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Beyond Labels
Seeking Open Dialogue and Community in a Divided World
A few months ago, I facilitated a seminar on immigration at a local church. At the end of the day as I was packing up my materials, the pastor's wife approached me and said, "I'm going to be honest with you. I didn't want to come to this seminar today, but I'm glad I did."
It was clear her reluctance to attend stemmed from the fact that the seminar was dealing with such a contentious issue. But her confession raises the question of why she would be afraid to attend an event at her own church, where her husband, the pastor, also was attending, and where many of the other participants were people she worshiped with every Sunday.
Her words spoke volumes about the state of civil discourse in our country.
Our society has become filled with labels: conservative/liberal, Republican/Democrat, fundamentalist/radical. We use these labels to box people in. It's like we're forming teams. You are this or that, you're in or out, and there is no space for complexity. We learn quickly to side with a "team" and then become so entrenched in that team's perspective that space for growth, change and open dialogue becomes nearly impossible.
This dynamic becomes most evident during election years. For example, anyone who has ever shopped on Amazon knows that when viewing a particular book, a list of books with the message "Customers who bought this item also bought" appears below. Amazon provides this service in order to encourage customers to make more purchases, but for social network analysts such as Valdis Krebs it provides a lens for studying political patterns through buying habits.
Between 2003 and the 2008 presidential election, Mr. Krebs decided to track the purchase patterns of political books and periodically map the networks that appeared. In large part, he found what one would expect: that books by conservative authors formed one network while books by liberal authors formed another.
He also always found a small handful of books that customers on both the right and the left purchased. These books served as a sort of bridge between the two networks. That is until he mapped the networks once again in October of 2008, the month before the election, when he discovered for the first time that there were no books that bridged the gap between the right and the left.
In other words, the closer we got to the election, the more polarized we became as a nation.
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Mr. Krebs' analysis suggests we are giving people with whom we differ less and less space to be heard. We only read what will reinforce what we already think. We only talk with people who agree with us. We rarely seek out information to help us analyze an issue from multiple perspectives. Instead, we close ourselves off from information —and people — that might contradict what we hold to be true.
This kind of polarization not only builds walls, it creates a great deal of fear and anger, making it extremely difficult to have civil conversations on issues such as immigration, abortion or climate change.
As Christians, this trend is of particular concern. In Matthew 5-7, Christ's Sermon on the Mount is a reminder that we are not called to build walls but to be peacemakers. He encourages meekness, a thirst for righteousness and mercy. He instructs us not to remain in anger but to seek reconciliation. He warns against retaliation and judging others and commands us to love our enemies.
Acting as peacemakers and loving our enemies does not mean we must always agree with one another, but Christ's words do raise questions about what it means to be a community of faith in the context of an increasingly polarized society. Questions such as:
- What is the value of being in fellowship in a community with diverse perspectives?
- How do we create communities where all feel their voice is heard?
- When is it possible to agree to disagree, yet remain in community?
- Are there times when it is necessary to disengage from conversations or communities?
The Dialogue Project, an organization that builds dialogue among the Palestinian and Israeli Diaspora, is constantly confronted with the challenges of bringing together polarized groups. One exercise the project uses to help participants move beyond the temptation to label is called "The Wright Family."
Participants standing in a circle and, holding a pencil, listen to a short story about the "Wright Family." Every time they hear the word "right" or "Wright" they pass their pencil to the person on their right. Each time they hear the word "left" they pass their pencil to the person on their left. By the end of the story, usually two or three people don't have any pencils while others have several. However, few if any participants can answer simple questions about the story or even provide the names of the characters. The reason ?is they weren't really listening to the ?story. They were only listening for the "trigger" words, right and left.
The exercise serves as a reminder that in these kinds of hard conversations too often we find ourselves listening only for certain trigger words or phrases. When we do this we are no longer ?truly listening. We are simply waiting for the trigger that will allow us to label someone.
We all have our trigger words for different issues: progressive, illegal, choice, etc. The key is to identify them so that when we hear one in conversation, we recognize it as such, and are then able to refocus on the conversation. Otherwise, we hear only what we expect to hear rather than the nuance of a person's story and perspective that might open us up to new possibilities.
