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Kent Philpott's Back
Rev. Kent Philpott was a key player in the birth of the ex-gay movement.
In the mid 70's, there was a growing movement to recognize the civil rights of gay men and women. There were challenges to sodomy laws, pride celebrations, and open politicians. Even the way in which gay persons were percieved changed; "Gay" came to be an adjective of what someone was rather than the older term "a homosexual" which suggested what someone did.
It was in this time and place of transition, around 1973 in the San Francisco bay area, that a preacher, Philpott, first decided to bring together gay people who had conflict with their religious upbringing into a support group for overcoming their shared "affliction". The outgrowth of this meeting became Love In Action which was probably the first ex-gay ministry. (Later LIA joined with EXIT, Outpost, EAGLE, Metanoia and other new ex-gay groups springing up around the country in what eventually became Exodus.)
In 1975, Philpott took the stories of participants in his group and published The Third Sex?: Six Homosexuals Tell Their Stories, the first ex-gay testimonials. As with many such testimonials, ultimately none of the six had actually become heterosexuals. However, the readers across the nation did not know that and this book caught the attention of Christians seeking a solution to the "homosexual problem".
One of Philpott's ex-gays – known in the book as "Ted" – was John Evans. John later wrote an article describing his early involvement and ultimate disillusion.
On May 5, 1979, I, along with the three women in the book, sent a notarized letter to Logos International, the publisher of The Third Sex? The letter informs them that the claims in the book were 100% false. We demanded that he stop publishing the book immediately.
As is the usual response to former ex-gays, their objections were ignored and the book continued to be printed and distributed.
As time went by, Philpott played a lesser role in LIA and gradually disappeared from any form of leadership in the ex-gay movement.
Now, however, we find that he is ready to return – at least in some limited capacity. According to the Marin Independent Journal, Philpott's church, Miller Avenue Baptist Church in Mill Valley, CA, is starting a Homosexuals Anonymous program.
It is interesting that Philpott's church is selecting HA rather than an Exodus affiliation, but I hesitate to read too much into that choice.


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'Tribes With Flags' is the gripping story of Charles Glass's dramatic journey through Greater Syria which provides background context to a troubled region once again in the headlines.
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Americans in Paris tells for the first time the true story of the thousands of Americans who stayed in Paris during the Nazi occupation. This tale of adventure, intrigue, passion and deceit exposes the lives of Americans caught up in war from the day the German army marched into Paris in June 1940 and took many of them into the Paris underground, the Maquis and the concentration camps.
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The US government is spying on us all. It monitors formerly sacrosanct and legally protected communications between spouses, between lawyers and clients and between physicians and patients. Only the confessional remains inviolate, at least for the moment.
It is not enough to assume that those who have us all under surveillance are disinterested, benevolent observers of our actions and utterances. Thousands of government employees private contractors listen to our conversations and read our emails. Among them may lurk a nascent J. Edgar Hoover ready to smear and blackmail us as Hoover did Martin Luther King. It is a false assumption that every victim of a drone assassination or torture is guilty of a crime, just as it is unlikely that the 30,000 Vietnamese assassinated in the horrifying Phoenix assassination project was guilty of anything other than wanting Vietnam to govern itself.
Chelsea, formerly Bradley, Manning languishes in an American federal penitentiary. Julian Assange is a political refugee in the cramped quarters of a tiny embassy in London. Edward Snowden is confined to Moscow, unable to travel or to resume his career. You are free, but you can at least say thanks to them.
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In 'The Deserters', veteran reporter and historian Charles Glass gives voice to the powerful stories of three soldiers, two Americans and one Brit, who all ran from the conflict to meet with distinctly different fates. He follows each into the heat of battle, exploring the pressures that formed their decisions and the lasting impact of their choices. The result is a highly emotional and engaging study of an under-explored area of World War II history.
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Working for yourself can be liberating and terrifying at the same time. Perhaps you have already joined the ranks of "self-employed" and work directly with a client or two while still employed, or maybe you are thinking of venturing out on your own. In this economy the latter may be a result of you being (or expecting to be) the victim of a reduction in workforce.
Here are some interesting statistics from small business counselors, Score.
The estimated 29.6 million small businesses in the United States:
Source: U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy, September 2009
Small Business Openings & Closings in 2008:
Sources: U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy, September 2009; Survival and Longevity in the Business Employment Dynamics Database, Monthly Labor Review, May 2005. Redefining Business Success: Distinguishing Between Closure and Failure, Small Business Economics, August 2003.
The good news is that establishing a business is fairly easy, but running it, and more importantly keeping it running, is the hard part. Statistically, three out of 10 small businesses do not exist after two years and five of 10 fail after five years. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), the primary reasons for failure of these businesses are competition, poor marketing, lack of experience, insufficient capital (money), poor location, poor inventory management, over-investment in fixed assets, poor credit arrangements, personal use of business funds, unexpected growth and low sales.
Planning for a business is the most critical part of a new venture. There are a few additional pitfalls to avoid.
Starting a business for the wrong reasons: Unlike in movies, the real world doesn't respond well to the "build it and they will come" mentality. Sometimes what you think may be an important service (or product) is not as valuable to a potential client. If you have a service or product that someone wants, how does your idea of the value (read money) line-up with a potential buyer's view?
Falling in love with your idea: Don't fall into the trap of "falling in love" with your idea without being absolutely sure the potential market for that idea has also bought-in. Do not ever assume that a client needs your services. This is a common trap I've seen broadcast engineers fall into, when trying to market services to stations.
