years of having humans land on it and erect buildings and digging holes, Gaznaxx the Living Planet decides to put an end to his torment. He decides to cut off the supply of humans at the source: earth.
- Humans declare war on an alien world, but the aliens are unafraid. The aliens pray to their god, the planet itself.
- Variation – Humans discover a distant, alien world. When some of the aliens vanish, they seem unconcerned. They explain to the humans that the planet is alive and needs to eat them for food. The humans decide that they will take the aliens to a new world, where they won't be eaten, but the aliens refuse to leave and abandon their "god."
- Astronauts exploring a distant world encounter a strange mystery: all of the aliens are male. Soon they discover the solution: the only female on the planet is the planet itself. A living planet is both mother and wife to them all.
What Astronauts Listen to on Their Radios – Space Stations
- The story of earth's first space station to be recognized as an independent nation
- After the solar system is colonized by earth, there are a number of space stations around every world. One of those space stations is Dirty Joe's, an illegal casino and strip club.
- A man becomes trapped on earth's first space station, and decides to use the station's broadcasting equipment to become the most famous DJ in the world.
- A group of astronauts on earth's first space station are visited by what appear to be alien prostitutes.
- In order to create artificial gravity for a space station, a scientist creates a miniature black hole to be kept at its center. Of course, the new technology is not without its dangers…
- Ten astronauts are performing experiments on a space station when their home country is destroyed by sudden war. The astronauts, trapped in space, begin to lust after Rose, the only female of the crew.
- As the space tourism industry grows, more and more hotels are built in orbit around the earth. Aliens decide that taking entire space stations is easier than abducting humans one at a time.
- An asteroid strikes an orbiting hotel, knocking it into space. The space tourists are distraught to discover that no one is coming to rescue them.
- Pirates construct a space station and drag it into orbit around the planet mars. The space station grabs incoming ships of new colonists and strips the ships for parts and sells the colonists into slavery.
- Aliens from an overpopulated planet buy the right to build space stations in orbit around the earth. The space stations are the size of cities, and filled with alien colonists. As the aliens build, it looks like the planet may soon be sealed away behind a solid layer of space stations, and humans will be unable to leave the planet.
- When the space tourism industry becomes big business, entrepreneurs construct an orbiting stadium for the world's first zero gravity sport: rocket ball.
- Earth's most dangerous criminals are trapped in an orbiting prison. That is, until they find a way to escape…
- Orbiting the earth is a gigantic, floating city called Eden II. Millions of people live, work, and play there every day. One morning, a man discovers that he's alone in the city. Everyone has simply disappeared. He gets on the radio and tries to contact earth, but there is no response…
- Secretly, earth has run out of space for landfills. A corporate executive decides to create the world's first orbiting garbage dump.
More than Just Space Pirates – Crime in Space
- When a tourist on an intergalactic voyage is murdered, the killer has all of space to hide the body. The ship's detective must go to great lengths to find the evidence.
- A group of space pirates makes a great living capturing spaceships and selling the colonists into slavery on a distant, alien world. But when the pirate captain discovers the aliens have kidnapped his wife and daughter, he realizes he must rescue the very criminals he helped to imprison.
- Intergalactic smugglers are constantly harassed by the Alliance Police but, somehow, contraband keeps getting through. After a new emperor comes to power, the smugglers face a new challenge: telepathic boarder guards.
- When Earth's political figures travel between worlds, they do so in a convoy of ships. The politicians travel in a small, inconspicuous craft. The biggest craft is actually the home of Jack Royal, Galactic Decoy.
- A man heads back to his planet after a long vacation, only to discover that his home world simply isn't there. The planet has been stolen.
- An insurance company's investigators search for the answer to a strange mystery: a team of space pirates is attacking merchant ships, but they leave their valuable cargo alone. Apparently, they are only interested in the ship's office supplies.
- A gang of intergalactic pirates tracks down a ship full of diamonds. When the ship flies into an asteroid field, the pirates must make a difficult choice: follow, and risk being destroyed by asteroids, or abandon the hunt, and not have enough money for fuel to get back home.
- An explorer discovers a new, earth-like planet and attempts to claim it for himself. Unfortunately, the planet is occupied. The explorer decides to hide all the evidence of the native aliens' technology and language, and to convince the Alliance Authorities that the aliens are mere animals.
There's no place like home – Colonization of Other Planets
- The planet is the only other earth-like planet in the universe, and the inhabitants on earth need it desperately, as earth is about to be destroyed by an asteroid. However, one of the astronauts is a suspected murderer, and wants to keep the location of the planet a secret so he can't be arrested.
- They have to figure out if the alien life on the planet is intelligent before they can start colonization. Unfortunately, they have problems trying to communicate with the aliens – the aliens only communicate by telepathy
- Variation – The aliens only communicate via odor
- The aliens worship the humans as gods, and bring them sacrifices
- The astronauts spend months trying to communicate with the aliens, to no avail. Eventually, they discover that the aliens are actually animatronic puppets, and the entire planet is an alien amusement park.
