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text: 0 Comments Share The Arizona Cardinals were destroyed 58-0 by the Seattle Seahawks Sunday, marking the worst loss in the history of the franchise. It was Arizona's ninth straight loss.Speculation is running wild on a couple of fronts. First, whether or not the Cardinals quit on head coach Ken Whisenhunt, who's coaching seat got noticeably hotter following the loss."I can't comment on that, I have no comment," defensive tackle Darnell Dockett said Monday when asked about whether the confidence in Whisenhunt has faded in recent weeks . Grace expects Greinke trade to have emotional impact – / 17 Dockett was fined a hefty amount by the Cardinals organization last week for his part in an on-field disagreement with teammate Kerry Rhodes over a directive from the coaching staff to let the New York Jets score in the latter stages of the game. Dockett disagreed with the instructions, but it was for naught because Jets running back Shonn Greene fell down on his own short of the goal line, killing the clock in an ugly 7-6 win.Dockett also started the game on the bench as a result, and played in only 55% of the snaps on defense.Following the discipline, Dockett was asked if he's still happy wearing Cardinal red."I don't know, I don't know," he responded. "I'm a hell of a competitor, I love what I do, I take what I do serious and I hold a lot of guys accountable and whatever situation comes my way, I'll be prepared for it." There were many who witnessed the game Sunday that believe the Arizona Cardinals quit as a football team. That group includes Larry Fitzgerald's father, who made the proclamation on Twitter at halftime of the blowout loss."That's his opinion, I can't speak for no one else, I only can speak for Darnell Dockett," he said. "I can only say I didn't quit, and that's the best way I can put it." Former Cardinals kicker Phil Dawson retires The 5: Takeaways from the Coyotes' introduction of Alex Meruelo Derrick Hall satisfied with D-backs' buying and selling Top Stories

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November is Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. Before we dig a bit deeper into pancreatic cancer in this two-part blog post, below are some important stats you should be aware of. According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and American Cancer Society:
- pancreatic cancer is the 4th leading cause of cancer-related death in both men and women in the U.S.
- 1.41% of men and women born today will be diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas at some time during their lifetime
- the median age for diagnosis of pancreatic cancer was 72 years old (based on data from '04-'08)
- the median age of death as a result of pancreatic cancer was 73 years old (based on data from '04-'08)
- 0.53% of men will develop cancer of the pancreas between their 50th and 70th birthdays compared to 0.39% for women
- About 44,030 people (22,050 men and 21,980 women) will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
Pancreatic Cancer Types
According to the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, "A pancreatic cancer type is based on the location of the tumor's origin within the pancreas. More than 95 percent of pancreatic cancers are adenocarcinomas of the exocrine pancreas. Tumors of the endocrine pancreas are much less common and most are benign."
- Acinar Cell Cancers: Acinar cell cancers are tumors that form on the ends of the pancreatic ducts.
- Adenocarcinoma: An adenocarcinoma is a cancer that begins in the cells that line certain internal organs and have secretory properties. In the pancreas, this is a cancer of the exocrine cells that line the pancreatic ducts.
- Cystic Tumors: Cystic tumors derive their name from the presence of fluid filled sacs within the pancreas. The fluid is produced by the lining of abnormal tissues or tumors. These tumors may lead to cancer in some patients; however, most cystic tumors of the pancreas are benign.
- Sarcomas: Sarcomas are tumors that form in the connective tissue that bonds pancreatic cells together and are rare.
Pancreatic Cancer Risk Factors
- Age: Nearly 90% of those with pancreatic cancer are older than 55 years and over 70% are older than 65.
- Gender: Pancreatic cancer incidence rates are higher among men than women, but it is possible that this can be attributed to higher tobacco use incidence rates among men.
- Weight: According to the NCI, "In a pooled analysis of clinical data, higher body mass index was associated with an increased risk of developing pancreatic cancer, independent of other risk factors."
- Cigarette Smoking: According to the American Cancer Society, pancreatic cancer risk is 2-3x higher for smokers than non-smokers. About 20% to 30% of exocrine pancreatic cancer cases are thought to be caused by cigarette smoking.
Next week, we'll follow up with more information on pancreatic cancer, including steps you can take to lower your risk (prevention), symptoms of cancer of the pancreas, and how pancreatic cancer is diagnosed and treated.
In the meantime, if you have questions about pancreatic cancer, please leave them for us in the comments below. All comment responses will be provided by physicians of Emory Healthcare and/or the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University.
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Monday, July 20, 2009
It's My Blog And I'll Bitch If I Want To
Like everyone else, I'm kind of freaking out over BlogHer. I've lost 35 lbs over the last few months so all the nice clothes I have in my closet fit me again. This is a good thing because we definitely don't have the money for me to be buying anything new. Broke doesn't begin to describe it. I'm not quite sure what we're going to do about the money situation. I called the cable company today to have cable shut off. We'll still have internet but no more television. I'll have to start taking the kids to the library to get some dvds for them to watch. They were the only ones who watched it anyway. That Canadian Boy I Married and I mainly watch movies or stuff online. So no more television. It's going to be odd....
I'm going to have to buy an outdoor clothes line, too, to save on electricity. I've got to figure out how else I can save because TCBIM has pretty much told me to stop complaining to him about how broke we are, to just suck it up and get over it; that this is how it's going to be for the next couple of years and he doesn't want to hear anything more about it. Which, y'know, yeah, thanks for the support, but whatever. I'll figure it out on my own and do what I can to cut more corners. I just wish I didn't feel alone in this. It's not that he's not worried - he is - but he doesn't ever want to talk about it, doesn't want to talk about anything bad or depressing or upsetting and it makes me feel very lonely. I tried explaining that to him but he doesn't seem to get it.
Honestly, I have days when I wonder why I got married. I love him but it's like living with an alien. He and I just do not see things the same way a lot of the time and when I try to explain myself, he doesn't understand me. Is it always like this? My first marriage was such a fucked up mess that I don't have anything to compare it to, really. I feel like we just go around and around and around and nothing ever gets sorted out. He throws the cost of my medicines and therapy in my face all the time, to the point that I want to just stop both of them. But he can't stand it when I'm depressed, so I don't know what to do. I know I'm tired of being stuck in this rut with him because it feels like I'll never get out of it.
Sometimes I just want to run away from it all. I'm so tired of feeling like Prometheus.
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- Heidi said...
Bitch away! I'm sorry it all sucks right now. I do hope BlogHer is fun, though. (((hugs))
- 20 July, 2009 14:55
- Zazzy said...
Hey! Some of those 1848 posts are mine! How could you bear to miss the updates on my tomatoes? :-)
I'm glad to see you're still alive but sorry things aren't going better. Congrats on your weight loss and I hope you have fun at BlogHer.
- 20 July, 2009 17:56
- Lara said...
I can't wait to see you and give you a hug at BlogHer. :)
- 20 July, 2009 18:01
- Room 704 said...
We just stopped by to say HAI!!!! And we'll catch you on Friday night at BlogHer!!!
The women of Room 704.
- 20 July, 2009 19:23
- Green-Eyed Momster said...
That's what blogs are for, aren't they? The good and the bad....
All I can say is I self medicated for the first 7 years. I might send you a more private email. If you can stick it out, I think it gets better...but...that being said, life is supposed to be fun. Not a total drag. IMO. If it's not meant to be, you'll know it in your heart!
Have fun at BlogHer and please give Suebob a hug from me.
Sending you big hugs too!