So how do we have these conversations?
In 2007 the United Methodist Council of Bishops issued a set of guidelines to help us talk about controversial matters. The guidelines were based on John Wesley's concept of "Holy Conferencing."
For Mr. Wesley, holy conferencing was a "means of grace" like prayer, communion and works of mercy. The guidelines the bishops issued are below.
- Every person is a child of God. Always speak respectfully. One can disagree without being disagreeable. As you patiently listen and observe the behavior of others, be open to the possibility that God can change the views of any or all parties in the discussion.
- Listen patiently before formulating responses.
- Strive to understand the experience out of which others have arrived at their views.
- Be careful in how you express personal offense at differing opinions. Otherwise, dialogue may be inhibited.
- Accurately reflect the views of others when speaking. This is especially important when you disagree with that position.
- Avoid making generalizations about individuals and groups. Make your point with specific evidence and examples.
- Make use of facilitators and mediators.
- Remember that people are defined, ultimately, by their relationship with God — not by the flaws we discover, or think we discover, in their views and actions.
This year as we approach another United Methodist General Conference and U.S. presidential election, these principles are as important as ever. Let us keep them in mind so that we might seek not to build more walls but rather see these important events as opportunities for honest conversation, growth and deepened relationships with God and with one another.
Jay Godfrey is a seminar designer for the United Methodist Seminars on National and International Affairs, or the Seminar Program, at the Church Center for the United Nations, a program co-sponsored by the United Methodist Board of Church and Society and United Methodist Women. The interactive educational seminars help groups study complex social issues from a perspective of faith.


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She was born March 16, 1943, at Pittsburgh, a daughter of the late Andrew Regis and Margaret Foley Kelly.
She is survived by a daughter, SGMT Colleen Garcia and husband James of Georgia; a son, Robert Michael Huey and wife Jennifer of Mannington; grandchildren, Bryan Egress of Rivesville, Scott Egress of Rachel, Marissa Huey of Mannington, Joey Huey of North Carolina and Seane Garna of Georgia; a daughter-in-law, Heather Huey of North Carolina; three great-grandchildren, Savannah, Shane and Ayden Egress; several nieces and nephews; one sister, Margaret Hamilton of Pennsylvania; and two brothers, Andrew Kelly and Edward Kelly of Pennsylvania.
In addition to her parents, Kathleen was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Emerson Huey; a son, Staff Sgt. Sean Huey who was killed in Iraq; a sister, Maureen Kelly; and two brothers, William Kelly and Gerard Kelly.
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The development — agreed to by Iran under a nuclear deal it struck late last year with six world powers — leaves Tehran with substantially less of the 20-percent enriched uranium that it would need for a nuclear warhead.
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Please welcome Kelly O'Connor McNees, author of The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott, and Wendy McClure, author of The Wilder Life to On the Bookcase! Take it away ladies!
Kelly: Wendy, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books depict the day-to-day tasks that filled the "pioneer life" in the 1880s, especially the work typically done by women. Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, while set in long-settled Concord, Massachusetts, during the Civil War, also features details of 19th century young women's routines: sewing, knitting, embroidering, taking firewood and blankets to the poor, baking, and generally working to make the home a "haven." Anyone who tried to take my washing machine away would have to pry it from my cold, dead hands—and yet I read these books with a fascination and a sense of longing. What is the deal? Why do we love to read about this stuff?
Wendy: Oh yes—I always find these details and tasks so reassuring somehow. And I remember a line I read in Barbara Walker's introduction to The Little House Cookbook, something about how all of Laura Ingalls Wilder's extensive descriptions "seemed to compel participation." In the case of the cookbook, of course, it's actual hands-on participation, but I think any engaged reader becomes a kind of participant just by following along. These descriptions have such an intimacy to them, because through them you inevitably inhabit Laura or one of the March girls and find yourself daydreaming in their kitchens. I know I can recall butter-making with Ma Ingalls almost as vividly as my own memories of helping my mother peel potatoes.