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For many people in and around South Deerfield, the opening of Alina's Ristorante on Elm Street in February, 2010 was big news, though not necessarily for any reason related to the culinary achievements of Martin Amaya, Alina's owner and head chef.
Even before the first plate of Amaya's exquisite ossobuco came out of his kitchen, the opening of Alina's breathed new vitality into a grand old building that had, in an earlier life, been home to a very popular and well-regarded restaurant called Sienna. For a small-town center like South Deerfield's, having so prominent a building—with its mansard roof and two-story porch supported by elegant columns—unoccupied, even temporarily, was far from optimal. Although it's less than a half mile from one of the Pioneer Valley's leading tourist destinations, Yankee Candle, a simple right turn off Routes 5 and 10 northbound, the village of South Deerfield isn't exactly on the beaten path that leads to, say, Historic Deerfield or even Deerfield Academy. To keep the momentum of recent efforts by area businesses to promote South Deerfield going, it was important to have the building at 6 Elm Street occupied and busy.
The big news for South Deerfield, it turns out, was even bigger news among the Valley's culinary cognoscenti, many of whom were already enthralled by Martin Amaya's cooking. In a region loaded with good restaurants and more than enough hardcore foodies to keep a lot of them viable, Amaya earned a huge following while serving as chef at Carmelina's in Hadley, a restaurant founded in 1985 by Amaya's mentor, Damien DiPaola, and sold in 2007 to Hadley residents Debbie and Dave Windoloski.
Amaya stayed on at Carmelina's a while after DiPaola sold the restaurant—Amaya had been with DiPaola since 1994, starting at the now defunct Mezza Luna in Northampton and going on to impress the boss with his strong work ethic and confident flair with Northern Italian cuisine—but like many young, talented chefs, he dreamed of owning his own place. Even an invitation from DiPaola to join him in his recent restaurant enterprises in Boston, where he runs the critically acclaimed Damieno's, wasn't enough to pull Amaya from his desired path.
"I always had a dream to have a small restaurant," said Amaya, casting his eyes around Alina's dining room, which, with its high ceilings and tall windows, feels plenty spacious. "A place close to home, where people from my community come to eat and I see familiar faces every day."
When the building in South Deerfield came on the market, Amaya and his wife, Maritsa, made the decision to do without the guarantee of a steady paycheck and throw all their energy into a restaurant of their own.
Alina's, Martin says, is exactly the small, family-owned place he saw in his dreams.
The menu at Alina's is small but open-ended, offering a choice of meats and fish for many dishes. It will seem familiar to any fan of Italian cuisine, since it includes items such as frutti di mare, linguini con vongole, veal (or chicken) picatta, and marsala di carne. But it is dazzling just the same, showing both Amaya's passion and his sense of discipline.
The same balance is evident in the preparation: an elegance that comes sandwiched between extravagance and restraint. Consider the scallops mare e mont, an appetizer of scallops over saut?ed wild mushrooms, finished with a spicy tangerine sauce, or the risotto primavera, risotto with seasonal vegetables and parmigiano pecorino cheese: simple but wonderfully indulgent.
In most cases, the actual cooking of a meal "is the easy part," Amaya says with a shy smile. The procurement of fresh, local ingredients and the prep work—the butchering, the cleaning, the boiling and blanching behind the scenes—matter just as much.
As he describes what it takes to clean and blanch fiddleheads, one wonders if he's thankful that the baby ferns are a delicacy only available for an impossibly short time each spring.
"No, it's wonderful," Amaya says, grinning. "I think it's amazing to have all this around us. I can have the fresh asparagus, the best meats, grass-fed, and fresh fish—the best stuff. And we have the people who live here or come here [to the Valley] to enjoy all of this. That's important. We are successful because I love what I do, but also because we are blessed to be in this place, with the farms and with people to come to enjoy and appreciate good food."
"It was scary to take a chance," Amaya says of the decision to go out on his own. But at every point in the process, he adds, "we have been blessed."
In the course of a long conversation with the Amayas one morning in June, I hear that one word again and again:
"To have found this amazing location, 15 minutes from Northampton and Amherst, two minutes off [I-91], we were blessed," says Martin.
"We have been blessed to have wonderful friends who have helped guide us, support us," says Maritsa.
"Blessed" to have met a deadline to open February 2, 2010 that seemed impossible at the outset; "blessed" to have found great waitstaff—"the best kids ever," says Martin; "blessed" to have regular patrons, some who knew Martin from other restaurants, some who as new neighbors welcomed Alina's and have become the familiar faces Amaya dreamed he'd cook for one day; even "blessed" to have great meat and fish suppliers [Arnold's for meats and Masse's for seafood] and an abundance of local farmers bringing an amazing variety of fresh produce; the Amayas are effusive with their gratitude and humbled by their good fortune—good fortune that includes their daughter, Alina, the restaurant's namesake.
"That is always something I thought to do," Martin says, referring to his decision to call his place Alina's. "No other name went into my mind." Shaking his head, he adds, "People ask if it's short for Carmelina's. No, it's not. It's for my daughter."
Amaya knows that the foundation of his restaurant is the reputation he gained at Carmelina's and the education he obtained from DiPaola. Asked whether, now that he's his own boss, he plans to include any culinary elements from his native San Salvador, Amaya quickly shakes his head: "I like Spanish food, but my mother and sister—they are the best. I'm good at this specific cuisine, so it's probably not so smart to change."