- 20 July, 2009 20:27
- Green-Eyed Momster said...
You might want to check out this guy's blog. His posts are great. I really like this one.
- 20 July, 2009 20:33
- Magpie said...
you are going to run away. to chicago. for fun.
see you there!
- 20 July, 2009 21:11
- elizasmom said...
I got nothing constructive to contribute r.e. your troubles but an I-hear-you and an I-hope-things-change-soon, but I do hope that BlogHer is awesome., I expect a full report at BC in AUgust, yes?
- 20 July, 2009 23:06
- lynn @ human, being said...
The good thing is that in three days you'll be on a mini-break, surrounded by 1000+ women who will commiserate with you. And free booze.
BTW, we cut our satellite for about 6 months last year and while we missed it, we also bonded over board games and walks and movies etc etc. Pretty much everything you'd want to watch is on hulu anyway!
- 21 July, 2009 14:12
- MsPicketToYou said...
you better find me...
- 21 July, 2009 18:14
- Patois42 said...
Bitch away. Whatever makes it better.
- 23 July, 2009 10:00
- Audrey at Barking Mad said...
This, this right here is one of the reasons I wish I was going to BlogHer...and believe me, they are few. I wish I could meet some of the people I most admire and relate to and give them a huge hug!
I hope you're having a great time at BlogHer and connecting with a lot of awesome women...oh, and men too!
I'm sorry to hear things are status quo with TCBIM. Maybe once you're back from BlogHer you two can sort things out. Either that or he'll discover he's a mess without you.
- 24 July, 2009 14:32
- Lili said...
He throws the cost of my medicines and therapy in my face all the time
Dude, that is WAY over the line. Just sayin'.
- 24 July, 2009 17:17


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* Farmers asked to exchange seed containing Duracade trait
* Duracade corn plantings seen below 300,000 acres in U.S.
* Gavilon, in deal with Syngenta, to accept crops with trait
By Tom Polansek
CHICAGO, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Archer Daniels Midland Co , one of the world's top grain traders, said on Friday it will not accept crops containing a new genetically modified Syngenta AG corn trait until major importers approve the strain.
ADM said it will not take any commodity with Syngenta's Agrisure Duracade trait for domestic processing or export, joining rivals Cargill Inc and Bunge Ltd which have signaled they will limit their handling of the product.
Corn seeds containing the Duracade trait are available for planting in the United States for the first time this year after U.S. authorities cleared the strain in 2013. The trait has not been approved for import by China or the European Union, both major buyers of U.S. crops.
"For now, we reserve the right to test deliveries and decline those that contain Duracade," ADM spokeswoman Jackie Anderson told Reuters.
The commercialization of Duracade has split the U.S. farm sector and pitted global grain merchants against Swiss-based Syngenta, the world's largest crop chemicals company. Some U.S. growers have said they want access to the new trait, which is engineered to fight pests called rootworms, while exporters warn it threatens to disrupt trade.
ADM's decision was another blow to Syngenta after Cargill, the top exporter of U.S. grain and oilseeds, said last week it will not accept crops containing Duracade for delivery against export contracts. Bunge has signaled it will not handle crops containing the trait until it is cleared by major overseas buyers.
GMO crops are controversial because critics say they are harmful to the environment and that food made with them can be harmful to humans.
ADM said it was asking farmers to try to exchange any seed they had purchased for planting this spring that was not approved for all major export markets, including China.
"We recognize it's an extra step, but we're confident it's in the best interests of everyone involved in U.S. agriculture," Anderson said of the move.
Syngenta on Thursday said grain trader Gavilon, owned by Marubeni Corp, had agreed to accept Duracade "at market price while providing stewardship and distribution services for producers." Representatives of Syngenta and Gavilon did not immediately respond to questions about the deal on Friday.
The agreement will help balance farmers' access to new seed technology with "maintaining markets for U.S. corn," the National Corn Growers Association said.
Still, grain traders are wary of the new trait following China's rejection of more than 600,000 tonnes of U.S. corn and corn products containing another unauthorized GMO Syngenta corn trait, Agrisure Viptera, since November. Known as MIR 162, the trait has been awaiting Beijing's approval for more than two years.
The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) and North American Export Grain Association last month asked Syngenta to suspend the commercial use of Duracade and MIR 162 in the United States until China and other export markets have granted regulatory approval.
Duracade already has approval from buyers including Mexico, South Korea and Japan.
Syngenta has declined the groups' request, saying the trait will be available in limited quantities and that growers need new technologies. The company has not said how many acres of U.S. farmland it expects to be planted with corn seeds containing Duracade.
During a meeting with NGFA representatives in December, a Syngenta representative estimated Duracade could be grown on as many as 700,000 acres, the association said. However, "recent indications from other sources" indicate plantings may be somewhat less than 300,000 acres, according to the group.
Corn was planted on 95.4 million acres in the United States last year.
Even if corn containing Duracade is planted on a small number of acres, it could accidentally be shipped to China, exporters have said. Varieties are often mixed with each other because they are grown in fields close to each other and then harvested, transported and stored together.
"Accidents happen no matter how rigorous a stewardship program is," NGFA President Randy Gordon said in an interview.


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Schedule | Day 1 Heat Sheet | Seeds
CAMDEN, N.J.—Harvard's unbeaten heavyweight crew to cap a perfect collegiate season with a national title at the 109th Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championships this weekend on the Cooper River.
The Crimson heavyweight varsity eight, second varsity eight and freshman eight all won their events at Eastern Sprints and completed flawless dual seasons with wins against the rival Bulldogs in the 146th Harvard-Yale Regatta. Those boats, along with the open and varsity fours, compete in heats Thursday morning, looking to advance to semifinals Friday and finals Saturday.
Follow From Home
A live, four-camera video stream of the racing can be found here. An audio webcast is available here.
Probable Lineups
Varsity Eight
Cox: Chris Kingston, 8: Patrick Lapage, 7: Jason Phillips, 6: Nick Jordan, 5: Matthew Edstein, 4: Anthony Locke, 3: Michael DiSanto, 2: Josh Hicks, 1: James O'Connor
Second Varsity Eight
Cox: David Fuller, 8: Peter Scholle, 7: Justin Mundt, 6: Benjamin French, 5: Elihu Reynolds, 4: David Wakulich, 3: Jack Morrissey, 2: Parker Washburn, 1: JP Hogan
Freshman Eight
Cox: William Hakim, 8: Andrew Holmes, 7: Jake Sobstyl, 6: Caspar Jopling, 5: Gregory Edwards, 4: Max Monfared, 3: Andrew Reed, 2: Ben Lynton, 1: Jamie Law-Smith
Open Four
Cox: Alex Sopko, 4: Phil Matthews, 3: Conner Griffith, 2: Alex Macintosh, 1: Nick Jaroszewicz
Varsity Four
Cox: Katherine Caputo, 4: Mihailo Malowany, 3: Alex Soutter, 2: Andrew Stein, 1: David Paresky
Last Season
The heavyweight second varsity pulled away from the bottom half of the field in its grand final, beating fourth-place Wisconsin by 3.9 seconds to take the bronze medal as Washington edged Brown for the event win. The Harvard varsity eight crossed the line four-fifths of a second after third-place Cornell and finished 7.2 seconds back of the winning California crew that edged Washington and missed the course record by about one-fifth of a second. The Crimson also placed fourth as a team, trailing Washington, Cal and Cornell.
