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Welcome to our final November YNS Fun Friday!
Our theme this month is Gifts and Giving! If you are stopping by for the first time be sure to check out all the YNS Fun Friday posts as they are filled with lots of inspiration!
The YNS DT have so many wonderful projects for you this week! Be sure to visit the individual DT blogs for more details on their fabulous projects!
On with the show…
This is so CUTE! Love this little gift box!
Yummy gift card holder idea!!! Love it!
I wonder if Ellie's drinking an Eggnog Latte!
Peggy Tool -Snow Fun!
This really is snow fun!!! Super CUTE!
Fabulous! Love the gems on these adorable trees!
Here's a little tag I made featuring the adorable Merry and Bright Reindeer! The tag is made from the YNS Bookmark/Tag die and I've used some yummy YNS Glittered Skittles in the snowflakes!
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Expert Interview Series: Emily McLaughlin of Gathering Green on Locally-Grown Food and Sustainable Living
Emily McLaughlin is the author of Gathering Green, a sustainability blog aimed at the integration of food and the environment. We recently sat down with Emily to discuss locally-grown food and how to embrace a greener lifestyle. Why did...
Emily McLaughlin is the author of Gathering Green, a sustainability blog aimed at the integration of food and the environment. We recently sat down with Emily to discuss locally-grown food and how to embrace a greener lifestyle.
Why did you choose to create this blog?
There are a lot of food blogs, and a lot of "green" blogs, but not so many that look at how our food choices impact our environment. At the beginning, Gathering Green was the place to showcase my Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) share. It was a new experience for me and one I wanted to document.
Over the years, GG has also evolved into a sustainable living blog in general. For example, I've covered topics such as online consignment reviews, which are great ways to avoid sending old clothes to the landfill; and natural and chemical-free cosmetics and personal care product reviews.
As a young professional, how do you think your generation views food and/or cooking?
I try not to make blanket statements about a generation, but it appears the millennial generation thrives on two things; a busy schedule and great food. I know that's true for me personally! Of course, great, home-cooked food doesn't pair well with a packed calendar.
My generation is an increasingly inquisitive one, and food is no exception. We want to know where our food was grown, whether it has pesticides, what type of condition the farmers live in, and how long ago it was picked. I think this is why meal services that deliver ingredients to your door with easy-to-follow instructions are so popular with young professionals.
What exactly is a Community Supported Agriculture project? What benefits are you getting from it?
Community Supported Agriculture (or CSA) isn't a new concept, but it's one that's gaining popularity. CSAs are basically a membership program where you make an advanced payment to the farmer(s) in the form of the seasonal membership price; and in return, you are provided with a weekly box of produce (or eggs, cheese, meat, etc.).
I currently have a CSA through Lancaster Farm Fresh Cooperative where my boyfriend and I get a large box of veggies each week. We paid upfront for the full season in February, and from May-October we will pick up a box of veggies each week. The benefits are reduced grocery bills; cheaper, fresher and more direct organic produce; and the knowledge that I've helped those farmers in a personal way.
Traditional CSAs do take some flexibility in that you don't get to pick specifically what comes in each box; but each pickup site has a swap box so if you really don't want something, you can always swap it out for something else. We currently only have a vegetable share, but there are CSAs for fruit, bread, cheese, meat, even herbal medicines. I find CSAs exciting because I'm pushed to try new veggies and recipes!
How can people do their part to help the environment when it comes to the foods they choose?
You vote every day with your dollars. Where you shop and what you choose to buy sends farmers, lawmakers, and distributors a clear, immediate message. Ideally, you're choosing local, organic produce and meat; but when that's not realistic (which it isn't for us all the time), choose wisely. Start to question why those two traditional chicken breasts are twice as large as the organic ones but $5 cheaper.
I recently started working with a startup out of Seattle, Barn2Door, who is trying to bring the consumer and farmer closer together. By eliminating middlemen and the accompanying pricey markups on produce, we make it easier for farmers to sell local, organic, sustainable produce. Oh, and try doing meatless at least once a week! It's intimidating at first, but if we all cut just a small amount of meat out of our diet, we'd reduce our carbon footprint drastically.
Visitors to Gathering Green would probably expect to see your recipes featuring salads and vegetarian dishes. But your blog also showcases many meat entrees and desserts as well. Do you have a sweet tooth and/or an "inner paleo" as well?
While in an ideal world I'd be vegetarian or vegan, I'm far from it. So I try to showcase what I truly eat. I don't post recipes I haven't personally tried, and I always encourage people to use local, organic produce when possible. Many of my desserts feature baking alternatives (using applesauce instead of oil, or sneaking vegetables into baked goods), but some don't. I don't believe in never indulging; those sorts of restrictive diets have never been my style. I like to think that my inner sweet tooth and inner paleo both try to shine through in their own ways!
Could you share a recipe with us featuring fresh, locally-grown produce?
Summer is the height of produce season and everything is so fresh and (hopefully) local. I love to cook and bake my summer produce as little as possible. A classic way I love to use summer tomatoes is in a caprese salad (slices of mozzarella, tomato, and chopped fresh basil) drizzled with extra-virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar alone or topped on top of toasted French bread.
If you're looking for a great cookout recipe that is free of mayonnaise and heavy dressings, my Mayo-Free Coleslaw with a Red Wine Vinaigrette is a crowd pleaser. It's just shredded or chopped cabbage, carrots, celery, peppers, and onions with a dressing made from red wine (or apple cider vinegar), oil, oregano, salt and pepper, and sugar. So simple - but so, so tasty.
Given the dishes that you like to cook, what is your must-have kitchen tool, utensil, or item?
I, of course, love my food processor and can't live without it! But my recent favorite tool is my handheld citrus juicer. This super-simple gadget squeezes more juice out of lemons and limes than any human hand can. It's been a life saver when making citrus-based chicken marinades, guacamole with lots of lime, or salad dressings. A must have!
Are there any kitchen appliances, gadgets, or other machines that can help someone be more environmentally-friendly?
Eventually, I'd love for every house to have a compost bin. We have a private service that does citywide composting, so it's super easy for us and I'm so thankful for that. Beyond a compost bin, I'd say some good storage bags and containers are vital to a more sustainable kitchen. Even if you have a compost bin to sustainably dispose of food scraps, you still want to waste as little as possible. By keeping your refrigerator, fruit bowl, and pantry organized, you'll know what you have and don't have and what needs to be used up quickly. A disorganized fridge is the fastest way to waste food.
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Episode 173 · November 2nd, 2017 · 2 hrs 35 mins
About this Episode
Gary and Kole load up Transistor and break their way through it, having a very good time in the process. Transistor is still new enough to be a little controversial. People came to it from Bastion, the previous Supergiant game, and didn't know what to make of its semi-turn-based combat and technical aesthetic. If you can reconfigure your expectations, you'll find a game that allows for an absurd degree of player expression through combat verbs. Also, it's an incredibly touching love story.
Gonna be honest, this is the most we've gushed about a game in a long time.
Huge thanks to Jon C. Bird for executive producing this episode!Support Watch Out for Fireballs!


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Thursday, July 28, 2005
Racial Justice and Educational Equity in SF Schools
The Struggle for Racial Justice and Educational Equity in SF Schools
100 years ago the all-white San Francisco Board of Education declared:
"Our children should not be placed in any position where their youthful impressions may be affected by association with pupils of the Mongolian race." [1905, SF Board of Education] .
In response to a 1884 lawsuit brought by Chinese immigrant parents Joseph and Mary Tape challenging the SF School District's racial exclusion of their 8-year old daughter Mamie and other Chinese students from the all-white Spring Valley Elementary School, the School Board and Superintendent set up a separate segregated "Oriental" school where they later sent Japanese, South Asian and other students of color for generations.
Today, one hundred years later, I preside as the President of the San Francisco Board of Education. My key allies on the 7 member Board are teachers Mark Sanchez and Sarah Lipson, both leaders in SF's Green Party and local social justice activists. A 4th board ally is early childhood education expert Norman Yee, a longtime Chinatown community leader who joined the Board earlier this year. We and the various social movements and constituencies we are working with have a daunting task ahead of us as we try to literally swim uphill making progressive policy changes in the downpour of big-business driven laws and dictates from both D.C. and Sacramento and the frustrating internal barriers from bureaucrats in our own district.
The key threats and challenges I see before us include:
Breaking down the ongoing institutionalized racism and economic inequality in the schools
Challenging privatization, big business influence and ongoing de-funding of public education
Ending the growing military recruiting and militarism in schools
Countering the increasing conservative efforts to limit democratic participation, eliminate progressives on school boards and teachers from the decision-making process and maintain a system with very limited participation from parents, students, teachers and grassroots groups
For many educators, 'No Child Left Behind' [NCLB] - the federal education law passed in January 2002 which imposes a punitive high stakes testing system and sets many schools and whole districts up for failure and potential takeover by voucher systems, charter schools and bureaucratic or private management companies control – is the main threat to democratic education as we know it. For an excellent breakdown of NCLB see teacher/activist and Rethinking Schools Editor Stan Karp's "The NCLB Hoax"
[at www.ZMag.org or at www.rethinkingschools.org ].
Harold Berlak, a senior research fellow with the Applied Research Center in Oakland, breaks down how CA's state 'accountability' and high stakes testing system [including the CA High School Exit Exam] fits hand in hand with NCLB and the big business agenda. "NCLB as well as state policies that mandate standardized testing technology tied to prescribed curriculum undermines democratic values and cultural diversity," he says.
"At the core of democracy is the commitment that ordinary people should be able to exercise their right to participate fully in making decisions that affect their lives and the life of their communities. This includes control over the public schools that educate their children. No Child Left Behind and state standardized testing mandates shift political control of schools from local communities, local governing boards, parents and teachers to state and federal governments bureaucrats, test experts, and private contractors, who are distant from classrooms and everyday school life. " For Berlak's primer on NCLB and CA's testing system see Berlak Analysis .
Author/activist Kathy Emery, longtime teacher/writer Susan Ohanian and others have laid out a troubling picture of how NCLB is only the "latest manifestation" of a campaign begun in a 1989 corporate-politico education summit which brought together a 'Business Roundtable' of the top 300 CEO's in the U.S. to develop a strategy to transform public education in the corporate image.
For a lively and insightful analysis of the origins of the corporate and right wing assault on public schools see "Why is Corporate America Bashing Our Public Schools?" by Kathy Emery and Susan Ohanian [Heinemann, 2004] and see other articles by Emery at
According to Emery by 1995, this 'Business Roundtable' had redefined its agenda to include "nine essential components" and by 2000 they had managed to create an "interlocking network of business associations, corporate foundations, governor's associations, non-profits and educational institutions" that had successfully persuaded their state legislatures to adopt the first three components of their high stakes testing agenda. Emery suggests that the NCLB is "merely a more draconian version of California's 1999 Public School Accountability Act" which began our state's system of high stakes testing and 'standards-based reforms'.