As for that longing you mentioned—maybe it's because on some level we recognize that we're not truly there, that there's a boundary we can't fully cross, even while we know we don't really want to sew seams in muslin sheets. We know, though, that we're at the edges looking in.
Which leads me to my question to you, Kelly, since you created so many of those descriptions of domestic rituals in your own novel: What were the challenges in writing those scenes? Did you feel like you were actively creating this world—or, as a writer of historical fiction based on real people—simply entering it? Or to put it another way, what side of that divide between reader and character is the writer on?
Kelly: Whoa, Wendy. That is deep.
I think in historical fiction there is a fine line between immersion and suffocation. Just the right amount of carefully selected detail and context and atmosphere can create a vivid world. But too much of this—too much exposition and description of every object, gown, and housekeeping chore that might seem foreign to a modern reader—and we are overwhelmed by the weight of it all. Too much of this and the story gets lost. I felt as the writer I was always walking that line, trying to figure out when to expand on something (like the scene that goes into great detail about how Louisa and Anna make candles) and when to scale back to keep the story moving forward, to maintain the tension that makes characters real people to us. I think I succeeded some and probably failed some at that task. It is an ongoing negotiation. But you don't want the reader to see that struggle—you want to polish the story to a high shine so that the way it is appears seems to be the only way it could have been—if that makes any sense! So I would say I wanted it to seem as if the reader and I were just entering this world that already existed, when in fact I had to work very hard to create it in a particular way.
Speaking of craft, I have a question about your approach to memoir. A novel offers the writer ultimate control—we can change and shape every single detail. But nonfiction in its commitment to truth is much more like life: messy and asymmetrical, it can resist a tidy narrative. And yet your true story is such a compelling read! I want to know how you did it! When you first made a list of the places you wanted to visit and the people you wanted to meet in your efforts to examine the connection you and so many of us share with the Little House books, I imagine you had some idea in mind of what you would find and perhaps an idea of what shape the book would take. But as you went through the journey, I imagine that some of those expectations were thwarted. Was it difficult to make the book adapt as your understanding of Laura culture changed and deepened? Were there any experiences that worked out so differently, you couldn't include them? What dictated the structure of the book?
Wendy: It's been a strange process, Kelly, trying to shape lived experience into narrative, especially with this book. With my first memoir, I'd had a few years' perspective on the events I was writing about, and time served as a very good editor, filtering out irrelevant details.
It was definitely harder with The Wilder Life, where I had less time to ruminate on every experience AND I went into every trip knowing I'd be writing about it a month or two later. Sometimes I really had to struggle with my own instincts when I did all these things, especially when they were weird and uncomfortable (as with the weekend with the end-times-obsessed folks). I had to decide whether it was better to doggedly stick it out for the sake of the book, or just go with my gut. Usually I wouldn't know whether or not I made the right decision until I went back and tried to write about it later. Thus some of things I did for the sake of the book got left by the wayside—getting fitted for a corset, for example—because in the end it just didn't feel interesting enough to be worth recollecting.
And then there were experiences that didn't turn out anything like I'd hoped but were extremely crucial. De Smet, South Dakota, was one of the most important destinations in my homesite trips, and yet I left early. For lack of a better phrase, something "wasn't working" about being there—something didn't feel right—and after one full day there, I found myself impulsively hitting the road instead of staying another night like I'd planned. About an hour after I left, I thought, "what did I just do?" I couldn't shake the feeling that I'd blown it, that I'd made a huge mistake. It was hard to go back and write about it and figure out my reasons for leaving, but it was extremely useful, too, and I'm glad I let go of my expectations.
Speaking of expectations: What happens when your characters change course on you? Do you have a sense of where someone's story is going, or do they take the lead? I only have to worry about myself as a protagonist, but I imagine that with fiction it's much different . . .