Harvard's Eastern-champion freshman eight also raced in its grand final, placing fifth. The Crimson won the open four petite final and varsity four third‑level final.
Team Strength
In the four IRA events in which Harvard regularly competes during the season (heavy varsity, second varsity and freshman eights; light varsity eight), Harvard's boats own a combined 30-0 dual-racing record and added eight other race wins and four gold medals at Sprints.
The Crimson won five of the six major races at Sprints, totaled six gold medals and claimed the heavyweight and lightweight Ivy League championships. It was the 13th time Harvard has won gold in both varsity eight races, a feat accomplished only four times by non-Harvard crews. The Crimson won five major races for the sixth time.
Planting Seeds
The Harvard heavyweight varsity eight (7-0 dual record) is seeded third, behind only Washington and California, and is the first of nine straight Eastern teams occupying the third to 11th seeds. The Crimson freshman eight (8-0) and second varsity eight (6-0) are seeded second behind Cal and Washington, respectively. The Crimson lightweight varsity (9-0) enters with a No. 1 national ranking.
Not Done Yet
The IRA regatta marks the end of Harvard's collegiate season, but both the Crimson heavyweight and lightweight teams will send boats to compete in the Henley Royal Regatta June 29-July 3 in Henley-on-Thames, England. The Harvard heavyweight varsity eight won the Ladies' Challenge Plate last year at Henley.
Crimson Champions
Three of the Harvard heavyweights' nine official national championships have come at the IRA regatta: 2003, '04 and '05. The Crimson lightweights have won seven IRA titles. The only schools to sweep the IRA heavy and light crowns are Harvard in 2003 and Princeton in 1998.
Heavyweight IRA History
The first IRA regatta took place in 1895 in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Harvard first rowed at the IRAs in 1896, placing second to Cornell and ahead of Penn and Columbia in a race on the Hudson River. The Crimson raced again in 1897 but did not come back for almost 100 years, in 1995, when it placed fourth in a race won by Brown on the Cooper River.
After an eight-year absence, Harvard returned again in 2003, claiming the Varsity Challenge Cup with an open-water victory over Washington. That helped propel the Crimson to the Ten Eyck Cup, representative of overall team supremacy. The Crimson followed with varsity and team titles in each of the next two seasons. Harvard has also captured IRA gold in the 2004 freshman four, the 2006 second varsity eight and varsity four without coxswain and the 2008 open four events.
A Grand Tradition
In the eight years since returning to the IRA regatta, the Crimson heavyweight varsity has reached the grand final seven times. Harvard tied Stanford for second place in 2007 for its most recent varsity medal.
The Harvard heavyweight varsity eight has defeated its last 13 and 27 of its last 28 dual opponents. The Crimson freshman eight has defeated 35 straight dual opponents since falling to Yale to close the 2006 season.
Heavyweight Varsity Eight
Five oarsmen finish the season in the varsity eight for the second straight year: senior Anthony Locke and juniors Patrick Lapage (Shrewsbury, England), Nick Jordan (Princeton, N.J.), Matthew Edstein (Sydney, Australia) and Michael DiSanto (Boston, Mass.).
The remaining three rowers were part of the 2010 Sprints-winning Crimson freshman boat: Jason Phillips (London, England), Josh Hicks (Waterford, Australia) and James O'Connor (Christchurch, New Zealand). Senior coxswain Chris Kingston (Bedford, England) guided the 2009 varsity to a runner-up Sprints finish and fourth-place IRA showing.
Ivy League Champion
Harvard's Sprints win secured the Ivy League championship for the Crimson and first-team All-Ivy League honors for the members of the varsity eight. It was the second straight first-team All-Ivy nod earned by each of the five returning oarsmen. Anthony Locke and Chris Kingston were second-team honorees in 2009. David Wakulich (St. Catherines, Ont.) was a second‑team performer in 2009 and a first-teamer last season.
Figure Eights
Harvard entered heavyweight eights in 24 events in this year's dual regattas and won each race. In its nine total Sprints heats and finals, the Crimson won eight races and placed second in the other.
Returning Medalists
Four Harvard athletes return after winning second varsity bronze in 2010. Benjamin French (Pittsford, N.Y.) and Elihu Reynolds (Queensbury, N.Y.) are in this year's second varsity, while Phil Matthews (Sydney Australia) and Conner Griffith (Lake Oswego, Ore.) are in the open four.
International Influence
Twenty-one of Harvard's heavyweight athletes competing at the IRA regatta hail from outside United States. The countries represented are the United Kingdom (10), Canada (5), Australia (3), New Zealand (3).
Four of the Crimson's nine heavyweight varsity athletes are English, and Nick Jordan was schooled at Eton College before coming to Harvard. Five members of the freshman eight are from the United Kingdom.
Best in Mass
Four members of the Sprints-champion second varsity eight hail from Harvard's home state of Massachusetts. There are two Massachusetts natives in the freshman eight and one in the varsity eight.


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Here is the second installment of my interview with Prof. Mark Goodacre on the Gospel of Thomas (see part one here):
(CWS) 4. Awhile back on your blog, you provided a list from your index of the most cited scholars in your book. You also indicated that the frequency of a given scholar's appearance in the book is unrelated to your extent of agreement with him/her. What scholars have you found to be the most helpful for your own Thomas research and why?
(MG) I really like the work of Stephen Patterson. He is a clear thinker and a clear writer. Although I disagree with many of his conclusions, he analyzes the evidence with fairness and clarity. And in general I like scholars who lay out their case clearly. I am less keen on what I think of as "shifting sands" scholarship, where you simply cannot be sure how the case overall is panning out. You shouldn't have to re-read a scholar's work multiple times in order to work out what they are saying.
For my case on Thomas's familiarity with the Synoptics, I found myself frequently in agreement with Christopher Tuckett and Klyne Snodgrass, both of whom write with clarity and force. Given that I had disagreed with Tuckett in my Q book, it was nice on this occasion to be joining him in battle. And now too I find that I agree with Simon Gathercole's views on Thomas to a major extent. Although we wrote our books independently of one another, like Matthew and Luke on the Two-Source Theory, it turns out that we agree on most of the issues.
(CWS) 5. I know you have a forthcoming article in which you discuss the Nag Hammadi discoveries. Other than that, are you planning any future projects on the Gospel of Thomas?
(MG) The Nag Hammadi article arose out of my research on Thomas. I wanted to write about the story of the discovery of the Nag Hammadi codices but when I researched the topic, I found that there is not one version of the story but several. And the more I looked at the different versions, the more worried I became about how much we can really know about the circumstances of the discovery. The article, "How reliable is the story of the Nag Hammadi discovery?" should come out later this year in JSNT.
I don't have anything else currently planned on the Gospel of Thomas but I have a piece on the Gospel of Peter that I hope to get published before too long, and I am also doing some work on the Gospel of Mary and related texts.
(CWS) 6. You are one of the most outspoken opponents of the "Q" hypothesis. Many scholars see "Q" and Thomas as early examples of the wisdom genre applied to Jesus' sayings. Obviously, since you reject the notion of Q, you would also reject this line of thinking. To your mind, what theological outlook do we find in the Gospel of Thomas and why?
(MG) I think the comparison between Q and Thomas has been pretty damaging and in several ways it has thrown us off the scent. The comparison is largely an accident of our own social location. Q was one of the biggest and most successful hypotheses in twentieth century research on Christian origins, but its hypothetical nature always caused scholars some residual anxiety. One way of dealing with the anxiety was to align the hypothetical Q with the newly discovered Thomas. Coptic Thomas was discovered in 1945, but only began to seep into scholarly consciousness in the seventies and eighties, at the same time that Q was taking on a life of its own.