One other danger or pitfall progressive school board members and activists need to be wary of is what Rethinking Schools Editor Barbara Minor calls "foundation-driven reforms" from sources such as the Wal-Mart backed Walton Family Foundation, Billionaire Eli Broad's Los Angeles-based Broad Foundation, and Bill Gates' Gates Foundation.
Minor warns that education reform initiatives around the country – "from small schools to vouchers to pay-for-performance to charters – are often instituted not because the community demanded them, but because some foundation decided to fund the initiatives." Conservatives have been partially adept at claiming the reforms came from the bottom up, she says.
The big business and right wing assaults don't only threaten the nuts and bolts of our existing public school system. They threaten more fundamentally what former 60's new left leader turned education professor William Ayers calls a vision of education that "embraces as principle and overarching, the aspiration of the people to become more fully human [encouraging] us towards further knowledge, enlightenment, human community, toward liberation." That struggle for an educational system that supports the "humanization" of students and invites their transformation is what is at stake today in SF schools and throughout the country.
Racial and Economic Justice in SF Schools
Some 50 years after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision [ending segregation] and 30 years after the lesser known Lau v. Nichols decision [supporting bilingual education/language equality and the needs of English learners] our San Francisco schools, like most schools throughout the country, are still very unequal in terms of race, class and immigration status of the students. The UCLA based researcher that monitors SF's progress towards integration and racial equality in August 2003 reported that more than 40 of San Francisco's 119 public schools have "severely resegregated" and cautioned against "a continuing slide toward additional resegregation."
The Board faces a key historic decision in the next term that will impact our ongoing struggle against 'resegregation', and for racial and economic justice in student assignment and redistribution of resources for educational equity in our district.
The SFUSD Consent Decree which came about in 1983 as the result of the NAACP lawsuit from 1978 [and several decades of struggle before that time] is set to sunset on Dec. 31, 2005 though the policy will continue through the end of June 2006 and the $40 million per year from the state for desegregation efforts in SFUSD [out of our total $600 million budget] will continue after that date.
Our district is very far off from the goals of the Consent Decree and our efforts to eliminate the 'vestiges' of discrimination in our schools. And, unfortunately, 51 years after the Brown decision, we have made little if any progress in closing the achievement gap and ensuring equal educational opportunities for African American, Latino and English learner students in our district. Nonetheless, the courts will be letting our district off the legal hook for ensuring equity and diversity in our classrooms. So parents, teachers, students and community groups have to keep the pressure on the district to maintain our historic commitment to educational justice in our public schools.
In the next few months the Board will to discuss and choose a new student assignment plan. The future of what our SF schools will look like demographically depends in large part on the Board's action this coming session.
Involvement thus far has been mostly limited to insiders, legal and academic 'experts' and district bureaucrats with even very low level involvement from the mainstream parent organizations like the PTA and almost no involvement from grassroots parent groups or the teacher's union United Educators of SF [UESF].
Key is the new board's ability to maintain our commitment to racial and economic justice and redistribution of resources to bring about educational equity while acknowledging the changed demographics of the post-desegregation era. To get involved - contact: Teachers for Social Justice [ www.t4sj.org ]; Parents for Public Schools [ www.ppssf.org ];
Chinese for Affirmative Action [ www.caasf.org ] or
Youth Making a Change [Y-MAC] [ www.colemanadvocates.org ].
Key Opportunities
for Racial Justice
and Educational Equity
in our Schools
If Malcolm X was correct that "the future belongs to those that prepare for it today," then we teachers, parents, students, and grassroots community folks in SF, Oakland, Richmond and other urban districts may be in even more serious trouble down the road unless we start taking advantage of key movement building opportunities that are currently before us.
It seems to me, the key opportunities for our work today include:
Supporting grassroots parent and student organizing at the local community level
Strengthening parent/teacher/community alliances, especially in low income communities
Building broader/deeper/more visionary coalitions among the scattered
and relatively weak single-issue groups
Developing an educational justice vision and movement that can connect progressive school reforms with other social and human needs
Organizations that are building our multiracial
movement for educational justice:
Teachers for Social Justice - October 15th 2005 conference -
United Educators of SF – Peace, Justice and Human Rights
Committee – www.uesf.org
SF People's Organization - Education Caucus www.sfpeople.org
Books Not Bars www.booksnotbars.org
Californians for Justice – www.caljustice.org
Applied Research Center – www.arc.org
Education Not Incarceration - www.ednotinc.org
College Not Combat – www.collegenotcombat.org
SF Organizing Project – www.sfop.org
ACORN – www.acorn.org
Coleman Advocates/Parent Advocates for Youth/Youth
Making a Change
National Coalition of Education Activists –
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Go There Once, Be There Twice
March 03, 2011 by Ed Violick
Sammy's new dvd Go There Once, Be There Twice is being shown April 16 at the Lake Arrowhead, CA Film Festival. After the show Sammy and the director will be doing a Q&A. After that there is an after party where he will hopefully perform. Tickets went on sale 2 days ago for $25. I'm wondering why this information wasn't posted on this website???
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Simone, your poems are like bright lights, and all the words like bulbs, emitting hope and life.
James Fraser
Very powerful indeed. Everyone must master their own lives like this. Very good message and I am looking forward to reading more...
Kevin Elmore
So simple a truth, so profoundly expressed
William A Cleator
Beautiful and inspirational
Audrey Carey
Hi Simone the poem 'What you see in the Mirror' is truly powerful medicine for the soul...
Dean Masciarelli
Simone Segal Author of The Gift if only you knew
Welcome to enlightenment.
There seems to be some confusion about the law of attraction. While wishing, visualizing, dreaming, or praying, you are creating the first step of the law, "thought". It is only by "Acting" on your "thoughts" that turn them into reality. The law of attraction is a "term" used to explain the true meaning of the law. The true meaning being "We Become What We Think About" Which then leads us to thought vibration. Everything in the universe is energy vibrating at different levels, every single thing from the moon to a tree, to your dog, a ball, your thoughts and all are all vibrating in different frequencies, ranging from high to low, and it is YOU who gets to decide which frequency to be in. Your thoughts, which create your vibrations, put YOU in a High or low frequency state, whether you "Know" it or not, you are indeed picking up universal frequencies, tapping in with every thought.
In my book, "The Gift if only you knew" if only you knew means, if only you knew, that YOU have a choice of creating great thoughts, great actions and a great life. You have a choice of "becoming" and creating your life exactly as you wish it to be.
You CAN take the option of which vibration to be in no matter what situation you are in. If you are wishing, you know that place, the vibration radio station, I wish upon a star, that place where everyone is wishing and will continue to wish as long as they keep wishing! Hah, if only you knew! Wishing upon that star, you will always be wishing upon that star, because you have tuned into the vibration wishing frequency, and YOU WILL wish away for ever!
This I feel is where the confusion lies!
"We Become What We Think About"
Now, take a very close look at the word "Become" In fact, stare at it for a while and THINK, what does the word "become" actually mean? It means "to come into Being"!
It is you, Being, and taking action on your thoughts that create the high energy vibration of joyful magic, or the low energy vibration of misery and ill health in your life. With thought alone you are, and always will be dreaming, in a visualizing slumber, of maybe a blissful beautiful dream, or a never ending nightmare!
Did you know that, You, have created your life, up until this very moment, with every single thought, that's lead You to every single action creating your every day, whether You were conscious of this fact or not.
I often wonder how, and why on earth do some people expect to just visualise with all the faith and belief in the world and god, that, visualising alone, will manifest dreams into reality.
Whomever you are praying to, I'm sure would be looking at you, thinking, great, wow, visualizing hmmm, now how about getting up and taking some action with all the miraculous capabilities I have granted you with! The Law of Attraction always talks about gratitude; we seem to think gratitude is being thankful for what we have and how we feel, even our wonderful gratitude for nature itself, but where is our gratitude of using the amazing abilities we have been given? Of knowing the miracle you are with an outrageous power to bring forth all your desires! Is life not meant to be about being happy, becoming happy? Have you any idea how happy you would be, to know that you, you yourself achieved all your desires. True happiness lies in being able to create the life of your dreams, love, health, abundance; we are creative human beings, with minds to think and the power to create! When you know the universe loves creation and life, and, has given you, the power to create, the greatest gratitude you could ever have would be to step out your comfort zone and act out the person you want to be, and shine! True gratitude, I feel would be to use our minds, body and spirit to the best of our ability!
Your actions are the true stepping stones of your thoughts, and your dreams that will undoubtedly create your future, and your destiny!
YOU are a living miracle with an enormous potential to being and creating more than you ever thought possible! Would it be so wonderful to sit back nice and cosy, and visualize something into existence if you could, rather than "knowing" you have the power to make it happen? On top of that, how do you think you would feel having accomplished all your desires, turning them into reality all by yourself, how would you feel? It's time to get busy! It's time to wake up, it's time to "come into Being" Becoming, the person you want to be, and doing the things you want to do. No one can tell you, not even me, you cannot believe me if you truly wish to "know".
Visualizing, hope and belief are the starting point, or can "Become" just things to hang on to; faith and believing are in my opinion, disbelief.
The key is to "Know"! The only way of knowing is to Think inspired thoughts, act upon them to the best of your ability, Mind, Body and Spirit, and see for yourself!
I love it. Just become, never to end the pursuit, because one truly believes it is to be... To become.
I say, "Go past the point which, is were most quit... For in the extra mile is where one finds reward" (LaRue, 2009). The reward is found where we believe with our heart and soul it is to be found. Our conquest is to then go to that place beyond all barriers and complications; therefore, not merely dreaming but pursuing the dream until manifestation of such. Your words of inspiration are well taken.


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Objectors fighting plans to build a 78-metre-high wind turbine in a Northumberland beauty spot have spoken of their delight after the contentious scheme was refused on appeal.
Zoe Frais, of the Fight The Follions action group, said the decision to boot out the turbine – earmarked for land associated with Follions Farm, north west of Thropton – was a victory for local people.
She added: "It would have affected local people and the decision shows that we have been listened to and heard. The county's countryside is our greatest asset and we must protect it."
The original scheme sparked mass objection and was refused in August by Northumberland County Council's planning and environment and rights of way committee. The appeal was made by Mark Wisniewski, of applicants Ogden Renewable Energy, soon after. But inspector Louise Crosby said the turbine, due to be sited close to the Northumberland National Park boundary, would have a 'significant detrimental effect on the character of the landscape and a significant adverse effect on the area's visual amenity'.