Kelly: Fiction writers tend to fall into two camps: planners (the outliners) and pantsers (the writers who fly by the seat of their pants). I'm always a little embarrassed to admit this for some reason—maybe it feels a little like cheating—but I am a planner, in writing and in life. I can't go to the grocery store without a list, and I can't start a novel without an idea about what's going to happen. That said, even when I do have grand plans for my characters, sometimes they surprise me. One of the characters in a novel I am working on right now recently did this. Rowena is an upper-class woman who, because of her husband's death in the Civil War and her father's deteriorating mental health, has lost all her money and is trying to figure out what to do with her life. I knew she would be pretty angry about what happened, since it was completely out of her control, and I knew she would start to resent her friends who continued to live comfortable lives. But I wasn't sure exactly how she would express what she was feeling. Then one day I was writing a scene in which a friend comes to visit, and out of nowhere, Rowena steals a brooch off the woman's coat as she hangs it up in the hall. I thought it was an isolated incident, but a few scenes later she was stealing again. I had not planned for this, but Rowena has a mind of her own.
Those little surprises happen, I think, when the character becomes real enough to be a whole person who (strange as it sounds) really is capable of acting independently of your will. The trick is to have a plan but a loose plan, so that the characters can change it.
Last question for you, Wendy—what are you working on now?
Wendy: I'd love to say I'm working on a book, but the truth is that I'm working on planning my wedding next month! But at my job at Albert Whitman and Company, we've just launched our young adult imprint, so in between all the craft store shopping excursions, I'm still getting my new-book excitement fix in. Hoping that once the dust and the petals settle, I can start on something new, the way you are.
Kelly: Oh, boy. Planning a novel has nothing on planning a wedding. Wishing you and your sweetie a lifetime of happiness, with lots of time for reading and writing!
Thanks Kelly and Wendy!
Kelly O'Connor McNees is a former editorial assistant and English teacher. Originally from Michigan, she now resides with her husband in Chicago.
Wendy McClure has been writing about her obsessions online and in print for nearly a decade. In addition to her 2005 memoir, I'm Not the New Me, she is a columnist for BUST magazine and has contributed to The New York Times Magazine. McClure holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She lives in Chicago, where she is a senior editor at the children's book publisher Albert Whitman & Company.


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Microsoft announced today that it has rolled out a public test version of its Windows Thin PC (WinTPC) software technology.
WinTPC is described by Microsoft as a "locked down version of Windows 7" that's designed to allow organizations to reuse their PCs, including older equipment, as thin clients. It's the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) successor to Microsoft's Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs solution, which is based on Windows XP Service Pack 3.
The WinTPC solution will be available to customers with the Software Assurance licensing option in place. Software Assurance is an added licensing cost that provides educational resources and no-cost software upgrades within the specific contract interval. However, even though users must have Software Assurance to use WinTPC, the community technology preview (CTP), announced today, will be open to all to try.
The public CTP of WinTPC is currently available at the Microsoft Connect portal here (requires Windows Live ID sign-up). At that page, look for the Windows Embedded Standard product, and there will be a link to join the WinTPC trial.
One of the benefits of using WinTPC for thin clients is that it doesn't require organizations to sign up for a Windows Virtual Desktop Access (VDA) license. The VDA license is an extra cost for thin-client Windows users because, according to Microsoft's licensing scheme, the use of thin clients for VDI deployments isn't included as a benefit of Software Assurance licensing.
WinTPC will tap Microsoft's RemoteFX technology, which is incorporated into Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1, to enable a rich graphics experience on a remotely hosted desktop. Microsoft has typically said that RemoteFX runs applications with its Aero user interface, which was first introduced in Windows Vista. RemoteFX also can support intense graphics, such as CAD drawing programs, on thin clients, Microsoft claims.
Users will also be able to use System Center Configuration Manager to deploy WinTPC images and manage those virtual desktops. Microsoft also added write filter support with this CTP release. The write filter support is a security measure that can help organizations better manage the security of endpoint devices.
HP and Wyse Technologies are working on new thin-client devices based on the Windows Embedded operating systems, but Microsoft is claiming that older "legacy" PCs and devices can be used with WinTPC. The options include using devices with lower RAM and CPU capacity. Microsoft's views on the types of hardware that can be used with WinTPC are described in this blog post.
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Further to Adam's comments, if you want to deliver WinTPC to re-purposed devices, the easiest way is diskless. I've successfully tested WinTPC with the latest version of Double-Take Flex (v3.3) and its new Provisioning Wizard. Shared read-only WinTPC installations can be provisioned direct to iSCSI for diskless boot from SAN with about 5 clicks...