The difficulty for those who want to align Q and Thomas is that these works are only superficially comparable. Anyone who has done any actual research on either realizes that the differences are far more striking than the similarities. I have argued that reflection on the differences helps us to see how the true Sayings Gospel (Thomas) differs from the hybrid scholarly reconstruction (Q). The latter makes much better sense as a scholarly extraction of parallel material from Matthew and Luke, not as a discrete work.
Moreover, and to get to the heart of your question, Thomas's theological outlook could hardly be more different than Q's. To take two really obvious examples, Thomas differs from Q on the Old Testament and on eschatology. Thomas disdains the Old Testament – it only refers to Adam, it never explicitly quotes the Old Testament, and it thinks of the prophets as "the dead". Q, on the other hand, loves the Old Testament, cites its heroes, and quotes many key texts. Similarly, Thomas and Q differ on eschatology. Thomas has a protology rather than an eschatology, and is looking to get back to Eden, to the singular human being before the fall. But Q is driven-through with eschatology at every turn, and repeatedly talks about the kingdom, the future, and the Son of Man.
I do not, of course, accept the existence of Q, but I point out these contrasts in order to show how some of the clear problems with making them representatives of the same trajectory in early Christianity. To put it another way, Thomas is a "sayings gospel" because it really believes that salvation lies in interpreting Jesus's words, whereas Q is only a "sayings gospel" insofar as it represents scholarly efforts to extract and over-emphasize some of the sayings material in the Synoptics.
(CWS) 7. Another interest that I have, and one that I hope to promote on this blog, is research on the historical Jesus. In your opinion, is there anything in the Gospel of Thomas that goes back to the historical Jesus? If yes, what? If no, explain why not.
(MG) I share your interest in the Historical Jesus and I suppose to some extent this also comes back to your first question about one's initial interest in Thomas. I began by hoping that perhaps it could provide us with some extra material on the historical Jesus, and I was disappointed when I found otherwise. I do think that there are likely to be historical Jesus traditions in Thomas, but I think that they are found in the Synoptic parallels that make up half of Thomas rather than the new material that makes up the other half of Thomas. I don't rule out the possibility that historical Jesus traditions occur in the newer, unparalleled materials, but I find it unlikely. Bear in mind that even the Jesus Seminar, which tended to favour Thomas as a source for historical Jesus research, struggled to find much historical Jesus material in the unique material. Broadly speaking, they were using Thomas as a means of corroborating parallel Synoptic traditions about Jesus.
My reading of the earliest materials persuades me that the Historical Jesus is likely to have been a Jewish eschatological prophet who valued the Hebrew Scriptures, quite unlike the Jesus of the Gospel of Thomas, who disdains eschatology and the Hebrew Bible.
Many thanks to Prof. Goodacre for taking the time to answer our questions!


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Rays Goals 6-10 for 2008 Exceed Expectations
In the beginning of the season I set 10 goals or written items that I hoped the Tampa Bay Rays would complete to become a more productive and successful team. At the time we all did not know the type of franchise success we would see in 2008.
Also stuffed into that list was a few personal obsevations ands wants for the team in 2008. I did a middle of the year evaluation of the list on July 18, 2008 and saw that the team was focused and moving forward in achieving outstanding success on the field.
I am again going to go over the high and lowpoints now after the season is over. I am no longer going to assign a letter grade to the options because this has been a totally "A" year in all aspects. There is no way I could see this coming, and the team took the region by storm in 2008.
The blog today will focus on the items 6-10, and the logo unveiling last November in St. Petersburg, Florida at Straub Park.
As everyone might remember, 12 months ago we set out changing the basic style of the team with a logo change and a uniform retro-fitting. Gone was the old "TB" on the hat that had a ray centered beneath the "TB" symbol. In came a clean looking "TB" in a great marine blue color. Then you get to the uniforms that were streamlined into a more uniform design without the old "Rays" on the chest area of the uniform.
The uniforms went from a white and green basic jersey with blue pinstriping on the sleeves to a retro looking White and Blue model with a logo that popped with the odd shaped "R", and the sunburst in the center of the logo blasting out for all to see. The team held a fantastic outdoor event to unveil the new look with most of the players coming in for the event.
The new design was met with some crtics wanting the old Rays look becuase it had a modern flair without being boring. Others were upset that the away jerseys would not have the "Tampa Bay" moniker blazen across the chest of the players anymore. It was replaced with the new logo "Rays" across the chest.
Other were debating why to let go of the entire past for the new look. One thing the Rays did leave "old" on their jerseys was the flying ray patch on the sleeve. The team decided to continue that tradition and replaced the dark black and colorful ray with one that matched the teams new blue and white jerseys. All in all, the new look showed the team was trying to move beyond the loveable losers' of the past and were hoping for a new attitude in Tampa Bay.
Starting with the bottom of the list at number 10, was the Akinora Iwamura must feel at home at second base. To sya he did not do a superb job this year would be an insult. the guy went from a position where he has won Gold Gloves in Japan to a new position for the betterment of the team. Not only did he do it with grace and style, but he made himself a front runner for years at the position.
Iwamura was one of the people nominated for a Gold Glove this year at second in the AL. He only committed a handful errors all year long and ended up ranked 4th among AL second baseman in his first year ever at the position. He became a vital cog in the Rays double play combination working with Jason Bartlett like he has been playing to position all his life.
The hardwork and the determination of Iwamura to make his transition flawless was carried out to a "T". Aki stood tall and in the pivot long to make sure the team got a chance to complete every double play in 2008. He was also instrumental in the field making countless great plays behind second and relaying the ball into home. Iwamura has found a new home at second base, and will be even better in 2009.
Number 9 stated that catching had to hit a new high this year. Well, that will be an easy one. Dioner Navarro started the year off on fire and got hurt. When he returned, he stayed above the .300 mark well into the second half of the season before falling below that mark for the only time in 2008. Behind the plate he took more control and exercised his own playcalling alot this season.
But the action with Matt Garza in Texas in the ruffle on the mound and in the dugout finally put him on top. It showed that he had the heart and the determination to lead this team behind the dish and put his stamp on the team. With his new confidence at the plate translated perfectly to his time behind the mask.
For the season, His batting average for the year was only behind Minnesota's Joe Mauer at the position in the AL. That is a huge change from the guy battling to stay above .191 during the first half of 2007. Navarro continued during the first half of 2008 getting better and better every game. He was rewarded with his first All-Star invite and was key to the tying and winning run for the AL in the game. He caught 8 innigs in that game and solidified his place among AL catchers with is performance.
Number 8 was about the 1-2-3 setup guys securing the game. Well, this one is a bit tricky. the Rays Bullpen showed a huge upswing in 2008, but the closer role was up in the air alot more than expected in the year. Troy Percival was signed to make a solid end to the Bullpen but went down numerous times during the season.
His back and knee did show the wear and tear of all his MLB years, and by the end of the season he was on the DL and did not even get posted to any of the Rays post season rosters. His health situation put the pressure on the young Rays and they responded brilliantly in most cases.
From J P Howell and Grant Balfour securing the 7th inning for the Rays nightly, to Dan Wheeler or even Jason Hammel being called on to put out the fires in late innings, the young squad held together and mixed and matched nightly to get the Rays the victory.