Since arriving in the United States from San Salvador at the age of 19, when he hoped to be a paramedic someday, Amaya says he's realized dreams far beyond anything he could have imagined as a boy. But, blessed as he may be, he acknowledges that the key to success in the restaurant business is hard work, the kind of work that can only be sustained by passion and gritty determination. For him, that has meant working every day—every day—since opening Alina's, even though the restaurant observes the time-honored tradition of closing Mondays.
"But I am still smiling," he says, beaming at Maritsa. "There is always work to do, yes, but there is nothing better than to work for yourself, surrounded by friends, supported by family, in a place that feels like home."
This story first appeared in the Valley Advocate's sister publication, Preview Massachusetts.


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EDITOR'S NOTE: Still haunted by The Sopranos' cut-to-black finale four months later? Here, in this exclusive excerpt from The Sopranos: The Complete Book (out Oct. 30), series creator David Chase opens up to interviewer Brett Martin about the choices he made for the controversial send-off.
Were you at all surprised by the reaction to the final episode?
DAVID CHASE: No. We knew there would be people who would be perplexed by it and shut their minds to it. This just felt like the right ending.
Did you expect people to be so pissed off?
We didn't expect them to be that pissed for that long. It's one thing to be deeply involved with a television show. It's another to be so involved that all you do is sit on a couch and watch it. It seemed that those people were just looking for an excuse to be pissed off. There was a war going on that week and attempted terror attacks in London. But these people were talking about onion rings.
If you were expecting plot twists like Furio coming back from Italy to whack Tony and marry Carmela, you were obviously barking up the wrong tree.
There was so much more to say than could have been conveyed by an image of Tony facedown in a bowl of onion rings with a bullet in his head. Or, on the other side, taking over the New York mob. The way I see it is that Tony Soprano had been people's alter ego. They had gleefully watched him rob, kill, pillage, lie, and cheat. They had cheered him on. And then, all of a sudden, they wanted to see him punished for all that. They wanted ''justice.'' They wanted to see his brains splattered on the wall. I thought that was disgusting, frankly. But these people have always wanted blood. Maybe they would have been happy if Tony had killed twelve other people. Or twenty-five people. Or, who knows, if he had blown up Penn Station. The pathetic thing to me was how much they wanted his blood, after cheering him on for eight years.
You know there were many people who thought the end was brilliant.
Sure. But I must say that even people who liked it misinterpreted it, to a certain extent. This wasn't really about ''leaving the door open.'' There was nothing definite about what happened, but there was a clean trend on view a definite sense of what Tony and Carmela's future looks like. Whether it happened that night or some other night doesn't really matter.
Have you heard the elaborate theories about what really happened? Like the one that says you were re-creating The Last Supper?
The interesting thing is that, if you're creative, there may be things at work that you're not even aware of: things you learned in school, patterns you've internalized. I had no intention of using The Last Supper, but who knows if, subconsciously, it just came out. If people want to sit there figuring this stuff out, I think that's just great. Most of them, most of us, should have done this kind of thing in high school English class and didn't.
Are they wasting their time? Is there a puzzle to be solved?
There are no esoteric clues in there. No Da Vinci Code. Everything that pertains to that episode was in that episode. And it was in the episode before that and the one before that and seasons before this one and so on. There had been indications of what the end is like. Remember when Jerry Toricano was killed? Silvio was not aware that the gun had been fired until after Jerry was on his way down to the floor. That's the way things happen: It's already going on by the time you even notice it.
Are you saying...?
I'm not saying anything. And I'm not trying to be coy. It's just that I think that to explain it would diminish it.
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1. Chaweng Resort
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A total of 71 rooms and 3-star hotel amenities, as well as good variety of services which makes the hotel perfect. All rooms have air conditioning, wireless Internet, In Room Safe, TV, shower, mini ba ...
2. Muang Samui Spa Resort
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Bringing exclusive accommodation, our 53 luxurious rooms, junior suite and royal suite: Each fashioned in traditional Thai decor, providing with stable state of the art living and resting area. Each s ...
3. Fair House Villas & Spa
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Fair House Villas & Spa is a romantic beachfront resort that offers a relaxing atmosphere away from the busy areas of Koh Samui. In the lush tropical gardens you will find our airy and spacious tradit ...
4. Iyara Beach Hotel & Plaza
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A unique hotel & chic shopping plaza in a beautiful 60 meters beachfront setting that features well appointed rooms. Conveniently located on the north of Chaweng Beach, Samui Island.
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5. The Fair House Beach Resort & Hotel
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The Fair House Beach Resort lies privately among the coconut groves on Chaweng Noi Beach. Rooms are designed in Thai style and situated among swaying coconut palms and gardens Resort facilities inclu ...
6. Rajapruek Samui Resort
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From Travelers: nice beach close to shops good atmosphere. Recommended for families.
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From Travelers: Large room. TV with DVD player. Pool with slide. Feels secluded amidst wall-to-wall resorts. On the beach. Restaurant with some tasty dishes.. Recommended for Most every ...
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9. Montien House
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Montien House first opened its doors in 1992 and from its humble beginnings then, it now boasts over 56 rooms with over 50 staff. As a family owned and locally operated resort, Khun Bpeh and Khun Ying ...