A costs application by Mr Wisniewski against the county council has been refused.


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Former Lebanese Christian militia chief Samir Geagea left prison on Tuesday after 11 years in jail for crimes committed during the 1975-1990 civil war.
Here are some facts about him:
• Geagea, the only militia chief to be jailed for his role in the civil war, had been serving four life sentences for political murders and other killings during the conflict.
• He was granted amnesty by the newly elected parliament last week.
• He has always said he was a political prisoner victimised for opposing Syria's military role in Lebanon, which ended in April.
• Born on 25 October 1952, the former medical student came to prominence in 1978 when he led a raid on the home of Tony Franjieh, a rival Maronite Christian chieftain who was killed along with his wife, son and others. Geagea was wounded.
• He seized control of the powerful Lebanese Forces (LF) militia in 1986 to stymie a Syrian-negotiated peace pact with Muslim militia chiefs signed by former LF leader Elie Hobeika.
• Despite his hostility to Damascus, Geagea agreed to the Syrian-backed 1989 Taif Accord which ended the civil war after Christian rival General Michel Aoun tried to crush the LF in 1990.
• Geagea remains a hero to many Maronites. Even his civil war foes mostly backed his release, setting aside past animosity for a man they once feared for his military adventures and readiness to ally with Israel to maintain Maronite supremacy.


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Bridge for Developers
Group Leader is Andrew Young
The Bridge for Developers Group meet on Tuesday from 10:30am to 12:30pm at the Fairfield and Howley Community Project in Fairfield Street, Warrington, near to the large Sainsburys. It is for bridge players who are still developing their skills, possibly after attending our Beginners and Improvers courses in previous years.
You do not need to have a Partner. With varying numbers attending each week we do not always have an exact number of tables and therefore players are expected to move round to accommodate this situation. If you are already a player at any level you are very welcome to join us. We play standard ACOL.
Experienced players should expect to play with others who are much less experienced than themselves and should not be critical. Note that there is also a "Bridge for Players" group who meet on Friday and play at the Fairfield Community Project. This is group is for experienced players and play is of a higher standard. Check out our Friday "Bridge for Players" page for more details.


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Vonta Leach and the Death of the Fullback in the NFLJuly 28, 2013
On June 11, the Baltimore Ravens released fullback Vonta Leach, and the fullback position as we have known it officially died.
While there are a handful of traditional fullbacks still around the league, it appears that the position is beginning to change and quite possibly fading out of existence.
The change has been made over the past few seasons, but it now appears that teams no longer value traditional fullbacks. Leach has been without a job since being released, and according to Pro Football Talk, the Ravens are now reportedly considering bringing him back. But he will likely be offered the veteran minimum.
Leach was easily the best fullback in the league, but the fact that he still hasn't signed with a team well over a month after being released means that fullbacks aren't valued like they once were.
The Old Fullback
Less than a decade ago, fullbacks were well known for being bruisers to be used as lead blockers in the run game and being absolute tanks with the ball in their hand—particularly in short-yardage situations.
Some recent traditional fullbacks like William Henderson and Lorenzo Neal were excellent examples of what teams dreamed of. They were able to pave the way for their halfbacks, especially Neal in particular. Neal paved the way for names like Eddie George, Corey Dillon and LaDainian Tomlinson, blocking for a 1,000-yard rusher in 11 straight seasons at one point.
Looking back, there was a sense of change in the league when some of these big bruisers were getting more and more carries. There's not a better example of this than Mike Alstott, the powerful fullback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Alstott came into the NFL after being the all-time leading rusher at Purdue University. He finished with 3,635 yards in his career, including 1,436 yards during his senior season.
The Buccaneers decided to utilize Alstott as a running fullback more than a lead blocker. He finished with over 100 carries for six straight seasons from 1997 to 2002. While he may have only averaged 3.7 yards per carry over his career, he still finished with 5,088 yards and 58 touchdowns.
The "old" fullback is rare now. In 2012, you could point to a few of these guys, most noticeably Leach for the Ravens, Bruce Miller with the San Francisco 49ers and maybe even Henry Hynoski with the New York Giants.
Now, fullbacks are trying to adapt in order to survive.
The New Fullback
It seems that I-formations are being replaced more and more by empty backfields and quarterbacks playing frequently out of the shotgun. Fullbacks are being replaced more and more by athletic tight ends and tougher running backs.
The role of the fullback has seemed to change, and that is most prevalent on teams that tend to be more pass-heavy. These players are now being asked to be more athletic and to be much more versatile than they used to be.
Fullbacks now tend to be guys who can run the ball when needed but are used more in pass protection and as receivers out of the backfield. Perhaps the ultimate example of that would be John Kuhn of the Green Bay Packers.
Kuhn has become a widely popular player with Packers fans, with his name being yelled every time he gets the ball. However, he isn't a true fullback like Leach.
Kuhn has been asked to protect Aaron Rodgers over the past few seasons, coming in on third down and trying to give Rodgers more time. He has been known to go out and catch the ball as well—not being the fastest guy on the field but someone defenses tend to ignore.
These new fullbacks aren't the big guys the NFL has been used to. They've become athletic and versatile players. Marcel Reece, Darrel Young and James Casey have paved the way now as some of the best fullbacks in the league, but they look nothing like the fullbacks of old.
Where is the Fullback Going?
The fullback position is beginning to fade off into the sunset. Leach has drawn very little interest since becoming a free agent, and now he's on the verge of signing for very little. Tom Pelissero of USA Today recently pointed out that there are few fullbacks who are getting paid the big bucks anymore:
It's clear that the traditional fullback has almost completely faded away, and guys like Kuhn are fighting to hold onto a position that's trying to adapt. The future of the position will likely be showcased in Indianapolis, with the Colts implementing a "No Coast Offense" under Pep Hamilton, the new offensive coordinator.
The Colts recently brought in Stanley Havili in a trade with the Philadelphia Eagles. Back in college, Havili was a popular target out of the backfield in the passing game, and the Colts could very well use him the same way.
Kevin Bowen from the Colts' official team website recently tweeted an interesting quote by Andrew Luck heading into training camp:
The Colts have almost never used a fullback over the years. The most popular "fullback" with the Colts was Dan Klecko, who was best known for scoring a touchdown in the 2006 AFC Championship Game against the New England Patriots.
Now, the Colts plan on using fullbacks, and with this new offense they plan on using, it will be able to reveal what the future of the fullback will hold.
Leach was one of the last "pure" fullbacks, and now that he's struggling to find a job, it could mean that the position is on its way out. However, players will continue to adapt, and the coming years will be a good indication of how much longer the position can survive.


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Beyond Social Enterprise – the emergence of societal entrepreneurship
The New Pioneers is the title of a recent book (1) on models of social entrepreneurship by the celebrated Anglo-Danish entrepreneur Tania Ellis. But it could equally act as a heading for the movement of innovators – growing exponentially – who are looking to Captain Kirk-wise 'go boldly…' beyond social entrepreneurship. The term 'societal enterprise' remains relatively unheard in the UK. But it is catching-on elsewhere.
I came across this idea, recently, whilst conducting background for a new research project. That study is looking – jointly with Church Missionary Society – at the pioneering Christian missioners, who have been working for more than a decade on 'new ways of being church' and 'fresh expressions' of Christian community. There is a burgeoning group of radical Christian leaders who see the future of church as within enterprises.
Their idea is not the conventional one, which is to spin-off enterprises from the local church. Instead, they see the enterprise as the church. No religious building, congregation, services or collections. Church becomes embedded (incarnated, in their language) through the activity of entrepreneurial Christian communities. Sounds weird? Well, our research will, hopefully, uncover the realities. But, whilst church may not be everyone's thing, the idea of establishing enterprises with a radical 'kingdom' alternative is developing.
The Winner Builds It All
The bigger issue is the principles upon which the notion of societal entrepreneurship is founded. The term seems to have arisen in Sweden (2). As ever, rule Number One, for my students, applies: if you want to understand what this model of social enterprise is all about – amongst the dozens of competing ones – look at the context.
Sweden – and much of Scandinavia – operates a social democratic contract in which it is assumed that the state will deal with social problems, in return for higher taxation within civil society. On that basis 'social enterprise' sounds like paternalism, charity or an abnegation of duty by statutory authorities (3). This may appear strange to contemporary Anglo-Saxons (the slightly pejorative term used for Brits and Americans in some parts of Continental Europe). We have long-since sacrificed the principles of an all-encompassing welfare state – from cradle-to-grave – on the altar of "deficit-reduction" (4). Consequently, we see social enterprises as a necessary form of new hybrid business, with social functions yoked to financial sustainability, facilitating the marketplace to innovate in finding solutions to society's problems.
As Alex Nicholls (5) points out, in the conventional Anglo-Saxon model there is a tendency to create 'heroic pioneers' (the Branson phenomenon), who divert attention away from the critical issue of challenging – and changing, even when the heroes might wish to – the context in which social problems arise. But the era of mutual self-congratulation is shifting, to one where new entrepreneurs are as interested in changing society and bringing about social justice as in cleaning-up after the failures of capitalism. Hence, societal entrepreneurship – where instead of the winner taking it all, she wants to build it all, afresh. Sounds like the cue for a Swedish song.
Reality or rhetoric?
The danger is that this is simply a fancy, terminological debate – new models for what we've already understood. This is by no means to decry the brilliance of one million social entrepreneurs worldwide, who believe in changing society 'one cup of coffee or brick at a time'. But, there appear to be some examples of societal entrepreneurship out there.
The Swedish example that Lindhult points to is the distinctive model of science parks and business incubators that have developed across his part of Scandinavia. He argues that the organisation of new venture planning within the region of central Sweden, conceptualised around 'the 7 p's framework' – product, process, person, platform, partners, performance, propogation – has initiated a more societal model of not-for-profit entrepreneurship. Perhaps, an eight 'p' – purpose, which is connected to his notion of partnership – might better explain the significance of this movement.
The key to the 'societal' sobriquet, in this case, seems to be the range of stakeholder and social capital networks that have been developed, to deliver a regional change in capacity-building for social entrepreneurs. It is likely that the Swedes are conceptually ahead of their practice. But, they have contributed an important extension to the debate about hybrid business models, for the purpose of delivering social justice.
A more developed model comes from the Western Cape, South Africa (6), which, again, arises from the activity of the local church. In effect, the model that has been birthed in Simondium is one of harnessing the skills, resources and talents of the existing church congregation, so that they can more effectively engage in entrepreneurial activity, within that predominately agricultural and tourist marketplace of the Western Cape.
This is entrepreneurship-based community development in the making. It remains fledgling but Simondium has travelled some distance. They are seeing the community as fundamentally entrepreneurial. The business of societal change is possible through the local organisation of social enterprise, rather than being based in the activity of a few pioneer heroes.