It was not your picture perfect way to run a Bullpen, but the Rays did make it happen and post one of the best turnaround years ever for a Bullpen. The young guys matured and got valuable experience, and the veterans stood tall and made the plays when they were needed in 2008.
Number 7 was that the right-field guy has to be consisitant and kick butt. You would have to define that a bit more to really decide if it was a successful year or a failure. I have it more at a banner year for finding the right guys finally, but it could have been a lot better organized.
Jonny Gomes and Eric Hinske got most of the early reps in right during the beginning of the year. With the trade for Gabe Gross, the Rays brought in a guy who had never been counted on like this to raise the bar for the team. Gross came in and put his defensive and offensive stamp on the position early.
Gross made countless great play in the field and became a electric guy at the plate. He hit a 436 foot homer on August 6th that just showed the improvements he had made with the Rays. Gross made a massive improvement to the position to the Rays before the trade dedeadline.
After the return of Rocco Baldelli, the right-field platooning took on a more effective mode. You had the defensive skills of both guys as a plus in the field and had bats fron both sides of the plate to balle pitchers'. The Rays had a solid core in the last half of the season, and the addition of Baldelli proved amazing at the plate during the rest of the year and in the playoffs.
Number 6 was our prospects need to improve. This became a double-edged sword to the Rays in 2008. We saw guys like Elliot Johnson, Reid Brignac and Ben Zobrist come up and solidify the infield when needed, but the additon of these prospects did not make the difference for the Rays. Zobrist was the most consistant of the guys from the minors in coming in and making the job his in 2008.
Zobrist was being counted on to be the "go-to" guy in the Ray's lineup in 2008. An early injury set him down and it took some time before he came back up and made his mark offensively this year for the team. He developed a offensive style that was not seen in his game before 2008.
Pitching saw Grant Balfour come back up and not back down an inch the rest of the season. Balfour came on and argued and grunted on the mound and held batter at bay most of the year. His willingness to not back away from heavy hitters made him a valued player in the Bullpen this year. But the guy who made the entire minor league system tremble this season came up in September, and will not have to even think about the minors in 2009.
David Price was the Rays first selection in 2006. He had been annointed by many even before stepping on a MLB mound to be a phenom. Price did nothing to set that rumor to expectation down after his stint against the New York Yankees in New York. Price got better and better every time he hit the mound and became a inspiration to the team.
To out this into prospective, the Rays had enough confidence in this rookie in the ALCS to put him on the mound to finish off Game 7 against the 2007 World Champion Boston Red Sox. Price performed brilliantly and helped paced the Rays during the playoffs.
The rest of the prospect system got a bit muddled in 2008. Desmond Jennings went down with an injury and saw limited time this season in the minors. Jake McGee went down with an arm injury and had to have Tommy John surgery. But even with these high ceiling guys going down, players like Fernando Perez came out of no where and made you know that the Rays prospect system is alive and well.
So here is the first of 2 end of the year goal realization blogs. Goals 6-10 were finalized today and I will write about 1-5 tomorrow. All in all you have to admit that the Rays saw a increase in every aspect of the game in 2008. Every player on the team stepped up in the season and made it magical in their own ways.
2009 will be a year of expectations and the either success or failure to improve over 2008. It will be a harder road for the Rays in 2009. People will be gunning for the team and will not be broadsided anymore. That in itself might be the biggest challenge for the team next year. Living up to the expectations of the local fans and media after a darling season.


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A win for free speech (as expressed by vanity license plates) has just been handed down by the New Hampshire Supreme Court. The plate at the center of the case -- "COPSLIE" -- was originally deemed to be "offensive to good taste" by a lower court, which felt a "reasonable person" would be offended that the driver of this vehicle believed that cops do, in fact, lie.
And they do. They do it more often than most people think. Everyone knows it, even the judges, and yet no one does much about it, because throwing a handful of exculpatory wrenches into the criminal "justice" gears only creates headaches for those least willing to deal with them (prosecutors, judges, DAs -- basically anyone who doesn't get jailed/fined as a result of the lies). Cops lie because they're a) human beings and b) many of their incentives are perverse.
So, when David Montenegro tried to state that fact via a delivery system easily viewable by any cop he drove by, the state told him he couldn't because some "reasonable person" (most likely a cop) would be offended by his factual statement. Montenegro could have made this statement about any group (politicians, priests, parents, kids, school administrators, lawyers, the media), but he chose to highlight this aspect of policing.
Montenegro knew the DMV's lazy rationale was faulty. In fact, he proved it. He submitted a backup request -- GR8GOVT -- which was approved. So, he took his case to the state's Supreme Court, which exposed the arbitrary nature of the DMV's "reasonable person" excuse.
The challenged portion of the regulation prohibits vanity registration plates that "a reasonable person would find offensive to good taste." The phrase "offensive to good taste" is not defined in the regulation. Further, to the extent the phrase could be construed to prohibit obscene material, we note that a separate provision in the regulation prohibits vanity registration plates that are "capable of an obscene interpretation." …The DMV stated that it had a "reasonable person" standard for offensiveness while also noting that different people would naturally find different things offensive. It's one thing to have a set standard. It's quite another to deploy contradictory stances as official policy. Because when you do that, you don't actually have a policy -- you have an informal straw poll.
Taken together, [the dictionary definitions of the words in the regulation] lead to various potential interpretations of the phrase "offensive to good taste." For example, one such interpretation could be that no vanity registration plates are allowed that are "insulting to the standard of morality or virtue of individual preference."
To the extent the DMV argues that its reasoning for denying the petitioner's requested vanity registration plate [COPSLIE] in this case aids in interpreting the phrase "offensive to good taste," we disagree. The DMV initially denied the petitioner's request because several DMV employees believed the text to be "insulting."There's where the true issue is. The blue team protecting itself and the government in general insulating itself from criticism through arbitrary enforcement of vague policies.
So, Montenegro gets the win and the plates he always wanted. In addition to securing a bit more free speech, Montenegro will also receive a lifetime of hassling by The Man and, quite possibly, the Home Version of said hassling.
Cops may not like someone confronting them (via license plate) with the fact that many citizens don't find them particularly trustworthy. But they'd be better off just letting this plate cruise by (while being passively collected by a license plate reader) without retaliation. Montenegro's already made one point. There's no need to make the rest of his points for him.
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I'm not a socially responsible person. Yes, I recycle applesauce jars and soda cans. Yes, I throw the odd quarter into a homeless person's cup. But I don't spend a single hour of a single week doing something for someone who isn't an employer, a friend, or a family member. Yet I desperately want to. We all do.
But where to start? The very breadth and severity of the world's problems suggest that nothing less than full-time devotion to them will make a dent. As a small-company owner especially, how can you afford to give away money or hours when you're struggling to make your payroll? How can you come up with anything as powerful and effective as those well-known bulldozers of social responsibility, Ben & Jerry's and the Body Shop?
The truth is, small companies all over the country are inventing ways to give back to their communities. Their ideas -- often born of scarce resources -- are imaginative, fresh, and sometimes even daring. In the belief that every little bit helps, we've brought together several of their approaches to philanthropy as a guide to others who also have the urge to get more actively involved in the world around them.
We have purposely omitted some widely known examples -- companies like Greyston Bakery, which has created its own job-creation machine for welfare families in the Bronx, or Southern Kitchens Inc., in Minneapolis, which hires ex-convicts and other hard-to-employ people. Or Stonyfield Farm Yogurt Inc., in Londonderry, N.H., a business that was started to support family dairy farmers in New England. All those companies are highly effective, but they began life with a social mission. We focused instead on companies that started out with a business agenda and found a way to incorporate social purpose into that mission.