10. Impiana Resort Chaweng Noi Koh Samui
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12. Thai Ayodhya Villas & Spa Resport Koh Samui
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From Travelers: Very good location, right on the beach, niceest stretch in Chaweng and yet peaceful @ nite. Next to a Supermarket, near to Chaweng center, restaurants, spas, nice pool and v.g ...
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Mutliple grade II winner Stormy Lucy is the 124-pound highweight in the June 28 Royal Heroine Stakes (gr. IIT) at Santa Anita Park that is expected to mark the U.S. debut of New Zealand champion Habibi.
The Fugue easily handled a stellar field in the Prince of Wales's Stakes (Eng-I) June 18 at Royal Ascot, winning in record time over Magician, while European Horse of the Year and heavy favorite Treve struggled in for third.
J. Keeler Johnson handicaps the Prince of Wales's Stakes (Eng-I) at Royal Ascot. read blog
Reigning European Horse of the Year Treve will try to bounce back from her first career defeat against seven opponents in the Prince of Wales's Stakes (Eng-I) June 18, the second day of the Royal Ascot meeting.
Ignored by bettors at 18-1, Sea Queen ran down Minorette in the final 70 yards to win the $200,000 Wonder Again Stakes for 3-year-old fillies on the Belmont Park inner turf course May 25.
Multiple grade I winner Emollient has burned plenty of money in her two starts this year, but she'll attempt to regain her winning form with a return to Santa Anita Park for the $300,000 Gamely Stakes (gr. IT) Memorial Day.
Aron Wellman and Lee Midkiff have grown a fledgling partnership group into the program producing grade I winners such as In Lingerie, Byrama, Capo Bastone, and now Arkansas Derby (gr. I) victor Danza.
Favored Stormy Lucy made her new connections look good when she came from off the pace to catch Miss Serendipity in the final strides to win the Santa Barbara Handicap (gr. IIIT) by a neck April 13 on the turf at Santa Anita.
Stormy Lucy, sold privately since her recent win in the Santa Ana Stakes (gr. IIT), returns to action for her new connections in the $150,000 Santa Barbara Handicap (gr. IIIT) April 13 on the Santa Anita Park turf.
Just a Way, who won just two of his first 15 career starts, showed he has left those days behind as he easily won the $5 million Dubai Duty Free Sponsored by Dubai Duty Free (UAE-I) March 29 at Dubai.
The Dubai World Cup is quickly approaching. Many of the world's best are likely entrants for the March 29 Dubai World Cup race card. Here are my thoughts on the Dubai World Cup races. read blog
Stormy Lucy, winner of the March 16 Santa Ana Stakes (gr. IIT) at Santa Anita, has been sold privately to Steve Moger and has been moved to the barn of Moger's brother, Ed.
Denied nine times previously in graded stakes company, Stormy Lucy found room along the inside under Rafael Bejarano for a breakthrough win in the $200,000 Santa Ana Stakes (gr. IIT) March 16 on the turf at Santa Anita.
Emollient, a three-time grade I winner last year for Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott, makes her first start of the 2014 season in the $200,000 Santa Ana Stakes (gr. IIT) on the turf at Santa Anita Park March 16.
Egg Drop starts her 2014 campaign in the $200,000 Buena Vista Stakes (gr. IIT) on Presidents' Day Feb. 17 at Santa Anita with a three-race winning streak trainer Mike Mitchell credits in great part to jockey Martin Garcia.
Customer Base, in a thrilling finish to the final stakes of the year at Santa Anita Park, nosed out Stormy Lucy in the $100,000 Robert J. Frankel (gr. IIIT) on the turf Dec. 29.
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Ever since the Border Patrol installed internal checkpoints in south Texas, I now loathe traveling through the area. Last night, I was on my way from Laredo to San Antonio, and came upon one of these checkpoints. Of course, the agents were nice enough, but they asked (demanded) to know where I was going, where I had been, what my business was, and my citizenship status. I was then asked (ordered) to pop my trunk so a German Shepard could sniff through my bags. Since I don't have brown skin, and I was not transporting anything not approved by the State, I was quickly on my way. However, throughout my detainment, a single phrase kept echoing through my mind:
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College is about finding out new stuff about yourself. It's about taking a chance and asking that cute guy from Natural Disasters out to coffee (obviously making sure to go to Koffee on Audubon so no one will actually see you). It's about being nervous and excited and awkward and hopeful. "What if this turns into a Facebook chatting thing," you think, "and THEN, maybe we'll make out at Toad's, and then MAYBE just MAYBE we'll start talking to each other OUTSIDE of parties…" But these thoughts quickly halt when on that date at Koffee on Audobon your Natural Disasters dream guy turns to you and tells you he doesn't like Taylor Swift. And that's college, one minute your planning your wedding, the next you want to barf in his face —who the fuck doesn't like T. Swift?
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Dáil Éireann - Volume 497 - 26 November, 1998
Other Questions. - Child Care Facilities.
Mr. McDowell Mr. McDowell
8. Mr. McDowell asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress, if any, made in developing a national framework for child care referred to in his Department's strategy statement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25177/98]
Ms Fitzgerald Ms Fitzgerald
23. Ms Fitzgerald asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his Department's response to the crisis in child care; the timetable of the expert group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23789/98]
Mr. Neville Mr. Neville
48. Mr. Neville asked the Minister for Justice, [800] Equality and Law Reform the Government's policy in the development of adequate child care facilities. [22406/98]
Ms Fitzgerald Ms Fitzgerald
140. Ms Fitzgerald asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the Government's approach to tackling the child care crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20380/98]
Mr. O'Donoghue Mr. O'Donoghue
Mr. O'Donoghue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 8, 23, 48 and 140 together.
