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The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, which provides states with funds to support income assistance and other services for low-income families with children, has been due for reauthorization for the past several years. The sharp TANF caseload declines during the boom economy of the 1990s have often been cited as proof of the success of “welfare reform,” but less attention has been paid to TANF’s effectiveness and deficiencies in providing a safety net and employment assistance to low-income families in the recent recession, or to the success of subsidized jobs programs operated under the TANF Emergency Fund.
It is time to have an honest discussion about what we have learned about TANF’s successes and failures and how we can apply those lessons to develop and obtain support for policy reforms that put poverty-reduction back at the center of this income assistance program.
Please join the Center for American Progress and our cosponsoring partners for a presentation and panel discussion on learning from TANF’s past and planning for its future.
Co-sponsors include: Half in Ten, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Center for Law and Social Policy, Coalition on Human Needs, Legal Momentum and Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy at Georgetown University Law Center.
the drainage in front of Avadootha Data Peetha on Mysuru-Nanjangud road is blocked. surprisingly it is a place which is used by tourists and visitors. but the authorities concerned are not bothered. besides it has become a breeding ground for mosquitoes.
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In response to the April 17 letter, I too would like to thank Tom Golisano for buying the Sabres after the Rigas family ran it into the ground. It was a great business move and saved the franchise. It was nice to see him at the games when we were winning and great to win the Presidents' Trophy in '06-'07. However, for Larry Quinn (a hero?) to think that he, Regier and Ruff were a hockey department second-to-none is delusional.
To give credit where credit is due? Should we thank Quinn for losing three of our best players, Briere, Drury and Campbell? Or for the panic signing of Vanek (7 yr./$50 mil), or for signing Connolly (2 yr./$9 mil), and Hecht (4 yr./$14 mil) to contracts? Or how about losing our scouting department of Jim Benning, Terry Martin, Don Luce, and Larry Carriere?
Quinn says "this" team would be successful. What is so successful about it, because we barely made the playoffs? Success is winning a championship. All of WNY and Southern Ontario now believe it can happen with hockey people running the team and an owner willing to spend money to make it happen.
Have fun counting your money, Tom and Larry.
Congratulations and thank you, Mr. Pegula and Mr. Black.
The Sabres are peaking at the right time going into the playoffs. The Sabres should go a long way into the playoffs and do one thing they didn't do early in the season and play with their hearts.
How refreshing to see an owner of a sports team be excited about a city and his team. Mr. Pegula comes to a town and the first thing he does is bring back the French Connection, just in time. God Bless your soul, Mr. Martin. Plus putting a Sabres reunion together, 75 plus players from 1970-2011. Thanks for the memories.
Now Mr. Wilson it's your turn. You have had years to do the same for two ex-Bills, Lou Saban and Cookie Gilchrist, who helped make Bills champions of the AFL two years in a row. It's time to put their names on the Wall of Fame at Ralph Wilson Stadium, regardless what the reasons are for them not being on the wall.
It would be a class act on your part to see that the families of Saban and Gilchrist are represented by the Bills family. Then we the fans can say, truly, Bills history is up to date.
I was pleased to read about the memorial service for former Buffalo Bill Cookie Gilchrist. This bruising runner from the championship years (1964-65) may have been the best player in Bills history.
Cookie was almost always defiant and perhaps self-defeating at times. He took himself out of a key game against the Boston Patriots during the 1964 season. Bills head coach, Lou Saban, temporarily placed Gilchrist on waivers, but quickly pulled him off. The guy was just too great to lose.
In later years Cookie demanded a fee to attend Bills reunions. None was forthcoming so we missed him. Gilchrist and Saban are not on the wall of Fame. This is a great injustice. Maybe Cookie was right all along -- the heck with them.
With the offensive line of the Buffalo Bills, the third pick in the NFL Draft, even Cam Newton, will look like Ryan Leaf -- therefore a waste of money. So Mr. Wilson that's another high-paid clipboard holder. I want that job.