Making that journey is different for every company owner, but there are some common experiences. First, a company's altruistic activities mature, much as its business operations do. Companies that begin by simply giving away money tend to find that less satisfying as time goes on. Eventually, they want to add their personal imprint and amplify the effect that cash will have.
Second, doing good has its pitfalls. Just Desserts, a San Francisco bakery with a history of giving back, had one program fail because employees simply weren't interested in participating and another that threatened to collapse because of ineffectiveness -- the recipients weren't being rehabilitated. The Rumpp Co., a Body Shop franchise in Portland, Oreg., ended a program that involved employees' working at a shelter for battered women and children, because the employees found it too discouraging.
Finally, almost every company that successfully devised its own way of giving back was astounded at the ripple effect its drop in the bucket produced -- for employees and customers as well as their communities.
Here, then, are the folks who without much fanfare are making social responsibility part of their identity and, in the process, are making it easier for the rest of us to follow in their footsteps.
Donate Your Product
Giving away your product may not be the most earthshaking of charitable activities, but it's a fabulous starting point for three reasons. It's simple to do. It links your business operations to your altruistic urges in a natural way. And it supports existing philanthropic organizations. That's important. Rather than reinventing the wheel, you can augment the effectiveness of an already well-developed program.
Laury Hammel, general manager and principal owner of the Longfellow Clubs, a $4.5-million health and recreation company in Wayland, Mass., is no late-stage convert to social responsibility. He is involved in 10 nonprofit foundations, 5 of which he founded, and also in a host of charities and community events. Even so, one of his company's most satisfying and enduring practices is to donate the use of its health-club facilities to kids with special needs. Hammel is about to celebrate the 16th year of the Handi-Racket Tennis Program, in which about 25 handicapped kids learn to play tennis weekly. Longfellow waives the court fees for the Saturday-afternoon sessions, and most of the tennis pros on hand are volunteers. Neither the kids nor the agency that runs the program and two similar ones in swimming and basketball is charged for use of the pool or the courts. Altogether, the three programs reach some 50 youngsters, about 80% of the children with disabilities in and around Wayland.
"The kids love coming out here," Hammel reports. "They never miss a day." The cost to Longfellow isn't enormous. Forgone tennis-court fees come to less than $3,000 a year. However, Longfellow's program requires gumption more than money. "We have to be committed to say, This is what we're offering, even if it sometimes gets in the way of what club members may want," Hammel says.
What could be more obvious than a bakery giving away its bread, muffins, and croissants to the homeless? Five years ago, when Saint Louis Bread Co. opened its doors, it decided not to discount its unsold goods at the end of each day but to donate the food to homeless shelters and food pantries in St. Louis. A modest charitable act, perhaps. But its effects have snowballed as the company has grown. Daily contributions from the company's 17 bakeries totaled some $700,000 retail last year -- almost 5% of the company's $15 million in annual revenues. And that's just one of three ongoing philanthropic programs that Saint Louis Bread conducts.
For Bill Seretta, president of Harper/ Connecting Point Computer Center, donating the machines and training services of his $7.5-million computer store is a way to contribute to the well-being of Portland, Maine. "Our business won't be healthy unless our community is healthy," he says. "I spend about 40% of my time in community proj-ects -- I see that as part of my job description." Seretta's company donates training directly to people who can use it, such as teachers and schoolchildren, and also to charitable efforts, such as auctions, which sell off Harper's classes to raise money. The company also has lent its computers for lengthy periods to an intrastate school program, a local theater, and a number of money-raising auctions.
Involve Your Employees
The great appeal of getting your company involved in charitable efforts is that it enables you to magnify the effect of any good you do. Giving away your product is a prime example. Businesses, after all, have greater resources to draw on than individuals do. But social responsibility starts to become truly powerful when it harnesses dynamic resources, such as people, rather than static ones, such as money or products.
As an employer, you have a terrific opportunity to turn your employees into agents of change, whose growing sense of philanthropy will in turn influence others. Longfellow's philanthropy, for example, has proved contagious to its more than 200 full-and part-time employees. One of its aerobics instructors initiated a Dance for Heart event at the health club for the American Heart Association. Two others turned the club into a collection point for used coats and workout shoes, which were donated to the homeless.
Rhino Records, a young record company in Santa Monica, Calif., with annual revenues of $20 million, specifically rewards employees who engage in charitable activities. In one program, workers who contribute 16 hours of personal time per year in community service can take Christmas week off with pay. A second program kicks in for employees who exceed 16 hours of service. They can take equivalent time off, up to six days. Nearly all of Rhino's 100 employees participate in the first program and about half in the second, at a cost of about $20,000 a year to the company. The high participation rate is partly a result of the company's active promotion of social consciousness. It organizes monthly speakers on a wide range of social, economic, and political issues, such as the Los Angeles riots, old-growth forests, and Native American rights. Everyone who attends gets a free lunch.
While freedom of choice is Rhino's philosophy, it may be tempting to a company to channel employees toward a favorite charity. On one level it makes sense, too -- the more hours your company pours into a specific project, the greater effect you'll have. The question is, Do you want to dictate what your employees should care about? Many company owners solve that problem by giving employees the chance to work in both a cause of their own and a company-targeted charity.
Watering Inc., a publisher of automotive magazines in Bennington, Vt., has chosen that approach. One program is designed to improve parents' involvement in their children's education. Employees may take two days of paid vacation per year to go to school with one of their children. Childless employees can opt to accompany a neighbor's child or volunteer at a school. The downside of such targeted programs is that they don't inspire everyone to act. Only about 10 of Watering's 85 employees participate in the education program. But the company has 100% participation in another philanthropic initiative: it grants all employees $300 a year to give to the charities of their choice. In a separate program, Watering, which has annual revenues of $18.5 million, will match an employee's additional personal gift to a charity, up to $300.
Attract Other Companies
Possibly the simplest and cheapest thing you can do to make a difference in the world is to be the first to take a stand on an issue, then involve others. For example, as part of his company's celebration of Earth Day, Longfellow's Hammel spearheaded an environmental task force at a local chamber of commerce. The group got 50 local businesses to sign a pledge to commit to following 10 environmentally sound practices and published it in the local newspaper.
Leveraging its reputation as an innovator for social change, Just Desserts, the San Francisco bakery, has persuaded 35 other companies to join with it to adopt an elementary school in a low-income area. "Some of the kids are malnourished, and many of them come from homes where they're abused," cofounder Elliot Hoffman says. "It's just a very poor environment for learning -- the next logical step from there is jail." Last fall the adopters got 100 volunteers to plant gardens and trees on the school grounds. In April about 700 volunteers, drawn mostly from the sponsoring companies, painted the school and refurbished 10 rooms, including classrooms, the gymnasium, the library, and the auditorium.
Serving as a role model is important when dealing with controversial or relatively unknown causes. Bill Seretta, of Harper/Connecting Point Computer Center, worried that his personal and corporate championing of a gay-and lesbian-rights bill in Maine would alienate some customers. Instead, Harper's public position seemed to validate the private opinions of other company owners. "I got a lot of positive response from other businesspeople," Seretta says. "They saw it as a brave thing to do."