This brings me to a third and final model to be mentioned here. For some time I have been observing the extension of a range of social enterprises in a small, outer-rural location in the Northern Pennines of England. The communities of Alston, Alston Moor and Nenthead don't seek to attract attention. They may not value being mentioned here. But, they do deserve some concerted investigation.
As is commented in the latest update from the Cybermoor website (7). "For the village which has come together to create a thriving village shop, built its own snowplough and is in the process of saving its Methodist Chapel, Nenthead village has yet another asset which is ready and waiting to be taken advantage of … Nenthead Village Hall, which has stood proudly overlooking the village for almost 200 years!"
And this is only a fraction of the story. In the other villages of this most isolated part of Cumbria there are two award-winning bakeries, a range of community shops, tourist outlets, a social enterprise steam railway, a community ambulance and a leading example of digitally networked social care help for the elderly and vulnerable. The point is that this very developed model has emerged over more than a decade. It is the result of community engagement in changing the social context through ethical business and soci(et)al enterprise.
Fragments of the whole
Societal entrepreneurship is possible and is happening across the world. Other leading examples include Mondragon in the Basque region, Mohammed Yunus' Grameen micro-financing unions, begun in Bangladesh, the Ubuntu drive throughout South Africa, Enova in Mexico and thousands more. As Joseph Schumpeter, the social philosopher, once commented: "Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest."8 One of the latest phenomena of this is the developing movement from social to societal entrepreneurship.
1- Ellis, T, 2010, The New Pioneers – sustainable business success through social innovation and social entrepreneurship, Chichester: John Wiley
2- Gawell, M, Johannisson, B, and Lundqvist, M, 2009, Entrepreneurship in the Name of Society, Stockholm: KK Foundation
3- Erik Lindhult comments that, "An underlying assumption seems to be that "society" should take care of social welfare as a right of citizens. Social entrepreneurship from this perspective tends to have a ring of charity and the uncertain provision of social values based on the generosity of the richer.", 2011, "Soci(et)al Entrepreneurship", 56th Annual ICSB World Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 15-18 June
4- By which is usually meant, net deficit-reduction i.e. a reduction in the rate of increase in Government borrowing, rather than gross reduction, actually bringing the total deficit down. In 2011-12, the UK Coalition Government has presided over an increase in gross deficit from 61% to 65% of GDP.
5- Nicholls, A, 2006 (Ed), Social Entrepreneurship – new models of sustainable social change, Oxford: University Press
6-Swart, I & Orsmond, E, 2011, Making a difference? Societal entrepreneurship and its significance for a practical theological ecclesiology in a local Western Cape context, HTS Teologiese Studies/ Theological Studies, 67(2)
7- http://www.cybermoor.org/ last accessed 30th August, 2012.
Tony Bradley is Director of The SEED Centre at Liverpool Hope Business School, Liverpool Hope University. Tony lectures and writes widely on social enterprise, ethical business and alternative economics. He is an Anglican Priest, former TV Producer and is currently writing a major movie script with its backgrond in the banking crisis. He is married to Carol, and lives with their two daughters and two dogs in the English Lake District.


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|"Fourth Grade/Script"
|"Trapper Keeper/Script"
|"Helen Keller! The Musical/Script"
- The official script for "Trapper Keeper" was released by South Park Studios. It is located here!
- Stan Marsh
- Kyle Broflovski
- Eric Cartman
- Kenny McCormick
- Ms. Crabtree
- BSM-471 (Bill Cosby)
- Mr. Garrison
- Liane Cartman
- Rosie O'Donnell
- Jesse Jackson
- Ike Broflovski
- Filmore Anderson
- Kindergarteners
- Jenny
- Sally Bands
- Billy Harris
- Flora
- Officer Barbrady
- Two Cheyenne Mountain security guards
- Townsfolk
|Trapper Keeper
|Bus Stop. Stan and Kenny wait patiently. Kyle and Ike walk up. Ike is dressed in a little business suit and his hair is combed
|Dude, what's your little brother doing here?
|Ike is starting his first day of kindergarten.
|But isn't he only three years old?
|Yeah, but he's some kind of genius, so he's getting advanced placement in kindergarten.
|I pooped my pants.
|[moves Ike aside and shows his folder] But dude, check out my new Trapper Keeper. [opens it up and displays the inside] It has five different compartments for each subject in school, [closes it and shows off the covers] and it's all covered with pictures from Dawson's Creek.
|[walks up with his own folder] Hey, dudes. Check out my sweet Dawson's Creek Trapper Keeper Ultra Keeper Futura 2000. [slight pause. Kyle reacts] Yeah, well, [opens his up] it's got ten different compartments for every subject in school, an electronic pencil sharpener, four plastic bags with electronic zippers, copy machine, fax, a better picture of Dawson's Creek on the back than Kyle's, [opens it up again] flat-screen TV, and of course, OnStar.
|Wow, cool!
|Goddammit, Cartman! You only got that because you knew my mom would buy it for me!
|Oh, but you have a Trapper Keepe-- Oh, you got the little Crapper Keeper, didn't you? Well, at least your stupid brother got a briefcase.
|He's going to kindergarten because he's a genius!
|He's not a genius; he's a little douchebag.
|I pooped my pants!
|He's smarter than you, fat boy! I don't even know how you made it into fourth grade! I thought--
|Trapper Keeper, I need to drown out my annoying friend. Please initiate music, country, high volume. [soft music plays and Cartman starts to dance]
|Nobody gives a crap about your Trapper Keeper, Cartman! [music continues, and the bus rolls up]
|School bus. The boys take their seats. Cartman and Kenny sit behind Kyle, Stan, and Ike. Stan, Kyle and Kenny notice a disheveled man on the other side of the bus
|Ms. Crabtree, there's another creepy homeless guy on the bus.
|Sit down and shut up!!
|But they smell like pee.
|[in European accent] I am not a homeless person. I am a new fourth-grade student.
|You are?
|Yes! My name is Bill. Bill Cosby.
|Aren't you a little old to be in grade school?
|I was held back ten human grades. [grimaces and grunts] I mean, grades. Do you companion-friends know Eric Cartman?
|Yeah, that's me.
|Eric Cartman? And you have a Dawson's Creek Trapper Keeper Futura S 2000?
|Yeahhh, you already know about it?
|Yes. Yes, I do.
|Well... [mocking] "Nobody gives a crap about your Trapper Keeper, Cartman!"
|I'm gonna shove that thing up your ass!
|Dude, do you really care if Cartman has something that's better than yours?
|No, I don't! I don't care!
|[stick the notebook out] Here, Kyle. [Bill stares at Cartman's Trapper Keeper]
|South Park Elementary, kindergarten room. The room appears festive, the wall adorned with a beaming sun with rays coming from it, rolling hills with trees here and there. The kids enter and take their places at the round table. Two miffed boys stand by the door as Ike enters the room
|Hey, there he is. That's the kid that's s'posed to be some kind of genius.
|Yeah, he's only three and he's already in kindergarten.
|Come on. [The two boys walk up to Ike and sit on the chairs on either side of him] So, you think you're smarter than the rest of us? Do you think you know more about the world just because you are only 3 and we're 5?
|Unkoo baba.
|[enters the room] Okay, children, let's take our seats. [closes the door and approaches the table] My name is Mr. Garrison, and I'm the new kindergarten teacher. I used to be the third grade teacher, but I had a little [wags the index and ring finger of each hand] "nervous breakdown" and went into the mountains where I lived off of "rat carcasses". [a view of some of the kids' reactions] But I'm all better now, and the school was nice enough to let me go on teaching, as long as it was for kindergarten. [a view of other kids' reactions] But it's not a demotion. No. I mean, just because a teacher was teaching third grade and now is teaching kindergarten, that's not a demotion, is it? [the kids look confused] No, that's right, it's not. Well, let's start with roll call. Uh, let's see. Filmore Anderson?
|Sally Bands?
|Ike Broflovski?
|Cookie Monster.
|Broflovski, I had your older brother Kyle in my third-grade class. He's a very smart kid. I'm sure you are, too. [Fillmore and his friend glare at Ike] Well that's bad news for everybody else, because I will be grading you all on a curve. [Ike looks at Filmore and friend and starts to sink in his seat]
|South Park Elementary, fourth grade room. The class is present, along with "Bill Cosby" Cartman elaborates on the wonderful attributes of his Trapper Keeper
|And so the other thing that makes my Trapper Keeper cooler than Kyle's is that it can add any peripheral device to itself automatically. [Kyle glares at him with arms crossed.] I can take something as simple as this calculator [a Wellington Bear model] and... Trapper Keeper?
|[its TV screen turns on] Trapper Keeper active.
|Hybrid with Wellington Bear calculator.
|Ready for hybrid. [Two cables reach out and grab the calculator and pull it into a ready slot. Cartman closes the Trapper Keeper]
|And now it can use Wellington Bear calculator, too.
|[reaches over Cartman's shoulder] May I hold your Trapper Keeper?
|Uh, n-no, I'm afraid not, Bill Cosby, because it is coded to the prints on my fingers. [wiggles them outstretched] If anybody but me tries to hold it, big metal spikes come out and pierce through their hands.
|Oh, you are so full of crap, Cartman! Metal spikes will not come out!
|Oh really? [hands the folder over to Kyle] Then, why don't you hold it? [Kyle looks at it in Cartman's outstretched hand.] Well, go on, Kyle. If it doesn't have metal spikes, then hold it. [inches closer and whispers] Hold it.
|I'm gonna!
|[inches closer and whispers] Hold it.
|I will!
|South Park Elementary, kindergarten room. Mr. Garrison is telling his life story to the kids
|And that's how the relationship with my father sort of ended. There's still some sort of skeletons in the closet, but things between us are a little better. [some of the kids are stunned. Garrison starts writing on the board] Okay, children, well now it's time for us to elect a class president, [writes up "KINDERGARTEN CLASS PRESIDENT" on the chalkboard and underlines it] so first we must pick nominees. [turns and faces the class] Who would like to nominate someone?
|I nominate Filmore, because he's the smartest kid in the class.
|Okay, Filmore. [writes the name on the board] You'll be our first nominee. And who else? [a girl raises her hand] Yes, Jenny.
|I gotta go doodie.
|In a minute, Jenny. Who else wants to nominate a class president? [the kids stay quiet] Oh, come on! You can't have an election with just one person running! What's the fun in that? Ike? How about you? You're a genius.
|[looks at an angry Fillmore and friend] No.
|Okay, our second nominee is Ike the genius. [writes the name up on the board. Filmore and friend stare at a chagrined Ike] Okay, children, now we'll hear briefly from each nominee. Filmore, why don't you go first?