Anyone who has at least a moderate knowledge of the NFL knows that it's a quarterback-driven league.
Bills fans should know this better than anyone. What has our record been since Kelly retired? The experts agree that the top QB's in the draft are Cam Newton and Blaine Gabbert. Both are expected to be selected in the first five picks of the draft. At least one of them will be available to the Bills. Buffalo must take on of these two strong-armed, mobile QBs.
I know that our defense is a sieve against the run, but this is where the football gods play right into the Bills hands. The draft class is unusually deep at defensive line. We will still be able to secure a very good D-lineman with pick 34 at the top of the second round.
Think what you want about Chan Gailey; however, he is well-regarded in NFL circles for developing quarterbacks. Although Ryan Fitzpatrick is liked and respected, his talent level falls well short of being labeled as a franchise QB. We need to get Gabbert or Newton for Gailey to develop into an excellent player and leader for the next 12-15 years.
Unless you have a defense like the '85 Bears, you don't get very far in the NFL with a mediocre quarterback. Just think, in a couple of years we could have quite a backfield with C.J. Spiller and either Newton or Gabbert. Now that would be exciting. Plus, we would have the defensive linemen we draft at the top of round two. To me, that's a recipe for success.
Regarding the Bills upcoming postion of third in the draft, Buffalo must be careful. They have made plenty of mistakes picking quarterbacks, J.P. Losman and Trent Edwards most recently. In my mind, they have a No. 1 QB in Ryan Fitzpatrick. He was without a doubt, the best QB Buffalo has had in the years.
Unfortunately, he had a dreadful second-to-last game of the season at home and then couldn't redeem himself the following week because of injury. The bad outing in week 15 shouldn't put enough doubt in the coaches and managements minds to waste another pick on an unproven college kid.
Go with Fitzpatrick, go to the playoffs. Fill other needs.
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Dancing With the Stars pro dancer Cheryl Burke and her boyfriend, model Maxwell Zagorski, have split, Burke’s rep confirms exclusively to PEOPLE.
A source close to the couple says Burke, 25, and Zagorski, 22, struggled with living on opposite coasts.
Burke and Zagorski, who has appeared in ad campaigns for Levi’s and Abercrombie & Fitch, were introduced by former DWTS contestant Lance Bass last winter.
(Reuters) - A wildfire in Georgia’s Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge has forced dozens of nearby residents to leave their homes, authorities said on Sunday, adding the blaze might not be fully contained for months.
About 130,000 acres (52,600 hectares), or almost a third of the refuge, have already burned, said Melanie Banton, a spokeswoman for firefighters and park officials battling the West Mims Fire, which began on April 6.
The refuge, which is popular with tourists, is home to black bears, alligators and sandhill cranes.
The fire was only 12 percent contained as of Sunday afternoon and more than 500 people were fighting the blaze, according to fire information website InciWeb.
Most of the fire was within the refuge, which straddles Georgia’s southeast border with Florida, but it is encroaching on private land. No injuries have been reported.
A shelter has been set up in a gymnasium in Folkston, Georgia, for 79 residents in the tiny town of St. George, Georgia, who were told on Saturday to evacuate, Banton said.
“First Responders are NOT coming door to door, because they are fighting this approaching fire to try to save your homes,” the refuge said on its Facebook page.
Shifting winds have helped spread the fire, Banton said, adding it could take until November before the blaze is fully contained.
Winds gusts of up to 25 miles per hour (40 kph) and low humidity boosted chances of the fire’s spreading on Sunday, according to a statement issued by forestry and firefighting officials.
“Anything that can burn will burn if a hot ember falls,” the statement said.
The fire burned into Florida last month and may advance into that state again, officials said on Sunday.
While much of the wildlife refuge is marshland and swamp, parts of it are prairie and wooded land.
Six years ago, a wildfire burned more than 300,000 acres (121,400 hectares) of the 407,000-acre (164,700-hectare) refuge, said Mark Davis, a spokesman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which runs the refuge.