Leverage Your Company's Expertise
Lynn Gilbert Bignell was inspired to volunteer after reading The Day America Told the Truth, by James Patterson and Peter Kim (Prentice Hall, 1991), a book that paints a vivid portrait of America's social impoverishment. The question was, How could her executive-search company, Gilbert Tweed Associates Inc., make the biggest impact? Management-committee members considered and rejected allowing employees to volunteer on company time at a not-for-profit company. "Giving people time off doesn't leverage the talent we have here," she explains. "Certainly it has meaning, but it doesn't accomplish what we're capable of."
Instead, Bignell, cofounder Janet Tweed, and partner Stephanie Pinson decided to use their company's skills to enhance nonprofit operations. "Why send our 50 employees out as volunteers when Gilbert Tweed can teach nonprofit organizations how to recruit 500 better volunteers for themselves?" she asks. So the company ran a lottery for nonprofits devoted to health care or education. The winners would receive free executive searches for a high-level position; human-resources consulting services; or admission to one of the firm's seminars on selecting and retaining personnel.
The $5.8-million company, which is based in New York City, received more than 500 inquiries from organizations all over the country, including Alaska, and picked 20 winners. Bignell considers the lottery a far superior way to give back than the occasional pro bono work her firm used to do. "This is a much more concerted, proactive effort, as opposed to simply responding to a client that you couldn't say no to," she says.
Dough for Kids, one of Saint Louis Bread's philanthropic programs, also uses the company's expertise as a baker to help local public and private schools. In coordination with the schools, the company supplies students with $12.60 gift certificates for its products. The kids sell the certificates for $5 but reimburse the company only $2.50 per certificate. The schools' proceeds go toward equipment and supplies.
Gardeners' Supply, a mail-order company in Burlington, Vt., has ambitiously integrated company skills with social purpose. From the company's beginning, in 1983, says president Will Raap, "we had the goal of generating profits so those profits could further our mission of bringing the joys and rewards of gardening to more people." The company's oldest social program collects and composts grass clippings and leaves for free in the Burlington area; the program has been so successful the county now runs it, collecting 3,000 to 4,000 tons a year, and then makes the nutrient-rich compost available to gardeners. To reach its goal of recycling 30% of the community's total waste, the company also composts food scraps. The compost is used to grow produce for a local medical-center cafeteria. More than half the company's 120 employees participate in the composting projects or are members of the company's community farm, which enables families in the Burlington area to jointly own and work a garden and share in its produce.
Raap estimates that the direct costs of equipment, trucks, and staff associated with those and other philanthropic activities total $50,000 to $75,000 a year. The company, which has annual revenues of nearly $20 million, doesn't count the cost of the time its employees donate. Raap believes that using the company's special skills in community projects sharpens those skills. "When we're growing food for people or making compost, it gives us a better appreciation of how to help our community -- and customers -- learn to do the same."
Suzy Becker, owner of the Widget Factory Cards Inc., a greeting-card publisher in Concord, Mass., has only three full-time employees and annual revenues of less than $1 million, yet she has mapped out a sophisticated giving strategy that leverages Widget's expertise in communications while enlisting its network of suppliers and customers. Focusing on nettlesome issues that have surfaced in the personal lives of Becker and her staff, Widget runs an educational campaign every other year. Its first, called I Don't Put Up with Put-downs, showed people how to take a stand against prejudice. On the back of its greeting cards Widget printed a coupon that could be sent to the company with $1 for a booklet of practical advice and a button. That initial effort raised $7,000, which Widget donated to A World of Difference, a national diversity-education program sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League. This year's campaign will suggest ways in which people can become better-informed patients.
Enlist Suppliers and Customers
Becker has had far greater success in terms of dollars raised by calling on Widget's suppliers and business contacts to support her causes. When she first approached suppliers to become sponsors in the five-day, 500-mile bike rides Widget put together to benefit AIDS education, she was apprehensive. "I was hesitant," she remembers. "I thought, I'm asking them to do me a favor." In fact, she found they were eager to support both the cause and Widget itself. "People really want to feel like they can help a small company make a difference," she says. Together, the first two rides raised more than $75,000.
Music for Little People (MFLP), a mail-order and record company in Redway, Calif., works even harder to enlist suppliers and customers to contribute to a charitable cause. "One of the questions we ask a new or potential supplier is, 'Do you make donations or support any charitable activities that we can mention in our catalog?' " says executive vice-president Jimmy Durchslag. "We have limited space in the catalog. So if we have a number of suppliers who can supply the same product and one is more socially conscious than the others, it could tip the balance in its favor." The company also occasionally is able to persuade suppliers to join MFLP in supporting a cause by donating part of the profits on a product. Enhanced Audio Systems, an audiocassette producer in Emeryville, Calif., agreed to donate 25¢ of every one of its tapes sold through the catalog to the MFLP Foundation, which helps children and their families learn about the arts. Similarly, Colleen's Garden, a company owned by a Native American family in Marvin, S. Dak., sold its products at a lower wholesale price to MFLP, which donated the difference to Project Lakota, which benefits an Indian reservation.
The result is clearly visible to a customer perusing MFLP's catalogs. A good third of the audiotapes and compact discs function as fund-raisers for a range of charities. For example, every "Walk Your Talk" drum and T-shirt purchased from the company's New Year's sale catalog triggers a $1 contribution toward helping the Sinkyone Intertribal Wilderness Council preserve U.S. forests and tribal customs.
The advantage of that technique is that by involving suppliers and customers, you can bring some volume to the giving process. MFLP raised $28,352 during a year in which it had $9.3 million in revenues. Says Durchslag: "That money is committed whether we make money or lose money."
Yakima Products Inc., a car-rack maker in Arcata, Calif., and Hanna Andersson, a children's clothing mail-order company in Portland, Oreg., focus on the largest group they have influence over: customers. Unable to avoid using plastic and foam in packing its high-end roof-rack systems, Yakima created a way for customers to easily mail the packaging materials back -- free. The company reuses the foam and polyethylene-shell portions of the container and recycles the outer chipboard. Hanna Andersson asks customers to recycle its products, too. Any used piece of the company's clothing that isn't torn or stained can be sent back, and 20% of the returned item's original price will be applied to the customer's next purchase. The company has washed and donated 107,000 garments to needy children since sending out its first catalog, nine years ago.
Sebastian International, a maker of skin, hair, and makeup products, based in Woodland Hills, Calif., established Club UNITE (for Unity Now Is a Tomorrow for Everyone) to make philanthropists out of salon customers. Participants write a check for $10 to one of seven foundations that Sebastian has screened and immediately receive $15 in Sebastian products. As club members, they also get a passport of coupons for products and services worth up to $65. Since 1991 the company, which has some $100 million in revenues, has channeled more than $4 million to the foundations through Club UNITE and outright donations.
Allying your customers to your good cause makes it easy for them to feel they're making an impact on the world. If they already know and like your product, they'll often go out of their way to support your fund-raising drive. When Barry Steinberg, founder and president of Direct Tire Sales, a $6-million tire retailer in Watertown, Mass., ran a program allocating to the Jimmy Fund/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 3% of every purchase made by customers who mentioned the company's radio ad campaign from August to December, customers streamed in. Direct Tire's program raised $14,800 in its first year and $21,060 in its second. Steinberg remembers one customer who didn't need tires but came in to buy a $300 Christmas gift certificate just so that 3% of his money would go to the cancer-research institute.
The Payoff
It may be crass to discuss the payoff of doing good. But let's face it, there are ramifications. When asked, company owners have a wide range of answers.