Child care is clearly a very important issue and I am committed to the development of a national child care infrastructure as an equal opportunities measure in partnership with the EU.
In July 1997 we established an expert working group on child care to devise a national framework for the development of quality child care services in Ireland. It is intended that the child care infrastructure which will be recommended by the expert working group will form the basis of demands for EU funding in the context of the next round of Structural Funds. Membership of the expert working group includes representatives of the relevant Government Departments, statutory bodies, employers, unions, non-governmental organisations, service providers, parents and individuals with expertise and experience in child care.
The group is considering a range of child care issues all of which contribute to the development of a framework for quality child care, including the financial and employment implications of an integrated approach to the development of a child care framework; registration, training and qualifications; resourcing and sustaining child care in urban disadvantaged areas; equality of access and participation in relation to a national framework; needs and rights of children in relation to a national framework; early childhood education and standards and regulations. The group is exploring the benefits, limitations and implications of a range of policies bearing in mind the diversity of the needs of parents and child care providers. I understand it intends to finalise a report and recommendations in December.
My Department has provided funding to support the development of child care services in disadvantaged areas since 1993. In July 1998 I announced expenditure of £5.2 million on the equal opportunities child care programme over the 1998-9 period which marks a significant increase in my Department's child care budget. The equal opportunities child care programme is designed to support local communities and employers who are trying to facilitate women and men who have child care responsibilities while accessing training, education and employment. It is targeted primarily at community based projects in disadvantaged areas. The programme is part funded by the EU and provides funding for capital infrastructure upgrading, enhancing or establishing facilities; core funding to meet salary costs for child care workers in 25 community child care projects nationwide and funding for an employer [801] demonstration child care initiative which is being developed in partnership with IBEC to stimulate employer interest and involvement in the development of child care services. In addition, a child care database is being established by my Department in conjunction with Area Development Management Limited to document and quantify the range and extent of child care provision and training being supported under EU funding and to establish baseline data on other facilities and services in child care supported by the State. The child care database is also part funded by the EU.
Dr. Upton Dr. Upton
Dr. Upton: Will the Minister give a commitment that whatever system is introduced it will maintain equality between different income groups and working and non-working parents? Is he prepared to guarantee the provision of a comprehensive service which will meet the needs of all people irrespective of circumstance or the area in which they live? Does he agree that introduction of the minimum wage will create some new burdens in terms of finance available and has he measures in mind to cope with this?
Mr. O'Donoghue Mr. O'Donoghue
Mr. O'Donoghue: The structure of the labour force has altered dramatically in recent decades. Twenty years ago the number of women in the workforce was extremely low. This has dramatically and irrevocably changed, with women constituting in excess of 37 per cent of the workforce. In these circumstances there is a need to follow the equality agenda to its logical conclusion. It is unquestionably true that unless something is done for women in disadvantaged areas they cannot have the kind of equality of opportunity to enter the workforce as women in a more advantaged situation. The child care programme which I funded in 1998 concentrated very heavily on attempting to bring about equality. In this context I believe it is necessary to expand the private projects to ensure funding goes to disadvantaged areas and that women who are disadvantaged for one reason or another are not prohibited from entering the labour force because of child minding responsibilities. We have embarked upon an enlightened path which strikes the correct balance.
Mr. Higgins (Mayo) Mr. Higgins (Mayo)
Mr. Higgins (Mayo): Does the Minister recall that An Action Programme for the Millennium includes under the heading "Children" a specific commitment as follows: "Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats in Government will implement the Child Care Act in full, including——
An Ceann Comhairle Séamus Pattison
An Ceann Comhairle: It is not in order to quote during Question Time.
Mr. Higgins (Mayo) Mr. Higgins (Mayo)
Mr. Higgins (Mayo): I know that, but I have the phrase off by heart. I do not want amnesia to take over. Does the Minister recall the commitment which continues "provisions relating to the [802] regulation of child care and cre che facilities"? After seventeen months will the Minister say where the regulations in relation to child care and cre che facilities are? Does he agree we have gone past the stage of pilot projects or extending them? Is he aware that we have a major crisis, that work outside the home for women is no longer an option but a necessity in the vast majority of cases? Is he not aware that women are prevented from working because of a lack of affordable child care facilities? Surely he is aware that the gap is being filled by up to 30,000 people providing child care facilities in the black economy? Is there not an urgent need to put properly organised management of child care in place to enable women to go to work, which is not an option for them but a necessity in the vast majority of cases? Those women are entitled to the mental assurance that their children are in safe custody.
Mr. O'Donoghue Mr. O'Donoghue
Mr. O'Donoghue: One of the difficulties with the equality portfolio is that the area of responsibility straddles other Departments.
Mr. Higgins (Mayo) Mr. Higgins (Mayo)
Mr. Higgins (Mayo): Why not give it to the Minister of State, Deputy Wallace?
Mr. O'Donoghue Mr. O'Donoghue
Mr. O'Donoghue: Child care is a matter for the Minister for Health and Children. However, I will try to answer the Deputy within the confines of the remit of my Department.
