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Ex-gay programs, the vast majority connected to conservative Christian denominations, subscribe to a developmental model of homosexuality: Emotional wounds from childhood cause men and women to become gender-confused, which leads them to cannibalize their God-given gender identity by having same-gender sex.
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SJ Q&A: Jordan Zweigoron, Psycho Donuts
BusinessCommunityLocalNews May 07, 2012, by Hayley Benham-Archdeacon
Since opening its first location on Winchester in February 2009, Jordan Zweigoron has made Psycho Donuts a South Bay icon.
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Real Estate Agents Losing Licenses in California
BusinessCommunityLocalNews May 02, 2012, by Josh Koehn
Jose J.R. Sandoval, his wife and three children load into the family car and drive to a residential street not far from San Jose’s Los Lagos Golf Course. With the engine off, they sit and stare at their dream house.
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Courtesy of SV411.com, here’s a quick rundown of the latest technology news in Silicon Valley, including Google’s free data storage offer, another ridiculously profitable quarter for Apple and a feature on the new ‘cool’ kids: Brogrammers.
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Xavier Campos and the $1 Million MACSA Pension Theft
BusinessCommunityLocalNewsPolitics Apr 25, 2012, by Josh Koehn 2 Comments
Jeff Rosen, Santa Clara County’s District Attorney, and his deputy John Chase announced charges against two former MACSA executives for embezzling more than $1 million in employee retirement payments
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Man Gets Naked in Security Search before Flight to San Jose
Community Apr 24, 2012, by Hayley Benham-Archdeacon
A high-tech worker from Silicon Valley stripped naked during a TSA security search last week before trying to board a flight from Portland International Airport to San Jose. The voluntary strip search served as a protest against airport security screeners in an act John E. Brennan, 49, deemed protected political speech.
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SJ Q&A: Barbara Goldstein, Public Art Program Director
BusinessCommunity Apr 18, 2012, by Hayley Benham-Archdeacon 1 Comments
Barbara Goldstein became Public Art Program Director for the City of San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs in 2004, and has since overseen the extensive development of public art at San Jose libraries, parks and community centers.
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San Jose’s cycling pedigree has been conditioned and refined for well over a century. The South Bay enjoys a special type of pragmatism, which translates into our cycling history; so, while we may not be fielding a top contender in any of this year’s Tours, Giros or Classics, a large number of fine athletes will be using equipment and financing born and raised right here.
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Egg Consumers Fooled by Misleading Labels
BusinessCommunityEnvironment Apr 12, 2012, by Alastair Bland 2 Comments
Call sparkling wine made outside of France’s designated region “champagne” and risk a lawsuit from the Comite Interprofessional du Vin de Champagne. Call a conventionally grown potato “organic,” and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s enforcement branch may show up at the door as soon as it unearths the fraud. But raise a chicken in a cage, and feel free to make almost any claim to sell the bird’s eggs.
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San Jose delays ban on Styrofoam Containers
BusinessCommunityEnvironmentLocalNewsPolitics Apr 04, 2012, by Josh Koehn 1 Comments
For more than a year, city officials looked at following up San Jose’s single-use plastic bag ban with an anti-EPS ordinance. (EPS stands for expanded polystyrene, otherwise known as foam to-go containers at restaurants.) Less than 1 percent of the Bay Area’s EPS is recyclable because of food contamination—the only facility capable is Newby Island in Milpitas—so the nonbiodegradable containers are left to stack in landfills and break apart, often choking animals.
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