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Georgia fans became nervous last weekend when word traveled that Bulldogs commit Tray Matthews was visiting Auburn.
Their concern was understandable. The safety from Newnan (Ga.) High School had visited Auburn before and his close friend, linebacker Reuben Foster, recently switched his commitment from Alabama to Auburn.
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"I am still 100 percent committed," said Matthews, who's ranked the nation's No. 10 safety by ESPNU.
But Matthews still plans to take all five official visits this fall. He told ESPN he will take trips to Auburn, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee and Southern California.
And he will continue to talk to Foster and visit him in Auburn, where he attends high school. Matthews admitted that Foster's commitment to Auburn has made the recruiting process more difficult.
"(Foster) put me in a hard predicament," Matthews said. "To be honest, at one point Reuben was really leaning towards UGA. I will put that out there. He really was. And in some kind of way Alabama messed it up for him. Then he went to Auburn and (wide receivers coach) Trooper Taylor and all of them got on him. It was convenient for him to be in Auburn all the time. Then out of the blue he told me he was liking Auburn.
"I said, 'Yeah, that is a nice school.' I took a visit down there with him. I was thinking we are still going to the same school but I didn't think he was serious about (Auburn). So without even telling me one day, he committed to Auburn. I said, 'What?' He told everybody later, 'They didn't take me serious so I had to prove it to them.' So it shocked me and I am in a hard spot."
Fans of both Auburn and Georgia are making the recruiting process even harder on Matthews. He said he continues to receive messages from fans on twitter, which is against NCAA rules.
Matthews said Auburn fans try to sway him to Georgia and Bulldogs fans condemn him for taking a trip to Auburn while he's committed to Georgia.
Matthews has wisely avoided responding to the fans, as hard as that is to do.
"I feel like, 'Man, I am a kid. I can do what I want to, can't I?' I can go have fun, take my unofficial and official visits. I am still a kid and I still want to have fun on visits," he said.
Meanwhile, Matthews maintains he won't switch his commitment from Georgia to Auburn.
"That is not going to happen," he said.
Ask anyone who knows anything and they will tell you that "Troopah" is the biggest dirtbag cheat in college football. If he was so great he wouldn't be at Auburn.
Ask any Tennessee fan how great of a recruiter Trooper Taylor is, and you'll know why Georgia should be worried about this commitment. You can trace Phil Fulmer's demise back to his decision not to promote Taylor to the offensive coordinator's position when David Cutcliffe went to Duke.
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Your leaving out 2 amazing buger spots that deserves to be on the list.ReplyDelete
#1 Golden State- Its on Fairfax across the street from Canters
2. 25 Degrees in the Rosevelt hotel.
Please go eat these burgers than rewrite your top 8 list.
The Golden State has one of my favorite burgers in the city. These are new or newish burgers, which is why it's not on here. This isn't the definitive "best burger" list in LA. Just one of many lists! Thanks!Delete
25 Degrees in the Hollywood Roosevelt @ 7000 Hollywood Boulevard. There's a reason the #1 burger is #1, but you can build your own from a great selection of toppings and regional cheeses. And don't miss the sweet potato fries or onion rings here. Get a half-and-half order of those and you'll weep tears of job.ReplyDeleteReplies
Love 25 Degrees, but we tried to focus on newer places for this particular list. Thanks for the suggestion!Delete
I never would have predicted it, but the burger at La Poubelle on Franklin is fantastic. Perfect.ReplyDelete
Short Order makes fantastic burgers and the fries are greatReplyDelete
Hole in The Wall on Santa Monica Blvd. about three blocks east of the 405 (entrance around the corner on Bentley). Place lives up to its name in appearance and the burgers are the best in L.A. You select your burger and go-withs on a paper slip menu that you check off. My favorite is the beef burger on brioche with grilled onions and onion mayonnaise. The ketchup is house made and superb.ReplyDeleteReplies
I haven't been there in awhile, but yes, they're good!Delete
Seriously? No Hole in the Wall or Commes Ca?ReplyDelete
And Plan Check - yes, turn in your burger credentials, as they're revoked.Replies
We love both of those burgers! We're just highlighting some newish ones. Thanks for reminding us about Comme Ca too.Delete
Stout Burgers FTW. Changed my life.ReplyDelete
Check out Eden Burger bar in Glendale. They opened this summer are are DELISH. Totally worth checking out. NOOMMMY.ReplyDelete
Hole in the Wall is disgusting. Father's Office makes the number one burger, followed by the Blueprint Burger at Plan Check. Closing it with third place is Hot's Famous Burger at Hot's Cantina.ReplyDelete


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This document serves as an attachment to the Illinois Department of Human Services (the Department) Community Services Agreement and sets forth supplemental contractual obligations between the provider and the Department. The attachment provides contractual requirements beyond and in addition to those in the agreement and is intended to deal with the programmatic areas of the Bureau of Basic Supports.