|[leaves his seat, approaches the board, and faces the class] If I'm elected class president, I'll call for big ol' chairs. And on Fridays, I'll add two minutes to nap time. Thank you. [returns to his seat]
|Very enthralling. Okay, Ike? How about you?
|[leaves his seat, approaches the board, and faces the class] Cookie Monster. Ice.
|...Well, this is gonna be a tough one, kids.
|South Park Elementary, playground. The four boys stand around the tetherball pole while two kids in front of them toss a football, two girls walk by behind them, another kid climbs the jungle gym, and another rocks on a hobby elephant
|Oh, no, dude, here comes that weird new kid.
|Ahhh, hello Eric. Can I be your human friend? [winces] I mean, friend?
|I don't know, dude. I'm not supposed to have any male friends that are over 30. I kind of screwed on that once.
|Please. We can have fun and play games, like human four square-- [coughs up] I mean, four square.
|Dude, you can't just ask to be somebody's friend and be their friend; it doesn't work that way. If you want to be my friend, you'll have to pay me.
|Oh, I see. Alright, I'll pay 100 geliga stones-- Uh, I mean, human dollars! Eugh, I mean dollars!
|Okay, that's cool.
|[holds up the tetherball] Can we play some human tetherball?
|A-alright. Pretty sweet, you guys, getting a hundred bucks to play tetherball with some-- [by this time, "Bill" has pulled away from the pole and Cartman, and has the tether taut and ready to release]
|Serve! [whips the ball at Cartman, knocking him onto his back. The Trapper Keeper falls away and lands next to Kenny. "Bill" makes his move]
|Ugh..! ["Bill" goes after the Trapper Keeper and runs away with it]
|Got it!
|Dude! He's running off with your Trapper Keeper! [just then, spikes come out of the Trapper Keeper and some of them go clear through "Bill's" hands.]
|[stops and looks at his pierced hands] Waa-agggh! [clenches his teeth and continues running]
|You son of a bitch! [recalls something] Wait a minute. [whips out a small gadget and activates it] Lucky for me, I have my Trapper Keeper homing device. [walks towards the source of the sound heard in the device and away from his friends]
|[confused] What the hell just happened?
|[angry] Damn! I thought fourth grade was gonna be different.
|South Park Elementary, Kindergarten. Mr. Garrison tallies up the votes so far on the board...
|So that's six votes for Filmore and six votes for Ike. [sets the chalk down and reads the last ballot] And the last vote is for... Uh, let's see. Flora, I can't tell who you voted for. [Flora, a timid, pretty blond girl trying to bury her face into her laps, which are raised up on the chair, is shown] You've got the winning vote, Flora. Who d'you pick?
|I don't know... [smiles and looks down and away]
|Flora, you have to pick one. Filmore or Ike?
|Um, I vote for... I don't know.
|Oh, great! Flora's undecided! Well, you're just gonna have to sit there, Flora, and think about it until you come up with an answer.
|Flora, just say you vote for Filmore so we can all go home.
|No! You want Ike to be president.
|We're gonna be here all night! Why don't you guys just concede?
|Why don't you just concede?
|Yeah! [the kids start to argue]
|I want Ike to be president! [several kids from Filmore's side rush across the table to kids on Ike's side]
|Oh, for Christ's sakes, you're all acting like a bunch o' kids!
|South Park, day. A police car zooms down the street. Officer Barbrady flies down the road in the police cruiser with Cartman in the passenger seat and Stan, Kyle, and Kenny in the back seat. Cartman has the Trapper Tracker Keeper in his hand and is following the Trapper Keeper's signal on the Tracker's screen
|Turn left here! We're getting close! Get your gun ready!
|Eric, I'm not gonna shoot anybody for taking your school folder.
|[grabs Barbrady's ] It was not a school folder, it was a Dawson's Creek Trapper Keeper Futura S 2000! And if-- [spots "Bill"] There he is!
|[turns to see the cruiser coming his way] Wagh!
|Got ya! [grabs the steering wheel from Barbrady]
|Hey! [Cartman steers the cruiser into a building, crushing "Bill" and rattling the building]
|Gaagghhh! [crumples to the floor. Barbrady and the others exit the car and gather at Bill. His left arm has been amputated, revealing functioning wires. The lower half holding the Trapper Keeper in hand. Barbrady and the boys stare in shock]
|Whoa, dude..!
|End of act one. Time: 7:50
|same time, later...
|Ahh, try to take my Trapper Keeper, will you?
|Please. You do not understand.
|[takes his place] Book him, Barbrady. Another job well done.
|[plaintive] That Trapper Keeper has to be destroyed!
|Why are you so obsessed with Cartman's Trapper Keeper, Bill Cosby?
|Bill Cosby?
|Nooo! Listen to me! I am not really Bill Cosby. [the boys and Barbrady show shock] My name is BSM-471. I am a cyborg engineered by humans from the year 2034.
|Well, I knew you weren't Bill Cosby!
|I have come to destroy that Trapper Keeper, because it was the Dawson's Creek Trapper Keeper that belongs to an Eric Cartman in South Park which three years from now manifests itself into an omnipotent super being, and destroys all of humanity. In the year 2004, a hybrid-assimilating computer linked with a satellite uplink computer. From there it was able to slowly take over every computer in the world. [cables reach out from the Trapper Keeper and engulf two computers. The process continues engulfing all of the US] It became stronger and stronger, until by the year 2018 it broke away from mankind [skulls litter the landscape] and there was nothing the humans could do. [in the distance a Dawson's Creek Trapper Keeper tower rises] It wasn't long before Mighty Trapper Keeper started to destroy everything it saw as useless, including humans. [people are shot left and right from the Trapper Keeper's weapons] The nations tried everything to stop it. [troops line up and fire at the Trapper Keeper] Nuclear devices, seismic missiles. But nothing worked. [robotic tanks come into view, firing away at the Trapper Keeper] The humans built robots of their own, whole armies of them. [DC TK209s approach the advancing armies and fire at them] But nothing was strong enough to stop Trapper Keeper. [the battle scene fades, and BSM-471 is shown once again on the ground] And so finally, the humans decided to send one of their robots into the past to destroy the Trapper Keeper before it even got started.
|Wow, that's amazing.
|Man, I guess sometimes we let our technology and stuff grow too fast.
|What do you think, Officer Barbrady?
|Huh? Oh, I'm sorry. I wasn't listening.
|And so, Eric. Now you see why we must destroy your Trapper Keeper.
|[long pause] You guys. Did I mention that it has a pencil sharpener and a crayon sharpener?
|Cartman, it takes over the world and destroy all of humanity!
|What would you guys have me do, huh?! Walk around with just a plain old Trapper Keeper like Kyle's?! Is that what you want?!
|Aw, damnit! [throws his Trapper Keeper to the ground] Here! Take it! You want my heart as well?! You'll find it on the bottom of your shoes! [walks off to his left sadly]
|South Park Elementary, kindergarten. The class is looking at Flora. Mr. Garrison sits on a chair looking bored
|I decided.
|[jumps up] Oh, thank God, Flora! [gets ready to write] Alright, who do you vote for?
|Umm... Ike.
|[adds the tally to Ike's total] Okay, so then the total is six for Filmore and now seven votes for Ike. Ike is the new class president.
|We want a recount.
|[miffed] What?
|Recount! Recount! Recount! Recount!
|Oh, of all the juvenile things I've ever heard! You lost, Filmore! Don't be such a baby! [Filmore cries and throws a tantrum, pounding away on the classroom table] Alright, alright, I'll count up the ballots again. Okay, we had one vote for Filmore... [writes Filmore's name on the board. A time lapse shows him writing on a crowded board now] ...And this time, I again get six votes for Filmore and seven votes for Ike.
|Count them again.
|No, children! I've recounted 106 times now and I keep coming up with seven to six! Except in the one instance where it came out seven to five, and one where it came out twelve to fourteen. It's over! Ike is class president!
|Wait, there's still that absent kid.
|Yeah. If Carlos is absent, we have to wait for his vote.
|Oh, will you grow up?!
|[clamoring] Absent kids count! Absent kids count! Absent kids count!
|Jesus..! Alright, we'll wait for tomorrow so the absent kid can cast his vote. Now go home! [the kids leave]
|South Park Elementary, hallway, next day.
|Good morning, humans.
|Hey, Bill Cosby.
|I have successfully destroyed Eric Cartman's Trapper Keeper. I broke it apart, dipped the motherboards in acid, burned the memory chips, and sent the wiring to the four corners of Canada.
|That should do it.
|So what are you going to do with your crappy robot life now, Bill Cosby?
|Well, that is a problem that is causing me some disconcernment. I am still here, but I shouldn't be here. If Trapper Keeper has been stopped, then I should not exist. But here I am. Something is still not right.
|[walks up with another Trapper Keeper] Hey, dudes.
|Cartman! You still got a Trapper Keeper!
|Yeah, I'm a genius! Last night I went home and told my mom that I lost the last one. Then I cried and I cried, and finally she felt so bad that she took me to the store and bought me a new one! [holds it up high] So everything worked out.
|[frightened] Oh no!
|Cartman, you dumbass! You can't get a new one!
|Why the hell not?!
|Because if your Trapper Keeper takes over the world, then maybe it was this Trapper Keeper and not the one before!
|Wait... so then you guys burned my last one for no reason!
|We will have to destroy this Trapper Keeper.
|[holds his Trapper Keeper close] But I don't think I can get my mom to buy me another one.
|Don't you get it?! You can't have any Trapper Keepers, fat ass!
|Oh, that is bullcrap! And you know what I think? I think this whole thing is a setup! That's right! Kyle got this guy to say that he's a robot from the future just because he's jealous of my Trapper Keeper! And you know what else? Screw you guys. I'm going home. [moves off to his left]
|Ech! Screw you guys. Home. [walks away]
|Well, that does it! [pull out a pocket phaser from his overcoat and aims it at Cartman]
|Hey! What are you doing?
|I'm afraid I have no other choice. [pulls the phaser back] For the sake of humanity, I have to kill him.
|Oh... Okay.
|Yeah, that's fine. ["Bill" aims the phaser once again] No, wait!
|Can I do it?
|Oh, well, I suppose. [tosses the phaser to Stan]
|[takes it and quickly aims] Sweet! Kiss your ass goodbye, fat boy!
|Wait! [grabs it back] Perhaps there is another way. If you could take me to where Eric Cartman lives, I could try reasoning with his human mother.
|Well, yeah, or we could just kill him.
|Yeah, that'd be faster.
|He's right there.
|I'm afraid I can't. I think I'm actually starting to feel what you humons call "compassion". It is an amazing feeling!
|South Park Elementary, kindergarten. Mr. Garrison stands before the class and begins to speak
|Alright children, as you know, we've been waiting for the absent kid's ballot to come in. Well, his mother was nice enough to bring him in from the hospital so that he could cast his vote. Ms. Harris? [she walks in with a little boy attached to IV bag on a pole. The kid hands him the ballot and coughs out an organ] Thank you very much, Billy. Don't forget to pick up your lung. [Billy starts to walk away, then stops to pick it up] Alright, the absent kid's ballot is for... [reads] Filmore.
|Yay./Hooray. [Mr. Garrison adds Billy's vote to Filmore's tally]
|Wait one minute!
|Oh, Jesus tap-dancing Christ.
|I think the ballot were misleading. Some kids didn't understand whom they were voting for.
|There's a box next to Filmore's name and a box next to Ike's! What's not to understand?
|[pointing at Sally] You're just saying that, 'cause you know you're gonna lose now.
|No, I'm saying that because you are a boogerface!
|Well, just you wait, 'cause my famous aunt is on huh way right now.
|Who's your famous aunt?
|My aunt Rosie, Rosie O'Donnell.
|Your aunt Rosie O'Donnell is coming here?
|Yeah, she's very active in politics. So she's gonna set all this straight.
|[resigned] Oh no..!
|Cartman residence, day, Cartman's room. Cartman sets the Trapper Keeper in a tray, then secures it onto a docking bay and plugs a cable into it
|Sweet. You're so cool, Trapper Keeper. I would never let those assholes take you away.