They are able to attract and retain employees longer. Their customers feel a more intense bond with them. They believe that what they put out in the world will come back to them. Only one of the dozens we interviewed talked openly about enjoying the good publicity that often arises from such programs. In the end, all the answers -- except that last one -- revolve around one factor: a social purpose injects humanity into the process of commerce. Business has been defined -- and perceived -- as soulless for so long that when people get a chance to express a bit of caring through their company, they love it.
Lewis Smoot believes in mentoring -- with a twist
The animating principle of Lewis Smoot Sr.'s socially responsible activities is that next to nothing is accomplished by giveaways. The way he sees it, if you give money away to people, you're not effecting a permanent improvement in their lives. His construction company, the Smoot Corp., based in Columbus, Ohio, acts as a mentor to struggling minority contractors. But it's not a cakewalk for the companies that are sponsored. "The success of our mentorship is tied to the profitability of the mentorship," Smoot says. A less exacting standard would rob the mentored company of the chance for long-lasting self-sufficiency.
Unlike many programs in which a successful company meets sporadically with one or more fledgling businesses, Smoot targets only one company at a time and develops a true working partnership. The Smoot Corp. is currently working with the Oscar Robertson Co. of Indiana, a small contracting business in Indianapolis owned by Oscar Robertson, a former professional basketball player and all-American from the University of Cincinnati, and Rodney Bynum. Though the region offers a lot of construction opportunities, the Oscar Robertson Co. lacked the administrative skills and financial wherewithal to bid on large jobs. Smoot has entered into a five-year partnership with the company, in which Smoot's professionals work alongside and train Robertson and Bynum's staff in a new, separate Indianapolis office called ORS. The Smoot Corp. also brings its superior financial position -- and bonding ability -- to the jobs the partnership bids on. Initially, Smoot will get 70% of the profits, and the Oscar Robertson Co. will collect 30%. The goal is to bring that ratio to 55% to 45% at the end of five years, with Smoot receiving the larger share to compensate for the computers and ser-vices it provides. Oscar Robertson is the second minority-owned company the Smoot Corp. has taken under its wing.
The catch to being a Smoot apprentice is that you are required to return the favor to another needy company. "When we're through with this contractor, it will have the responsibility to do the same with a young contractor emerging in Indianapolis," explains Smoot. "If I do one mentorship, and the person who works with me does one, and we continue that, then we will have far more successful entrepreneurs than we had before."
Elliot Hoffman puts ex-convicts to work
San Francisco bakery Just Desserts' social consciousness was inspired to take a new direction two years ago, when owner Elliot Hoffman took a walk in the San Francisco County Jail's 10-acre organic garden. Hoffman, having just finished a fairly depressing tour of the institution, gazed at the healthy plants and listened to one of the convicts talk about the garden. "Here's this big guy, who a few years earlier would just as soon have slit my throat, talking about how he wants to change his life," recalls Hoffman.
Working with Cathrine Sneed, the counselor who established the jail's garden, Hoffman turned the one-acre piece of dirt in back of his bakery into a working garden tilled by ex-convicts. On any given day 20 to 30 former prisoners or street people work there. They are paid a daily stipend drawn from grants and city funding. It's a commercial enterprise, also: Just Desserts buys strawberries from the garden, and a trendy restaurant buys its produce.
If it had stopped there, this social experiment might be a lovely story with some nice symbolism. But because Hoffman's project is so near his company and he and his employees rub shoulders with the gardeners every day, an unusual alchemy took place. "The ex-prisoners see and touch and talk with people like me every day," Hoffman says. "There's a lot of mutual respect. And they see people leading productive lives." He grew so confident about 6 of the garden workers that he hired them as full-time bakery employees.
Remembering one of his most recent hires, a woman who had done time for dealing marijuana, Hoffman says: "When she found out we wanted to hire her, she came over and gave me the greatest big hug. It really changes your perception of social justice, of the disenfranchised in this country. You begin to see that the people that have grown up in this environment might as well be on the planet Mars. Drugs is not a fun life. They want a job. They want a shot at a decent, productive life."
Just Desserts' garden project has propagated other proj-ects, too. The city of San Francisco has subcontracted the planting of 2,000 trees around the city to a rotating group of 10 of the company's garden workers.
Hoffman feels the wear and tear of balancing business, family, and community needs, but thinks companies are in a special position to act. "I really believe that business has to play a larger role in changing our society," he says. "Businesspeople, especially those in smaller companies, know how to get things done. We tend to think outside the box. We need to bring that creativity to our community. Disenfranchised people need on-ramps into society. Those aren't going to come from the federal government."


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Aloe Vera
Veterinarian Reviewed on June 14, 2012 by Paulina Nelega, RH
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Aloe Vera
Aloe Vera is a succulent plant that is widely distributed throughout parts of Africa, Asia and in India as well. There are many species of this herbal remedy and it is well acclaimed as a treatment of many diseases.
Aloe Vera is a plant that can grow up to be between 60 and 100 cm long. The leaves of the Aloe Vera plant are thick and fleshy, and usually appear to be green to light green in color. Aloe Vera flowers are produced by mature plants and are usually found to be in bloom during the summer months; the flowers are pendulous with yellow tubules.
The Aloe Vera extract has been well regarded as an herbal remedy to heal burns, skin infections and even minor skin disorders. Aloe Vera preparations are a treatment for diabetes and many experts believe that the presence of compounds like polysaccharides, anthraquinuones and lectins give Aloe Vera its therapeutic properties.
History and Origin
The name Aloe Vera originated from the Arabic word 'alloeh' which means bitter; this has been so named because of the bitter liquid or extract that is found when the leaves are harvested. There are over 500 species of the Aloe plant and many people around the world have benefited from the health giving properties that this herbal remedy has.
Ancient Uses
In ancient times, the Aloe Vera has been used by African tribes in treating skin conditions and was regarded as the "Lily of the Desert". It was also used by African hunters and headsmen as a gel to reduce perspiration and to mask their scent while hunting. Egyptians used Aloe Vera to treat burns, skin infections and intestinal parasites.
Modern Uses
The Aloe Vera plant is well researched during modern times and it has been found that it is made of 95% water and the rest is composed of essential oils, vitamins, minerals and enzymes which are essential in healing wounds and burns. Aloe Vera juice is used to treat irritations of the digestive tract especially abdominal pain, gastric upset and peptic ulcers. Aloe Vera is also a food supplement that can help aid blood circulation and keep lymphatic circulation healthy. It also helps aid digestion and treats gall bladder dysfunctions. Most of the parts of the plant of the Aloe Vera can be used as an herbal remedy but it is the leaves of the Aloe Vera that is widely used in many Aloe Vera preparations. An extract is used by drying and grinding the leaves of the Aloe Vera. The juice however is made of the inner leaf of the plant.
Side Effects
There are no known side effects in the use of Aloe Vera preparations provided that the aloin content in this herbal remedy is completely processed. Taking Aloe Vera supplements however is contraindicated in pregnant and nursing mothers.
If you wish to use Aloe Vera extracts and supplements for your illness, it is best to consult your doctor for the appropriate dose of Aloe Vera for you. There may be adverse drug reactions when used together with your current medication so it is best to consult your doctor first regarding this.
Our Expert
Paulina Nelega, RH, has been in private practice as a Clinical Herbalist for over 15 years. She has developed and taught courses in herbal medicine, and her articles on health have appeared in numerous publications. She is very passionate about the healing power of nature. Ask Dr. Jan


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