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The Bureau of Basic Supports works through several programs to improve the lives of families and individuals by providing food, emergency shelter and supportive services, in partnership with local organizations, that stabilize households and promote self-reliance. The following is a listing of service programs funded by the Bureau of Basic Supports. The provider will provide the service program(s) specified in the attachment and in accordance with the applicable Program Funding Application and program manual.
Supportive Housing providers will deliver supportive services to low-income persons, residing in permanent housing units, who are formerly homeless or at risk of becoming homeless; or to homeless persons residing in transitional facilities who are prepared to move into permanent housing as specified in the provider's program plan. Supportive Housing providers must provide case management, advocacy, and counseling.
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Homeless Tax Write-In providers funded by the Department will provide, at a minimum, shelter, food and supportive services. In addition, the provider may provide prevention services to homeless persons or persons at-risk of becoming homeless. Homeless Tax Write-In providers may make equipment or facility-related purchases or capital improvements to their shelters using Homeless Tax Write-In funds.
The Bureau of Basic Supports manages several special projects related to health, homelessness, and food distribution and nutrition in Illinois. Special projects include a monthly newsletter managed by a not-for-profit organization contracted by the Department. A health related special project is managed by a local not-for-profit provider and is directed toward indigent individuals in need of life-sustaining pharmaceuticals. Special projects related to food and commodity distribution issues include the TANF Food Purchase Program which provides Federal funds to purchase additional food for distribution to TANF-eligible families and the Hunger Relief Tax Check-Off Program which provides State Funds (contributed voluntarily by Illinois residents while filing their State Income Taxes) to purchase additional food for distribution to eligible households. During the fiscal year, both ongoing and new special projects may be required to address the varying needs of the participants served by the Bureau of Basic Supports as well as any related needs of the Department. Services will be negotiated individually and may be restricted to target populations, specified communities or geographical areas. The Department shall establish terms and conditions regarding payment and program requirements.
All contractors (i.e., foodbanks) under the Emergency Food Program (EFP) provide storage, handling and distribution of both USDA commodities and privately donated/purchased food in a specifically designated county based geographic service area, through a network of EFP contracted distribution sites. The distribution sites are food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters, which provide direct service to the eligible public.
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The Hunger Relief Tax Check-Off Program provides grants to contracted Food Banks to purchase additional food for distribution to needy households and related supplies. Food is distributed through each Food Bank's network of food pantries, soup kitchens and homeless shelters serving every county in Illinois. Hunger Relief Tax check-Off grant awards are made available as a result of a designated State Treasury Fund that allows Illinois residents to make voluntary contributuions while filing their state income taxes.
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All providers are required to have on file with the Bureau of Basic Supports an approved Funding Application and Program Budget. These Funding Applications should outline program services, deliverables, service population, facility descriptions, staffing plans, case management, supportive services, food bank participation, Continuum of Care participation, matching funds, as well as providing a budget and address participant case record requirements. The Funding Application will serve as the formal statement of requirements between the provider and the Department. Any modifications or amendments to the Funding Application must be submitted by the provider in writing and are subject to approval by the Department's Bureau of Basic Supports. Homeless Prevention providers are allowed to move funds within the rent, security deposit and utility cost categories or from the supportive services category into the rent, security deposit and utility categories without prior approval. EFP providers may move funds within approved budget line items without prior approval.