[singing his own Dawson's Creek theme song] I don't wanna wait for my Trapper Keeper to be over
The ways of my Trap--
|Trapper Keeper ready to ensorb. [cables reach out and grab Cartman's computer like a giant hand, and pull it towards the Trapper Keeper]
|Oh, cool.
|Trapper Keeper, merging. [cables reach out and grab a lamp and a Wellington Bear desk clock]
|[softly] Whoa...
|End of act two. Time: 13:59
|Cartman residence, day, dining room. "Bill" is seated at the head of the table, with Liane and Kenny to his right, and Stan and Kyle to his left
|And so you see, Ms. Cartman, you cannot buy your son Eric another Trapper Keeper. Not now! Not ever!
|Right, because it will hybrid with all those other processors and generate a whole new era of technological darkness.
|Well, I certainly won't buy him anymore, then... Bill. [starts flirting with him]
|Good. Now all that is left to do is destroy the Trapper Keeper Eric has now. Where is he?
|In his room. But, why don't I show you the rest of the house first? [pulls "Bill" from the chair]
|Here we go again.
|Come this way, Billy. [takes him away from the table]
|Well, come on. Let's go upstairs and get Cartman's Trapper Keeper ourselves. [he and Kenny leave the table, with Kyle following]
|Cartman's room. Cartman is getting friendly with his Trapper Keeper
|Kyle is just jealous of you, Trapper Keeper. You kick ass!
I don't wanna let my Trapper Keeper get--
|[knocks on the door] Open up, Cartman! We're taking your Trapper Keeper! [Cartman hops off his chair and dances to the door. He locks it and continues singing]
|Screw you guys, screw you guys
Screw you guys, scr--
|Trapper Keeper, ready to ensorb.
|Huh? [walks towards his computer]
|[in the hallway, pounds on the door] Dammit, Cartman, open up!
|Trapper Keeper, ready for hybrid.
|Oh, sweet. What's it gonna hybrid with now? [cables come from the monitor and grab him] Ugh--!
|[pounds on the door] Cartman, you might as well open up! We're just gonna have Bill Cosby bust the door down after he finishes having sex with your mom. [he and Kyle now notice the groans coming from the room]
|Cartman? [inside, cables wrap tight around his face and go in, transforming his body into a grotesque hybrid, and the hybrid begins to grow] He's not gonna open it. Break it down.
|You break it down!
|Okay. Ready? One, two, three, not it!
|Not it! You lose, Kenny. [he and Kyle quickly step out of the way]
|(Awww..!) [goes to the far wall and then rushes the door, only to be plastered against the far wall...] (Argh--!) [...by the unhinged bedroom door being pushed out by the evolving Trapper Keeper. The boys are frozen in place with mouths open]
|Oh my God, they've killed Kenny!
|You ba--! [the boys make a run for it down the hall and down the stairs as the Trapper Keeper oozes out of Cartman's room]
|Cartman residence, outside. The front door opens and Stan and Kyle rush outside and away
|Agggghhh! [the Trapper Keeper bursts through every window in the house and then the house begins to crumble around it. It collapses in on itself. moves away from the house, leaving "Bill" and Liane in bed fully exposed to the elements]
|[on top] Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah!
|South Park Elementary, kindergarten. Mr. Garrison sits with the class around the table and hears some ominous noise
|What the hell is that? [walks to the window and looks out] Oh my God! What is that thing? Children, there's some huge bulbous monstrosity heading for the classroom! [some of the kids slink down in their seats] Oh my God, it's awful! It's coming for the door. [the doorknob turns and the kindergartners crouch in terror]
|Hello, kids!
|Aunt Rosie!
|[in a panic] Run for your lives, children! [grabs a bat] I'll try to fight it off!
|That's my aunt, Rosie O'Donnell.
|Oh. Oh, um... Pleasure to meet you, Miss Donnell. You're looking... well.
|Don't worry, kids. Everything's gonna be fine. What's the problem?
|Aunt Rosie. We think I won class president.
|No, Ike won.
|Look, it's very simple. We took a vote and the vote tied, so now we gotta come up with a way--
|Well it obviously isn't that simple, is it? I mean, you'd think a little kindergarten teacher could've handled this, but now we're gonna do it my way!
|South Park, outskirts. The Trapper Keeper enters the scene and demolishes the sign
|[now with Cartman's voice] We are Trapper Keeper.
|[on a bluff with Stan and Kyle looking at the Trapper Keeper leave town] Oh no! It is heading for Cheyenne Mountain!
|Why is that bad?
|It was when the Trapper Keeper assimilated with the supercomputer at Cheyenne Mountain that it was able to fuse into all defensive computers!
|Then we have to stop it before it gets there! [leads the others off the bluff and onto a waiting cruiser. "Bill" takes the wheel and Kyle takes the passenger window seat]
|Step on it, Bill Cosby! ["Bill" starts the cruiser and drives off]
|The road to Cheyenne Mountain. All is quiet. Two security guards wait at the entrance reading newspapers. The one wearing glasses looks up
|Hey, Mark, look.
|Wow. That is about the nicest Trapper Keeper I've ever seen. [a police siren is heard, and promptly "Bill" arrives with Stan and Kyle. They hop out of the car and face the Trapper Keeper]
|Cartman, you have to stop!
|We are Trapper Keeper. We are one.
|A part of your friend must still be alive in there. [the three of them study the Trapper Keeper from a distance until Stan finds a ventilation hose coming out of it. Smoke comes out of it, and a fart is heard]
|He is in there.
|That must be what Trapper Keeper is using for ventilation. If one of you could get in there, you could reach the CPU.
|One-two-three, not it!
|Not-- Aw, damnit..! [walks up to the hissing hose and climbs in]
|Interior. Kyle makes his way in and scrambles through a field of organs until he reaches the memory core. The valves open up and suck Kyle into the core. Kyle floats through the core, à la 2001: A Space Odyssey'
|[à la HAL 9000] What are you doing, Kyle?
|I'm going to try and break you away from the computer, Cartman. I need to remove the CPU.
|I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Kyle.
|Screw you, fat ass!
|Hey, screw you.
|Cartman! [hits a wall with a wrench]
|Agh--! [four metallic arms from all directions reach out to trap him, then six more organic ones come in to secure him]
|South Park Elementary, kindergarten. The kids run around arguing with each other and carry signs
|[sits on a chair with Filmore on her lap] Okay, so then what we're going to do is count everybody's vote by hand, and after that, we're gonna go over the votes again manually, and then--
|[throws a fit] Oh, stop it, stop it! Stop i-i-it! [the kids and Rosie look at him] Look kids, we're all in this kindergarten class together. We have to respect one another or else we're in for a terrible school year.
|We're just making sure that the kids that voted for my nephew don't get cheated.
|Half the kids in the class didn't vote for your nephew, so what about them? You don't give a crap about them because they're not on your side! People like you preach tolerance and open-mindedness all the time, but when it comes to Middle America, you think we're all evil and stupid country yokels who need your political enlightenment! Well, just because you're on TV doesn't mean you know crap about the government! Now get your ass back on first class and respect this class's right to make up their own minds! [Rosie and the kids gasp] ...Oh, sorry I got a little off the subject, kids.
|How dare you?! I will not be preached at by a country pumpkin! [heads for the door and stands at the entrance] I'm leaving this podunk town, but in my place I'm gonna send more lawyers, statesmen and press than you have ever seen! [exits and slams the door shut]
|Oh no, children, I think I've just made this a whole lot worse.
|End of act three. Time: 18:58
|South Park, a red sunset. A picture of the four main characters of Dawson's Creek is present. Camera zooms out, revealing Trapper Keeper covering Cheyenne Mountain. A slimy appendage reaches out and grabs a phone both next to two ladies
|Aaghh! [hurry away. The Trapper Keeper absorbs the phone booth, and another of its appendages goes after a police car]
|Wagghh! [hurry away. In the distance "Bill," the two security guards, and Stan watch Trapper Keeper get bigger and bigger. Behind them, the rest of South Park gathers and sees the spectacle]
|Well that does it. I'm gonna have to report this. [whips out a walkie-talkie and starts] Car one to base-- [another appendage reaches down and pulls him up and away] Aghh! [Trapper Keeper swallows him up]
|It is infusing with everything. It is already too powerful to stop!
|Kyle's got to succeed. He's just got to.
|Interior. Kyle struggles to make his way out of the little situation he's in
|I can't reach the CPU.
|Cheyenne Mountain, outside. A limo speeds up to the scene and encounters the Trapper Keeper, which is beginning to look like the tower in "Bill"'s prophecy. Rosie O'Donnell pops out and walks up to it
|What are you doin'?! Get out of my way!
|Oh, no! Now there's two of those things!
|No, I think that other thing is Rosie O'Donnell. [an indecisive appendage hovers over Rosie]
|Huh? Which one? I-It's just like I'm seeing double.
|[to Trapper Keeper] I said, get out of my way! [another appendage wraps around her and tries to pull her in] Aaaaggghhhh!!! [Trapper Keeper swells and heaves, and the fleshy appendage swallows Rosie up] Ogh. Noo-- [the appendage pulls her up and into Trapper Keeper]
|Look! I think that infusing with Rosie O'Donnell has made Trapper Keeper sick.