Indecent proposals are the norm in the Hindi film industry claims author Neeta Shah in her new book "Bollywood Striptease" and actress Riya Sen seconds this, saying she too has had such experiences.
"This book has everything and I think what she has written is true. My journey has been very different because I am not so ambitious. But yes, I have been offered, I have gone through a lot of experiences, directly and indirectly," the 31-year-old told reporters at the launch of the book.
"It depends on individual to individual, it's what you choose. I have made my own decisions and I am happy with them," she added.
Riya, who herself got into trouble after allegedly being part of an MMS chain, says worrying about rumours is not her style.
"I have read my own interviews where people have quoted me when I have not even spoken to that journalist. I don't sit and cry or howl or say I am running away from India or world. I still get my work, my money, I still have the same lifestyle, my friends and same producers, directors call me. So it (rumours) doesn't affect me," said Riya, who was last seen in "Benny and Babloo".
Daughter of yesteryears actress Moon Moon Sen, Riya's journey in Bollywood began with "Style" in 2001. She has featured in films like "Dil Vil Pyar Vyar", "Jhankaar Beats" and "Shaadi No. 1" and is currently working in "Krrish 2", in which she plays Vivek Oberoi's girlfriend.
Fourth graders Shayden McNew (left), 9, and Jack Ager (right), 8, take turns reading paragraphs from "Diary of a Whimpy Kid: Old School" in Erin Lind's classroom at Littlejohn Elementary School in DeKalb on Friday, Dec. 11, 2015. Littlejohn Elementary School scored amongest the highest in DeKalb Dist. 428 with their Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) scores.
It's been nearly eight years since David Marshall last visited Celtic Park, an astonishing fact given how much the club meant to him as a boy and as a young goalkeeper making his way in the game.
Eight years since he left and even longer since he last played there. Now we're really going back in time. The visitors on that August day in 2006 were a Hibs team including Scott Brown, Steven Whittaker and Steven Fletcher. In Celtic's ranks - Marshall and Aiden McGeady. Spot the odd man out.
Brown opened the scoring, but the game was won with two goals in four minutes from Maciej Zurawski and Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink. "Wow! Long time ago," says Marshall with a smile. "Aye, I left for Norwich in January 2007 and I've never been back to Celtic Park since. Not on purpose, but it's just the way things have worked out. I've been to a few Old Firm games at Ibrox, but never Celtic Park. Strange, isn't it? For years I was never out of the place."
Marshall is such an engaging character. Funny and thoughtful. His return to the east end of Glasgow will be exhilarating. Not just because he's going back to a ground that was once very special to him but because he's going back as number one, a status that was so often denied him when he was a Celtic player. There is no bitterness and not a lot of regret. It's the way of things, he says.
He made his Celtic debut at 17 and came on as a sub in that storied Uefa Cup game against Barcelona having just turned 19. He had Martin O'Neill as a manager and then Gordon Strachan. He had Roy Keane as a team-mate, if only for a little while. He laughs at the connections to Friday night.
The Republic of Ireland manager gave him his big break. The Republic of Ireland assistant manager was one whose every word he hung on. The Republic of Ireland's most creative player, McGeady, was one of his best mates.
"When you think about it that way, it's a bit weird. I never had any real relationship with Martin when he was Celtic manager, purely because I was really young. I'll always be grateful to him, though.
"The return leg against Barca (Rab Douglas was suspended) was incredible. At the time we had Magnus Hedman on loan in Italy and I expected the manager to call him back. Right up until the time we travelled to Barcelona, I expected Magnus to appear, but me and another young boy, Michael McGovern, went. If Martin doesn't give me that chance then you never know where you would be."
Enter Strachan. Marshall started in those fateful games against Artmedia Bratislava and Motherwell, the first of Strachan's reign, a 5-0 defeat and a 4-4 draw. "Before those games, I thought this was my big chance to kick-on as a Celtic player.
"Going down to Norwich, you're straightway involved in a relegation battle and you're relied upon heavily. That pressure and responsibility was a great way to learn. I was only 22 and it was the making of me."