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October 6, 2012
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Question: Put down the Trojan Kool-Aid. Title-game hopes? Now, if you're talking about Alamo Bowl title hopes, then we're in the realm of reality.
Tim Donovan
Answer: For the record, I much prefer Trojan Tang because it's easier to mix in my 42-ounce Tommy Trojan thermos with my giant USC No. 1 foam finger.
Except I graduated from Cal State Fullerton and married into Stanford.
And hey, don't knock the Alamo Bowl. That would be a big upgrade for USC players who have never participated in a postseason game staged in a football stadium. (The Emerald Bowl was at a tricked-up baseball yard in San Francisco.)
And what I was foam-finger pointing out about USC was a path for the Trojans to get back in the title-game conversation following the horrific seven-point defeat at top-20 Stanford.
The fine folks at Mailbag, including dozens of technicians, fact-checkers, rewrite men, makeup artists and gaffers, prefer to look at the positive.
USC certainly has the talent and schedule strength to climb back into contention, although it didn't look good when the Trojans were down, 14-0, early against Utah.
The Trojans played a sloppy, mistake-filled game in Salt Lake City, but still showed the resilience and fortitude to rally back from the abyss.
I see through my myopic kaleidoscope USC getting better as the year goes on, which is what happened last year on the way to 10 wins. The Trojans right now remind me of a Lamborghini running on peanut butter oil, sputtering between gear shifts.
Q: Oregon State is No. 1 in two BCS computer polls (Colley & Massey), Notre Dame No. 2. As if the BCS system wasn't already a joke.
A: Breaking news since you fired off that tweet of indignation about Beaver Nation: Oregon State is now No. 1 in three of the six BCS computers. Anderson-Hester has also checked in with Corvallis on top.
Mike Riley is going to go broke buying In-N-Out burgers.
The stock answer for these early-season poll anomalies is that rankings really don't mean anything until mid-October.
But guess what? It's almost mid-October. It's not that early. The first BCS standings will be released a week from Sunday.
I love what Oregon State has already done this season and say the rankings are justified in the sense the Beavers are undefeated with a huge home win over then-ranked Wisconsin and a big road win at still-ranked UCLA.
Oregon State followed up with another win at improved Arizona. It's not the Beavers' fault they weren't ranked going into the season.
Oregon State's BCS computer numbers should continue to dazzle if the Beavers keep winning, but the problem is going to be the polls. Oregon State is still only No. 14 in the USA Today index, with the first Harris poll yet to be released.
That puts Oregon State at No. 12 in the latest simulated standings produced by BCS Guru.
Notre Dame's computer ranking also will take care of itself. If the Irish keep winning they will deserve every bit of No. 2. Notre Dame should get a real test from Miami at Chicago's Soldier Field on Saturday and also has remaining games against Stanford, Oklahoma and USC.
As if the BCS wasn't already a joke?
Hey, it's had us in stitches since 1998.
Q: Your article last week ended with a reference to burning "coaches." …Believe you meant that reference as the tradition to burn "couches." We attended the game with our son and it appears neither happened, although the Baylor coach might feel otherwise.
Kathleen Enright-Reicht
A: Very funny, (West) Virginia. And I must say you were the one and only person to catch the typo I had in last week's Rankman comments on the Mountaineers. Yes, I was referring to couches, not coaches, and I am heartened to hear neither was burned last week in West Virginia's 70-63 win over Baylor.
You could say, without any need for correction, that both defenses definitely got torched.
And while West Virginia has never had a history of burning "coaches," you guys had no problem hanging Bobby Bowden in effigy back in the 1970s. He then left for Florida State and turned out to be a pretty good coach, according to his bio at the College Football Hall of Fame.
Q: I read your columns each week with bemusement, watching you mentally contort yourself trying to explain why LSU is really such a lousy team.
Roger Bowers
A: Thanks and welcome to this week's contort report: Anyone with eyeballs who watched LSU play Towson last Saturday night knows there is something wrong with this team right now.
The Tigers might have more fault lines than Whittier.