An expert working group was established in this area on 18 July 1997 which is chaired by an assistant secretary from my Department. The group commissioned a number of research projects which are quite comprehensive. In addition, Goodbody Economic Consultants were engaged to carry out a study of the economics of child care following a tendering process. The objectives of the study included an estimate of the current and likely future needs of children and child care, but the report is not yet to hand. I am awaiting the expert group's report, as this is clearly not an area where one devises something overnight. While I recognise the need for an integrated strategy, Deputies will appreciate that I must wait for the report.
Implementation of the Child Care Act is a matter for the Minister for Health and Children. I am involved with the equality agenda, and I will answer for my own Department in that matter. However, there is no point in setting up an expert group to look into a given area and then not await the group's report. I could be very political——
Dr. Upton Dr. Upton
Dr. Upton: Oh no.
Mr. Higgins (Mayo) Mr. Higgins (Mayo)
Mr. Higgins (Mayo): That would not be the Minister's form.
Mr. O'Donoghue Mr. O'Donoghue
Mr. O'Donoghue: — and say that Deputy Higgins was in Government for long enough and he did not set up an expert group or child care initiative, but I will not go into that.
Mr. Higgins (Mayo) Mr. Higgins (Mayo)
[803] Mr. Higgins (Mayo): It is all expert groups now.
Dáil Éireann 497 Other Questions. Child Care Facilities.


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An elected official is there to serve the people, not to put more money in his or her pocket at the expense of the taxpayer. I am opposed to a pay raise of any amount for any of the elected offices in Will County. The thought of a raise for elected office holders, including county board members, should be seen by the public as outrageous.
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Questions from someone exploring the Orthodox faith...
Post: #34
Dear John,
Christ is Risen!
It isnât just you having problems with this thread. Page 3 was blank for a while and some of the posts have disappeared from page 1. Fr Simon gave a point by point answer to Eveâs list of questions back in December and included some good stuff on men and women in the home in marriage but this post has disappeared and Eves reply has disappeared too.
We discussed the Apostolic Deposit and Tradition at our weekly meeting yesterday evening in case we had got it wrong at all and Fr Simon confirmed that he used the terms Apostolic Deposit and Tradition interchangeably as in them being one and the same thing. He did say that maybe on reflection Tradition could be a better term as it allowed for things since the apostles but still reckoned Apostolic Deposit was good as although many things have been written since the apostles they should be in line with that original teaching/beliefs. He said that he received the early writings as part of the Apostolic Deposit, the Tradition, what has been received and he said he was enjoying reading the letters of Sts Ignatius of Antioch and of Polykarp. His agreed that not everything in the Tradition or Deposit of faith and practice has the same weight and that the Bible had great importance but it is never to be isolated from the rest. We were reminded that the main areas of the Tradition or source of our Faith are the Bible, the Liturgy and prayers of the Church, the Creeds and Councils and canons, iconography, the writings of the Fathers and how one should not be separated from the others. He said its important to have a more experienced guide to help us understand right. The Church is the context for understanding the Bible.
He seems to shy away from calling the Bible inspired as this word has been exactly defined by evangelicals and he does not think it should be. He said there is mystery here and likes to say the scriptures is God-breathed, as involving the breath or Spirit of God but we donât know exactly how. We accept the Bible as high in the Tradition because that is its place in the tradition, but it is in the tradition we have received and not separate from it.
It was a helpful discussion and reminded us of the source of our Faith and to help us from going wrong.
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Dear Readers, Privacy is dead. We're spied on through Google in space, by our cars, by our computers, by our phones, by our banks, by our government, by schools, by businesses, by transportation, by security cameras on poles & in stores, etc. Why are we so interesting to these voyeurs? Who is watching the watchers? Who do the watchers report to? I have my theories, I'd love to hear yours. Blessings, Dona Witmer
The Sydney Morning Herald Asher Moses September 26, 2011
Facebook cookie collection 'could be dangerous'
A cyberlaw expert says third parties and advertisers could abuse Facebook's practice – as claimed by a blogger – of tracking online activity even after users log out of the social network.
An Australian technologist has caused a global stir after discovering Facebook tracks the websites its users visit even when they are logged out of the social networking site.
Separately, Facebook's new Timeline feature, launched last week, has been inadvertently accessed by users early, revealing a feature that allows people to see who removed them from their friends' lists.
Facebook's changes – which turn profiles into a chronological scrapbook of the user's life – are designed to let its 800 million members share what they are reading, listening to or watching in real time. But they have been met with alarm by some who fear over-sharing.
Of course, Facebook's bottom line improves the more users decide to share. Reports suggest that Facebook staff refer internally to "Zuck's law", which describes Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's belief that every year people share twice as much online – a trend that has caused Facebook's valuation to skyrocket towards $US100 billion.
"Facebook is a lot more than a social network and ultimately wants to be the premier platform on which people experience, organise and share digital entertainment," said Ovum analyst Eden Zoller.
But in alarming new revelations, Wollongong-based Nik Cubrilovic conducted tests, which revealed that when you log out of Facebook, rather than deleting its tracking cookies, the site merely modifies them, maintaining account information and other unique tokens that can be used to identify you.
Whenever you visit a web page that contains a Facebook button or widget, your browser is still sending details of your movements back to Facebook, Cubrilovic says.
"Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit," Cubrilovic wrote in a blog post.
"The only solution is to delete every Facebook cookie in your browser, or to use a separate browser for Facebook interactions."