|Oohh... Bad pie... Bad pie... [begins to deflate and wither. Its appendages wither and begin to drop off as it darkens]
|This is your chance, Kyle! Cartman has weakened!
|Interior. Cartman releases his hold on Kyle and Kyle drops to the floor. He quickly moves to the wall panel containing the CPU and pulls the CPU out along with some memory chips
|Got 'em!
|Cheyenne Mountain, outside. Trapper Keeper turns into a big mass of goo, and Kyle and Cartman are spat out. Rosie ends up half-eaten. Everybody begins to approach Kyle and Cartman
|He did it!
|South Park Elementary, kindergarten. The kids are seated around the round table, and their lawyers stand behind them arguing. Mr. Garrison sits at the head of the table listening
|Okay, children, the lawyers for Ike's side have agreed with the lawyers on Filmore's side to hold another meeting regarding Form 22F. Do we all have that form? [the door opens, and in walks...]
|Is this the kindergarten classroom?
|Jesse Jackson?
|That's right! I believe the African-American in your class were misrepresented!
|[covering his face] We don't have any African-Americans in our class!
|Oh. Bye. [turns and walks out. Filmore raises his hand]
|Alright, so apparently what we're gonna do now is hand-count each person's ballot--
|Mistoreh Garrison, I concede. [Mr. Garrison's jaw drops, as do those of Filmore's lawyers]
|You... yuh, you what?
|I don't wanna play anymore, 'cause this game is stupid.
|Yeah. It doesn't make any sense.
|Ike, you could be class president.
|I pooped my pants!
|[throws up her hands] Can we fingerpaint now?
|[clamoring] Fingerpaint! Fingerpaint!
|Ohuh... Yes. [exults] Yes! Let's fingerpaint!
|Cheyenne Mountain. Stan and the others reach Cartman and Kyle
|You did it, Kyle! [to Cartman] Kyle saved your life, fat ass!
|Look! I'm fading! [begins to fade from view] It must have worked. I don't exist! [disappears]
|Huh, that's a bitch.
|Oh. Well, I guess everything's fine now. So let's go home.
|Hey! Whoa whoa whoa, Cartman! All you've been doing is making fun of Kyle and now he's saved your life! You at least owe him a thank you!
|Awww, man...
|Alright, alright. [sighs] Kyle...
|End of Trapper Keeper
|Story Elements
Dawson's Creek Trapper Keeper Ultra Keeper Futura S 2000 • Bill Cosby (BSM-471) • Jesse Jackson • Rosie O'Donnell • "I Don't Want to Wait"
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Killing trees is bad for the environment, and so is burning stuff for energy. So why would combining the two be anything other a flaming middle finger pointed at our planet? Here's the thinking: Unlike fossil fuels, trees are already part of Earth's carbon cycle. So when you burn a tree, you're only releasing the carbon that the tree had stored up, carbon that would have been released anyway when the tree died and decomposed. That's why the new energy bill that just passed in the Senate—with bipartisan support, no less—includes an amendment saying that biomass should be classified as a carbon neutral energy source.
So does this mean that the Senate has actually made a positive environmental policy decision? No, you crazy optimist. The Senate is just buying into the carbon-accounting loophole that the European Union has been exploiting: Burning wood pellets doesn't actually give you a carbon footprint of zero, it's just a sneaky way to have your cake and eat it too.
Basically, this is just the latest update from the "ketchup is a vegetable" school of science that politicians seem to love. The interest here, though, is the way the science almost works out.
You, me, your dog, the trees in the forest, the rocks in the ground, the Pacific Ocean, are all part of the global carbon cycle: the way carbon gets passed around the planet by processes like respiration and photosynthesis. Forests are a particularly important part of that cycle because they convert the carbon in carbon dioxide into carbohydrates, a form of long-term storage called carbon sequestration. Once it becomes part of the wood, that carbon will stay trapped in a time out for the complete lifecycle of the tree. Which, in our carbon dioxide-saturated world, is pretty important. It's also why your neighbor thinks planting some trees will offset the emissions belching out of their SUV's tailpipe.
Thinking that biomass is carbon neutral takes this a step further. To convert biomass into usable energy, you have to burn wood pellets made of compressed sawdust to generate thermal energy, which power plant turbines convert to mechanical energy, which a generator then turns into electrical energy. Essentially, wood pellets are to biomass what coal is to fossil fuels. If you consider the wood alone, burning a tree as wood pellets can only release the carbon that was already in the tree. That amount goes up into the atmosphere. You plant another tree in its place, that tree sucks the carbon dioxide back down, sequesters it, and boom, you're carbon neutral.
Net zero is theoretically possible. But in the real world? It requires some careful regulations and a long list of qualifiers, none of which this amendment, found in the Energy Policy Modernization Act, takes into account.
Biomass is carbon neutral when you consider the lifecycle of a whole forest, which could be as long as a century, according to Scott Johnstone, Executive Director of the Vermont Energy Investment Corporation, a non-profit dedicated to renewable energy sources. Too bad we need to stop climate change now. And trusting humanity to responsibly cut down trees—taking only mature trees, encouraging understory growth, and replanting—is like trusting kids to responsibly ration their Halloween candy. "It would be great to strengthen the laws around sustainable harvesting," says Johnstone.
And a forest isn't only trees. "A very large percentage of the carbon stored in the forest is actually stored in the soil itself," says Sami Yassa, senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council. "Say you go in and log a forest, take the lumber to a sawmill, and burn only the tops of the branches. That might be carbon neutral. But all of that soil that gets disturbed gets oxidized." Oxidation releases carbon that would otherwise be stored, and a lot of it: According to the US Forest Service, soil can sequester up to twice as much carbon as the aboveground forest ecosystem.
In fact, even the scientists who signed a letter that the amendment's primary sponsor, Senator Susan Collins—a Maine Republican—cites as scientific backing are hedging. "I haven't signed something in support of the Collins Amendment," said Professor James A. Allen, Executive Director of Northern Arizona University's School of Forestry. "I signed a cover letter that outlined general, I think uncontroversial, principles regarding carbon biomass accounting."
That cover letter, which was signed by many scientists, notably does not say that biomass is categorically carbon neutral. And it's the a priori classification that has scientists so worried. Yassa says treating biomass as carbon neutral will erode the gains made by the Clean Power Plan—which puts heavy restrictions on coal use—by up to 11 percent. "You create emissions you're not counting," she says. "And that will contribute to and accelerate climate change and its damaging effects."
And, like almost everything to do with climate change, this policy shift could disproportionately and adversely affect the poor. While its supports will tell you again and again that biomass is the way to go because it's 'carbon better' or 'greener' than fossil fuels, no one is going to claim that it's less expensive. "Price becomes an issue," said Gary Kronrad, Professor of Resource Economics at SFA's Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture. "If the price of electricity goes up, you know who is going to suffer." Economically speaking, the only winners are going to be the landowners, because, as Kronrad points out, "trees are a high value product just standing in the forest."
Except trees don't just stand around doing nothing. And even if it were possible to chop and regrow efficiently enough to make biomass carbon neutral, the forest would only be barely breaking even. In other words, not pulling out the excesses of carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere. So, killing trees, still bad for the environment.


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Our call to action
We are lifting a vibrant call to action for both people of faith and our UN representatives to protect creation and all who share it.
As Christians, we care for the most vulnerable. We're walking in solidarity with our brothers and sisters around the world. We come from the Philippines, the Pacific Islands, and across Europe to stand together for climate justice.
Laudato Si', Pope Francis' encyclical on climate change and ecology, guides our pilgrimage. Laudato Si' is addressed to "all people of good will," and it says that the climate is "a common good, belonging to all." But right now our poorest sisters and brothers, who least contribute to the climate crisis, suffer the worst of its devastation.
Laudato Si' says that "we human beings are united as brothers and sisters on a wonderful pilgrimage." As pilgrims on the road to better care of creation, we call for:
- An ambitious global rule book that ensures a quick end to the fossil fuel era
- A just transition to the clean energy economy
- A new practice of integral ecology by individuals and communities
Read more about our call in our Statement of Purpose.
As The Climate Pilgrimage shares a message of care for creation along 1,500 kilometers of roads and byways, we encourage communities to address our core message and calls to action in the way that best suits their local contexts.
About the pilgrims
Yeb Saño
The Climate Pilgrimage is led by Yeb Saño, the former lead climate negotiator for the Philippines. A few years ago, a mega-storm called Typhoon Hayian (or Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines) hit Yeb's home community. Thousands of people lost their lives. Climate change is making storms like this more and more likely for the Philippines. Since then, Yeb has devoted every waking moment to securing a safer planet for his neighbors and people like them all around the world. He's spent months at sea as a witness to environmental destruction, and he's already walked on one pilgrimage, from Rome to Paris for the Paris climate agreement.
For the entire 1500-kilometer journey, Yeb will be joined by:
- AG Saño (Haiyan Survivor, Philippines)
- Albert Lozada (Philippines)
- Rodne Galicha (Philippines)
- Alan Burns (USA, United Kingdom)
- Patrick Chadwick (United Kingdom, France)
- Sébastien Dumont (France)
- Maica Quitain-Parado (Philippines)
- Berenice Tompkins (USA)
Along sections of the route, additional pilgrims will join:
- Joanna Sustento (Haiyan Survivor, Philippines)
- Nityalila Saulo (Philippines, USA)
- Jane Mellett (Ireland)
- Sr. Dani Brought (USA)
- Bro. Jaazeal Jakosalem (Philippines)
- Sam Inglis (Hong Kong, UK)
- Pacific Climate Warriors representative
The Climate Pilgrimage stands with journeys of hope and justice around the world. Learn more about our sister pilgrimages.
The Climate Pilgrimage is coordinated by an international coalition of partners.
- Global Catholic Climate Movement
- FOCSIV (Federazione Organismi Cristiani Servizio Internazionale Volontario)
- Greenpeace
- eRko (Hnutie kresťanských spoločenstiev detí)
- Koo
- Wigwam/Rural Links
The 2015 pilgrimage
In 2015, Yeb Saño embarked on an international journey to collect witness to the consequences of the climate crisis. The journey culminated in a pilgrimage from Rome to Paris, where the Paris climate talks were being held. Shoes from around the world were collected in Paris to represent real people around the world who face the effects of climate change. Shoes included a pair from Pope Francis.
The Climate Pilgrimage builds on Yeb's 2015 journey of encounter and witness. Along the pilgrims' route from the Vatican to Katowice, they will stop in communities large and small to break bread, share conversations, and build the spirit of solidarity.


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The Yeast Free Diet Plan
The Yeast Free Diet plan or The Candida Diet is a very popular meal plan now. There is a perception that yeast is bad for your health and digestive tract and that it contributes to weight gain. This is partly true.