- At seemingly random moments, the aliens burst into choreographed song and dance numbers. Amazingly, they never do the same one twice.
- The Stone Age aliens need humanity's help to fight enemy tribes
- The aliens are religious, the astronauts convert, bring the religion back to earth
- An astronaut falls in love with a sentient tree
- The planet was cleared of intelligent life by war and disease. However, they are not alone: the entire world is haunted.
- The government wants to start a colony on a new planet. In order to save space on the ship and fuel, scientists genetically engineer a line of six-inch-high people. But some of the tiny people want to stay on earth, and escape the lab…
- After finding what they think is an empty world and building colonies, humans discover that the planet is occupied with intelligent life. The aliens on the planet are the size of ants and their cities have been being crushed by every human to walk the planet. The miniature aliens develop tiny aircraft and get ready for war against the enormous human invaders.
- Astronauts make earth's first contact with intelligent alien life. Unfortunately, the aliens live on an asteroid headed straight for earth.
- Astronauts discover a distant world filled with humanlike aliens. The alien leader is a strange man in a white robe who lives at the top of a mountain. The astronauts soon begin to wonder: is this the god humanity rejected?
- Before Earth can colonize a planet, scientists must determine if it contains "sentient" life. Every time an earthlike planet is discovered, the government changes the definition of "sentient" so that the native aliens do not qualify, and their planet can be taken away from them. Eventually, the legal definition of "sentient" is so strict that fifty percent of human beings no longer qualify.
There's no Place Like Home, but We Can Fix That – Terraforming
Changing a planet's atmosphere, temperature, and environment to make it like the earth.
- The corporation in charge of terriforming a new world holds a contest, and the winner gets to design a continent.
- The story of the man running earth's terraforming project, and what it's like for an ordinary human to design mountain ranges and coastlines. He falls in love with a colonist and designs an island shaped like her.
- Humans spend billions terraforming a planet, then immediately start polluting it, filling it with garbage
- Humans get to work terraforming Mars. In response, the last surviving Martians decide to Marsaform earth.
- Variation – A man discovers that pollution is actually caused by aliens who are trying to transform the earth's environment to be more like their home world.
- The engineers in charge of a terraforming project attempt to design a planet where war would be impossible.
- The story of a group of aliens struggling to adapt as earth's scientists terraform their world.
- The head of a global corporation tries to convince NASA that the last step of terraforming, making a planet earth-like, is filling the new planet with earth-like stores.
- Before a new planet can be terraformed, the government must first hide any evidence that it contains intelligent life.
- Variation – On a new planet, a team of archeologists discovers evidence that the government covered up the existence of intelligent life. When they discover a handful of surviving aliens, they must spread the news to the other colonists before government assassins track them down.
Wars in Space – Humans attack an alien world, and…
- The president has trouble explaining why he's attacking a planet of sentient bunnies
- The planet itself is useless, but the alien inhabitants are made of Blasto, a valuable fuel source
- Humans discover they were predicted in the aliens' bible as their apocalypse
- Earth is nearly out of food, and the aliens taste like coconut shrimp
- Earth soldiers discover that the planet they are to destroy is heaven, literally
- The aliens surrender immediately, and allow themselves to be colonized by humans. The male colonists are dismayed to find that earth women prefer the aliens.
- The aliens are going through the equivalent of earth's Middle Ages. When the earth ships arrive, they attempt to defend themselves with trebuchets and ballistas.
- Earth forces are sent to attack an alien world, but never told why. Days after the planet is conquered, the soldiers discover the truth: the planet is actually a colossal egg. It must be destroyed before the beast inside hatches.
- The humans discover that the aliens are immune to their weapons. All looks lost until one of the soldiers makes an interesting discovery: the aliens are terrified of clowns.
- The aliens have almost no technology, and they plan to stop the war with meditation and chanting.
- The aliens are made of glass and one good punch makes them shatter into a thousand pieces.
- The aliens attempt to bribe the human soldiers into deserting the army. They offer them gold, alien women, free food for life, but nothing seems to work. Finally, one of the aliens discovers what every human really wants…
- The government of earth sends solders to invade a distant planet but, when the soldiers arrive, they find the planet disserted. Or so they think. Soon, the soldiers are attacked by a vicious enemy that none of them can see.
- The aliens, their planet, and everything on it are made of soft, foam rubber. Try as they might, the humans can do nothing to hurt them.
- The aliens resemble gigantic arachnids. Half of the invading ships are caught in colossal spider webs.
- The human soldiers discover that the planet they are to invade looks exactly like the one they left. Their commanders insist that it's an alien world and not actually earth, but the soldiers aren't so sure.
- Variation – The aliens are telepathic, able to look into the humans' minds and memories. The aliens transform themselves into duplicates of the humans' families and friends. The human soldiers know they must follow their orders but, to do so, they must kill what appear to be their own children.


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