Cubrilovic is working on a new unnamed start-up but has previously been involved with large technology blog TechCrunch and online storage company Omnidrive.
He backed up his claims with detailed technical information. His post was picked up by technology news sites around the world but Facebook has yet to provide a response to Fairfax Media and others.
David Vaile, executive director of UNSW's Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, said Facebook's changes were a ''breathtaking and audacious grab for whole life data''. In an email interview he accused the social networking site of attempting to ''normalise gross and unsafe overexposure''.
''While initially opt-in, the default then seems to be expose everything, and Facebook have form in the past for lowering protection after people get used to a certain level of initial protection – bait and switch,'' he said.
Stephen Collins, spokesman for the online users' lobby group Electronic Frontiers Australia, said he did not believe Cubrilovic's revelations would see people turn away from the site in droves but he hoped users became more engaged with the issue.
''Facebook, once again, are doing things that are beyond most users' capacity to understand while reducing their privacy. That's just not cool. I'd go so far as to say it's specifically unethical,'' he said.
Collins said the only reason he still uses Facebook is to help his 14-year-old daughter on the site. He said it took him an hour to lock down his profile to his satisfaction following the recent changes.
''It's just not good enough. The default setting for any site should be 'reveal nothing about me unless I make a specific choice otherwise','' he said.
Others have compared Facebook's changes to Bentham's panopticon – a design for a prison where the guards can see all inmates but where the inmates never know whether they're being watched. The result, applied to Facebook, is that real-time sharing means we always feel like we're being watched and this then influences our behaviour.
Cubrilovic said he tried to contact Facebook to inform it of his discovery but did not get a reply. He said there were significant risks to the privacy of users, particularly those using public terminals to access Facebook.
"Facebook are front-and-centre in the new privacy debate just as Microsoft were with security issues a decade ago," Cubrilovic said.
"The question is what it will take for Facebook to address privacy issues and to give their users the tools required to manage their privacy and to implement clear policies – not pages and pages of confusing legal documentation, and 'logout' not really meaning 'logout'."
The Australian Privacy Commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim, would not comment specifically on Cubrilovic's findings but said generally social networking sites need to clearly spell out when browsing information is being collected, the purposes for which it may be used and whether it will be disclosed to other organisations.
"Good practice would also be to allow for users to opt out of having it collected," said Pilgrim.
The findings come after technology industry observer Dave Winer declared Facebook was scaring him because the new interface for third-party developers allows them to post items to your Facebook feed without your intervention. This has been dubbed "frictionless sharing".
Meanwhile, Facebook's Timeline feature, which shows users a timeline of their activity on the site throughout the years, has not officially been switched on but many are using it already. Instructions can be found here.
But inadvertently or by design, the Timeline feature also lets people see which users had "unfriended" them by following a few simple steps:
1. Enable the new Timeline feature.
2. Pick a year in the timeline and locate the Friends box.
3. Click on "Made X New Friends".
4. Scroll through the list and when you see an "Add Friend" box, those are the people either you have unfriended or vice-versa.
However, it appears Facebook has now disabled this function, describing it to gadget blog Gizmodo as a "bug".
Finally, security researchers were quick to hose down a hoax that spread through the social network, claiming that Facebook was planning to start charging users for the new features.
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Reviewed by Steve Sailer
Published in National Review, 4/6/98 (this is my final draft, so it differs slightly from the version published in NR)
Steve Sailer is a businessman and writer.
Human uniformity is the bedrock assumption of polite discourse today. Yet, when it comes to making money, humanity may now be further from equality of results than ever before. According to David S. Landes, professor emeritus of both economics and history at Harvard, just 250 years ago the average standard of living in the wealthiest nation on Earth, Great Britain, was only about five times higher than in the poorest nation. Today, the ratio between, say, Switzerland and Mozambique is something like 400 to one. What happened?
The end of the millennium seems to be conjuring up ultra-ambitious History of Everything tomes. Of these, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations may turn out to be the most sensible and enjoyable. It is not, however, a page-turner. Landes describes not just the economic history, but the technological, political, military, religious, cultural, and geographic status, of dozens of countries across almost 1,000 years. Combined with his frequent halts to pummel other authors' bad ideas, he can't generate much narrative momentum. Instead, it's a wonderful page-flipper. Landes' gruff, Walter Matthauish persona, love of argument, and inexhaustible supply of colorful examples makes the book perfect for dipping into at random.
Landes draws upon contemporary scholarship's vast accumulation of detail, while contemptuously dismissing the "Europhobia" and other blinders that keep so many academics from recognizing the main patterns in their data. (As George Orwell noted, "To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle.") Landes denounces mainstream academia's dogma of absolute cultural relativism as "an attack on knowledge," because "distinctions are the stuff of understanding." Instead, he finds that the 18th Century Scottish Enlightenment, exemplified by Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, outlined a more accurate checklist for predicting what makes winners: "markets, markets, markets;" the security of private property; patriotism in defense of the homeland; careers open to talents; trust extending beyond the family; rationalism, skepticism, and argument; curiosity about other cultures; and an intense work ethic, to name a few.