A type of yeast species called Candida albicans is a natural part of our skin and digestive tract, however, when we have Candida overgrowth, we have a lot of unpleasant symptoms. For example, you may have too much gas or feel bloated all the time.
The Yeast Free Meal Plan will reduce the amount of Candida albicans floating around in your system, and help eliminate bloat or gas caused by this issue. Eliminating excess yeast can help yeast infections and also make your feel better overall.
When Should You Start The Yeast Free Diet?
- If you suffer depression;
- get yeast infections or thrush;
- prone to weight gain;
- get regular headaches or migraines;
- get chronic fatigue;
- get regular bloating;
- have problems with the digestive tract.
The Benefits of The Yeast Free Diet Plan:
- you get slimmer;
- helps headaches, bloating, fatigue or Candida overgrowth;
- is high in fiber;
- you can lose weight
- you eat less junk food and unhealthy meals;
- your skin condition improves;
- this diet is incredibly simple and tasty.
The Disadvantages of The Yeast Free Diet Plan:
- you need to consult with a doctor;
- you shouldn't eat a lot of your favorite products;
- you should reduce sugar, sweets, cakes, fruits, etc with a lot of yeast in them
- you have to eat products only from Foods to Eat List (http://www.thecandidadiet.com/foodstoeat.htm ).
The Features of A Yeast Free Diet Plan:
- you have to follow Foods to Avoid list (http://www.thecandidadiet.com/foodstoavoid.htm );
- you need to drink 1,5-2 liters of water per day.
The Yeast Free Diet: 7 Day Meal Plan
The Yeast Free Diet Plan -Monday
1 cup of warm water with rosemary
1 cup of cooked millet porridge
1 baked zucchini
½ cup boiled chicken
1 cup buckwheat with 2 poached egg
1 cup cooked asparagus
2 cups Brussels sprouts with garlic
1 cup grilled lean mean
The Yeast Free Diet Plan : Tuesday
1 cup of warm water with rosemary
1 cup probiotic yogurt with ½ cup walnuts and cinnamon
1 cup broccoli with, black pepper and sea salt
2 cups baked cauliflower with 2 eggs, garlic, black pepper and sea salt
1 cup peppermint tea
1 cup grilled salmon with 1 tsp olive oil
1 cup cooked quinoa with sea salt
The Yeast Free Diet: Wednesday
1 cup of warm water with rosemary
1 portion of cucumber salad: ½ cup sliced cucumber, ¼ red onion, ¼ tsp sea salt, 1 tbsp apple vinegar, ¼ tsp stevia powder
1 cup cooked oat bran
1 cup kefir
1 baked eggplant with parsley, pepper, and sea salt
1 portion of chicken pot pie (http://www.thecandidadiet.com/chicken-pot-pie/ )
1 cup of Cinnamon Tea
1 ½ cup lean meat with tomatoes and sea salt
1 cup chopped kale with 1 tsp olive oil, pepper and salt
The Yeast Free Diet Plan : Thursday
1 cup of warm water with rosemary
1 cup buckwheat with ½ cup probiotic yogurt with almonds
½ avocado
1 cup of peppermint tea
1 portion of delicious eggs: 3 medium eggs, 1 chopped large red onion, 1 red bell pepper, ½ tsp smoked paprika, ½ cup sliced tomatoes, sea salt, pepper, and parsley
1 cup of cinnamon tea
1 portion of grilled lean meat with ½ cup goat cheese, ½ cup asparagus and basil leaves
1 cup of kefir
The Yeast Free Diet Plan: Friday
1 cup of warm water with rosemary
1 portion of avocado omelet: shallot, garlic, 2 eggs, ½ avocado, some parsley, sea salt, pepper and olive oil
1 cup cooked artichokes
1 sliced cucumber
1 cup of cinnamon tea
1 portion of grilled сhicken with bok choy (http://www.thecandidadiet.com/grilled-chicken-with-bok-choy-in-coconut-milk/ )
1 cup of water with lemon and mint
1 portion of grilled salmon with 1 tsp lemon juice, sea salt, and pepper
½ cup quinoa with seasonings from the Foods to Eat List
The Yeast Free Diet Plan: Saturday
1 cup of warm water with rosemary
½ cup oat bran + ¼ cup unsweetened coconut (chopped) + some coconut oil + ¼ chia seeds + 1-2 tsp stevia powder
1 portion of tomato and Mozzarella salad: 1 cup cherry tomatoes, ½ cup goat Mozzarella, 2 tsp olive oil, basil leaves
1 medium grilled lean meat steak
1 cup cooked zucchini noodles with 1 tsp olive oil, black pepper, sea salt and chopped garlic
2 cups of baked cauliflower with broccoli, celery, garlic, almonds, red pepper flakes and coconut oil
1 cup boiled chicken breast
The Yeast Free Diet Plan: Sunday
1 cup of warm water with rosemary
1 portion of vegetable omelet: 2 eggs, chopped red onion, 1 cup spinach, 1 tbsp chopped walnuts, sea salt, black pepper
1 cup cooked Brussels sprouts with ½ cup probiotic yogurt
1 medium lean meat steak with ½ cup buckwheat
1 cup of peppermint tea
1 portion of cooked sardines
1 portion of salad: ½ chopped avocado, 1 cup chopped cucumbers with lemon juice, parsley, black pepper and sea salt
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The Yeast Free Diet Plan Shopping List
Lemon 2 pieces
Zucchini 900 g
Celery 200 g
Spinach 1 pack
Cherry tomatoes 200 g
Eggplant 400 g
Garlic 1 pack
Basil 1 pack
Tomatoes 400 g
Artichokes 200 g
Parsley 1 pack
Red pepper flakes 1 pack
Scallions 1 pack
Mint 1 pack
Chia seeds 1 pack
Coconut aminos 1 pack
Ginger 1 pack
Turmeric 1 pack
Baby bok choy 300-400 g
Tarragon 1 pack
Shallot 1 pack
Cauliflower 600 g
Asparagus 500 g
Broccoli 400 g
Bell pepper 250 g
Brussels sprouts 600 g
Cucumber 600 g
Red onion 700 g
Leek 1 piece
Avocado 3 pieces
Yellow squash 1 piece
Cinnamon 1 pack
Smoked paprika 1 pack
Almonds 1 pack
Arrowroot 1 pack
Pepper 1 pack
Sea salt 1 pack
Flax seeds 1 pack
Walnuts 100 g
Millet porridge 1 pack
Red chili 1 piece
Buckwheat 1 pack
Oat bran 1 pack
Unsweetened coconut 1 pack
Quinoa 1 pack
Coconut flour 1 pack
Peppermint tea 1 pack
Cinnamon Tea 1 pack
Chicken/chicken breasts 2,2 kg
Lean meat 2,1 kg
Salmon 600-650 g
Sardines 300-350 g
Eggs 11 pieces
Probiotic yogurt 400 g
Goat Mozzarella 100 g
Goat cheese 100 g
Kefir 400 ml
Coconut milk 1,5 l
Olive oil 1 bottle
Coconut oil 1 bottle
Apple vinegar 1 bottle
Stevia powder 1 pack


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WALPA store TOKYO
※There are no parking lots, please use a close coin parking if you came by car.
Tokyo Ebisu
WALPA store TOKYO
From JR Yamanote line "Ebisu Station" west exit cross the Komazawa street and take 6-minute walk
Opening Hours: 11:00 - 19:00
※We will take days off on New Year 's Day and Summer holidays.
※We will be regularly closed on Thursdays from November 9th, 2017. There will be no regular holiday from January 2019.
Charmant coop Ebisu first floor 101, 1-17-2 Ebisunishi Shibuya-ku Tokyo
Tell: 03-6416-3410
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Please check here for informations of the workshop at WALPA store TOKYO.
If you would like to see a catalog or samples please contact us to verify whether we have it or not beforehand.


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Development: "You want answers?"
Marketing: "I think we are entitled to them!"
Development: "You want answers?!"
Marketing: "I want the truth!"
Development: "YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!
Son, we live in a world that requires software. And that software must be built by people with elite skills. Who's going to build it? You, Mr. Marketing? You, Mr. Sales? You, Mr. Finance? You, Mr. Human Resources? I don't think so.
We have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You scoff at our open work areas and you curse our big screen monitors. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what we know - that while the cost of delivering software may be excessive, it drives revenue and saves money. And my very existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, drives BUSINESS!
You don't want to know the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at staff meetings... you want me managing the project. You NEED me managing the project!
We use words like refactoring, test-driven development, continuous integration, sprint, velocity, and release planning. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent delivering something. You use them as a punch line!
I have neither the time nor inclination to explain myself to people who rise and sleep under the very blanket of software I provide and then question the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you log in to a computer and write some code. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to!"
Marketing: "Did you cut the automated, edit sync [insert favorite feature here] feature?"
Development: "I did the job I was hired to do."
Marketing: "Did you cut the automated, edit sync feature?"
Development: "I delivered the release on time."
Marketing: "Did you cut the automated, edit sync feature?"
Development: "You're g%$#@*& right I did!"


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For many, air travel is exciting. Taking that flight, wherever your destination…
Black Box Dentistry – Press Release
The first Black Box Dentistry Course was held on the 17th January 2019 at London Heathrow. The course was attended by 12 dental professionals who all rated the course to be 'excellent'.
The course was co-created by dental and aviation professionals at TurnPoint with a view of providing Dental professionals an insight into Human Factors through an aviation lens. The intention of the course is to facilitate understanding of how humans operate in challenging environments and offer the experience and learning of the aviation industry which has developed effective strategies to manage risky and stressful situations in a systematic way.
Aviation best practice has previously been applied to other healthcare professionals in the NHS such as surgeons, however dentists, to date, have not benefited from these interventions as much. The challenges faced by dentists and dental nurses are unique and we feel that aviation has a lot to offer this industry. As well as highly relevant workshops facilitated by dentists and pilots, the delegates spend time in a flight simulator to give them a true insight into the working environment of pilots and some of the challenges faced.
The next Black Box Dentistry courses will be held on the 1st March and 4th April. These can be booked via our website http://flightpad.co.uk/dentistry/ for an introductory offer of £399 (normal price £499). This discounted rate is available until the 25th January 2019.
We can offer bespoke dates for group bookings and to deliver Black Dentistry Courses at your chosen training location.
For any further queries, contact the team on firstname.lastname@example.com.
This course contributes six hours towards your Continuous Professional Development (CPD).
We would like to thank all of our delegates for attending the course and for all the positive feedback received. We hope you enjoyed the day as much as we did.
You can download the full press release here .


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