LSU seemed uninterested in the Towson game, understandably, but that forced Les Miles to play starters deep into a game that should have been finished by walk-ons from Ponchatoula.
That performance came a week after LSU won at Auburn, 12-10.
I am thoroughly bemused that USA Today voting coaches, who seem attached to LSU like a boy to his puppy, refused to drop the Tigers from their No. 3 spot.
Any other team, from any other conference, would have been punished for such a lackluster performance against a 1-AA team.
That said, LSU is only one win at Florida on Saturday from making everything better. But it's clear to me LSU cannot repeat as SEC champion or get back to the BCS title game without an attitude adjustment and improved play from first-year quarterback Zach Mettenberger.
Q: Is Arizona State a contender in the Pac-12 South? With Utah seemingly falling off a bit, seems like they are USC's main challenger.
Braden Wolf
A: Contender? Arizona State is leading the Pac-12 South!
Todd Graham seemed like such an odd hire. He was reviled in Pittsburgh, leaving after one year, and came to Tempe with more baggage than Paris Hilton on Rodeo Drive.
Arizona State has been one of this year's surprises. Guess which team has the fewest penalties in the Pac-12, with only 21 in five games?
OK, we know Dennis Erickson and Vontaze Burfict both left the same season, but this is quite a discipline upgrade.
Arizona State averaged 79.8 penalty yards per game last year, worst in the Pac-12.
Suddenly, ASU is No. 7 nationally, allowing only 31 yards per game. In weight-loss terms, that's like losing a tire around your waist.
I don't know how ASU is doing it. The Sun Devils pulled off a shocking win over USC last year but lost five straight to end the year at 6-7.
I do think the Sun Devils can challenge USC in the South. Arizona State is 4-1 and already leads the division at 2-0 with impressive wins against Utah (37-7) and Cal (27-17). The Sun Devils crushed Illinois and lost at Missouri by only four.
"We needed that success for these guys to believe in this crazy stuff we're doing," Graham said after last week's win against Cal. "We haven't done anything yet. But I know that we're going to get better and better and better."
Taylor Kelly, the redshirt sophomore from Idaho, has exceeded expectations. At No. 16 nationally, he was the highest-ranked Pac-12 quarterback entering play this weekend.
Arizona State is off this weekend, plays at Colorado next Thursday and then hits the prove-it section with home games against Oregon and UCLA followed by games at Oregon State and USC.
We should know more then.
Q: Do you foresee Oregon or USC losing before they face each other in November?
James Bravo
A: Let's go to the schedule card:
USC plays at Washington, hosts Colorado, then plays at Arizona.
You would think Washington would be USC's toughest test of the three considering the Huskies recently defeated Stanford, the team that beat USC.
Oregon hosts Washington on Saturday, then plays at Arizona State and hosts Colorado.
I'm giving Oregon the win over Washington because the game is in Eugene, but at Arizona State could prove one of the Ducks' toughest tests of the season.
So I say there's a good chance USC and Oregon won't lose before they meet Nov. 3 at the Coliseum, but it's certainly not a lock.
Copyright © 2014, Los Angeles Times


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OH! I just thought of a drawback. I miss my babies because it went so fast.
When you space them out, you get to enjoy your first as a "baby" for about 3 years, then you have another and they're a "baby" for 3 years. So, you get a whole 6 years of having a "baby". When you have them close, their baby years over lap so you only get maybe 4 baby years. I hope I'm explaining this in an understandable way that makes sense. Especially since those are my only 2 and we're not having more, it feels as though it flew by even quicker than it would have if they would have been further apart.


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Anniston police Capt. Allen George said the victim was in the parking lot of the Morris and Ray Service Station on Dooley Avenue around 11 p.m. Thursday. The victim told police he was hanging out in the parking lot with 30 people, when a man he didn't know approached him, George said.
George said that, according to the victim's account of the incident, the suspect said the victim owed him money and told the victim, "It was time to collect."
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George said the victim told police he was "heavily intoxicated," so he went home and fell asleep after the incident. The next day, the man went to Regional Medical Center for treatment of several cuts on his face, one which required stitches, the captain said.
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