Like Thomas Sowell, Landes is unusual among modern economists in preferring words to equations. Therefore, he doesn't underestimate the hard-to-quantify but cumulatively huge impact of cultural differences. For example, he notes that everybody "comments on the quality of the [East Asian] workforce, but equally takes it somehow for granted." Digging deeper, Landes attributes the supremacy of the Japanese and other East Asians in micro-assembly in part to the "exceptional manual dexterity that comes with eating with chopsticks." Also like Sowell, he tries to avoid biological explanations for cultural disparities by emphasizing "nature's inequalities" in geography and weather: e.g., cold climates encourage hard work, warm climates leisure. (Granted, this isn't exactly news to Club Med's management, but for a Harvard professor, these are brave words, indeed.)
Still, Landes' fear of understanding biological distinctions causes his most glaring mistake: his insistence that "gender equality" is crucial to economic development. he insists "gender equality" is a necessity for growth (rather than a pleasant side effect). Males can't "think themselves superior by biology, without dulling [their] ambition." Sounds plausible, but it wasn't true in Manchester in 1770, in Pittsburgh in 1870, or in Nagoya in 1970. And it's definitely not true in the Silicon Valley in 1998, where female executives are so rare that they have formed a support group named "Babes in Boyland." Greater sex equality is far less often a necessity for economic growth than a pleasant side effect of it. Ironically, Landes here forgets the famous lesson on p. 1 of Adam Smith's book: the division of labor is the prime creator of wealth. And the oldest division of labor is by sex, as in "hunter-gatherer tribe." Today, sexual specialization keeps spontaneously re-emerging in new industries like software and drug dealing, revealing its genetic roots.
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Next, think about physical and emotional/personality traits. Here the races are arrayed in the opposite order. Blacks tend to display more of typically male qualities like muscularity, aggressiveness, self-esteem, need for dominance, and impulsiveness. In contrast, the Japanese economy benefits from a male workforce endowed with more typically feminine virtues like small fingers and fine motor skills, cooperativeness, humility and anxiety, loyalty, long-term orientation, diligence, and carefulness. Combined with their first-rate masculine mental skills, these make Japanese companies powerhouses at exporting superbly engineered machinery.
Compared to Japanese organizations, black communities tend to be physically and psychologically masculine, sometimes to the point of disorderliness. Yet a relatively high percentage of individual black men achieve fame by possessing charismatically masculine looks and personalities, without the nerdishness that Dilbert-style male intellectual skills often induce.
Like astronomer Tycho Brahe's attempt at a compromise between the theories of Ptolemy and Copernicus, Landes's notion that geography influences culture but not genes may someday be seen as a waystation between the 20th Century social scientist's flat-earthish insistence that nothing affects culture except culture, and the 21st Century's exploration of the fascinating interactions among environment, genes, and culture.
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Tickets for the July 3 evening activities are separate from daytime admission and are currently on sale at discounted prices. Until June 30, tickets are $10 for OSV members and $12 for the general public. Beginning July 1, all tickets will be available for $15. For details, call 1-800-SEE-1830 or visit www.osv.org.
According to OSV historians, Independence Day was one of very few holidays celebrated by early Americans. Aside from Thanksgiving, it was the most important and widely celebrated holidays of the time. Festivities included church services, patriotic orations, picnics, parades, dinners, and dances. Though fireworks were not common in rural villages like Sturbridge, they were used in larger cities like Philadelphia and Boston to celebrate special events.
The OSV fireworks display will begin at dusk and is planned to be larger and more spectacular than in previous years. More than 3,000 people are expected to attend the event, which has sold out for the past three years. The popularity of the OSV fireworks display is due, in part, to the relative lack of light pollution and the resulting excellent visibility.
Prior to the fireworks, visitors can hear a dramatic reading of the Declaration of Independence by Massachusetts State Senator Stephen Brewer (Barre) and hear music by the Heritage String Band. Other activities include sack races, pie-eating contests, juggling demonstrations, and magician Robert Olson. Visitors can also enter the "Patriotic Fashion Contest" prior to the start of the fireworks. Guests can bring their own picnics or purchase beer, wine, sandwiches, snacks, and soft drinks, which will be on sale throughout the evening.
On July 3, the Oliver Wight Tavern will offer Sunday Brunch until 1:30 p.m. and then re-open for a special Independence Day buffet from 4 to 7:30 p.m. Reservations for both seatings are recommended and can be made by calling 508-347-0363.
During the daytime celebration on July 4, visitors will be able to sign a giant reproduction of the Declaration of Independence and hear the document read. They will also enjoy listening to fife and drum music, taking part in a citizen's parade, and watch militia marching.
Visitors are invited to play games of 19th-century "base ball." Though similar to today's "national pastime," there were some significant differences in the way the game was played in the 1800s. The bats were ax handles and runners ran the bases clockwise, starting at what is now recognized as third base. In general, the rules were simpler and it was considered a game to be played rather than one to be watched.
Though legend credits Abner Doubleday with the invention of baseball in the United States in 1839, accounts of the game go back as far as Valley Forge in 1778, according to OSV Curator Tom Kelleher. In fact, very early forms games with balls were played in ancient Egypt, China, and Greece and by the 13th century, the English, Dutch, and Germans were all playing different early games with bats and balls. In the United States, the sport continued to grow in popularity in the 1800s, as people began to live closer together in villages like the one represented at OSV. With the move from isolated farms to centralized communities, it was much easier to form teams. The sport grew also grew more complicated as the 19th century progressed and the first game to charge admission was held in 1858 in Long Island.
OSV celebrates life in early New England from 1790 to 1840. Located just off the Massachusetts Turnpike and Routes I-84 and 20 in Sturbridge, Mass., OSV is open year-round, but hours vary seasonally.
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