"Rab and Magnus had left, so I thought things were opening up for me. But you can't concede five and four and people not question you. At Celtic, you can't do that and expect to keep your place as a defender or a goalkeeper.
"Artur (Boruc) came in and, for 18 months, he was incredible. I was never in a position to chap the manager's door and say I should be playing because Artur was probably one of the best goalies they ever had at the club.
"I didn't see it as a lack of faith in me. It was just that Artur was brilliant. I got games here and there. In and out, in and out.
"Roy came to the club and he surprised me because he took a lot of time with the young boys. He was really good. Even at dinner, he would always come over and sit with us. We had a tight group at the time - myself, Aiden, Ross Wallace, Craig Beattie. We all looked up to him. We had lots of questions for him. We all wanted to see how he worked."
Marshall played in Keane's last-ever game - a 2-0 home win against Kilmarnock in May 2006. Soon enough, he also left Celtic, heading to Norwich, where we played 100 games and then to Cardiff, where he has played more than 200. He's the reigning player of the year and captain of a club that has known volcanic activity in recent times.
"You never want to leave a club like Celtic, but it had to happen. I needed to play and playing all those games for Norwich was huge for me. It was - and is - very different in England. At Celtic, the team was so much about Henrik Larsson, Chris Sutton, John Hartson and the other big-name players. It wasn't easy, but you always felt that those guys were going to win the game for you no matter what.
"But going down to Norwich, you're straightway involved in a relegation battle and you're relied upon heavily. The mindset changed overnight. One minute, I was a young player who was in the shadow of the big players and next thing I was starting every game and was being relied upon. That pressure and responsibility was a great way to learn. I was only 22 and it was the making of me."
He's 29 now and is back in the Championship with Cardiff after a season in the Premiership. It's a grind in the second-tier, a Tuesday-Saturday, Tuesday-Saturday marathon that most thought he would be spared after a stellar time in the big league last season.
Marshall was a remarkable performer for Cardiff against all-comers. He made more saves than any other goalkeeper in the division and was hotly tipped for a move to Arsenal or Southampton.
"Yeah, there were a lot of rumours. I think there was some interest in the summer, but it never got to me, it was all done between Cardiff and other clubs. I never had to make a decision so I never got to the stage where I thought I would leave.
"You hear about it and you have mates who tell you about it. And my brother, who's football daft, would give me a phone, but it was in the summer, so that's okay. If it was in January, it might have been tougher to get on with the football.
"Cardiff has been the best time in my career. We've had our ups and downs for sure. The stuff with Malky (Mackay, the former manager) was played out mid-season, which is never great. There was so much pressure on us with a new manager coming in and, when he came in, we had Man United, Arsenal and Man City, so it couldn't have worked out any worse. It's more stable now. Russell (Slade, the current manager) is in now and he's been great. We'll pick it up, I'm sure. We won't be far away come the end of the season."
Marshall is in his pomp right now. Hugely valued at his club and number one for his country despite intense competition for the jersey. He is where he always dreamed of being.
He talks about his early years playing for Scotland and how they all fed into what he is today. The pummellings by Hungary and Sweden and Norway and Wales. The feeling that, no matter what he did between the sticks for Scotland, it was always going to end in despair.
"It called for a bit of mental strength, I suppose. I mean, there were those games we lost badly and there were other times when I was in the squad and not getting a game or maybe not even getting on the bench. You're away from the family for 10 days and you've nothing to show for it. Some challenging times, but you stick at it and the chances fall your way."
It was nothing to do with chance, of course. Marshall has earned it through his excellence.
Friday night, he says, will be an extraordinary occasion - a game Scotland must win. "There's a lot of desperation out there from fans to qualify and you can completely understand that. We all share it.
"We've started reasonably well, but we've got to win home games now. There won't be a lot in it. They have Aiden and he's become a big player for them. When they beat Georgia in the last minute, I asked afterwards who scored and they said Aiden and I said, 'Aye, thought it might be him'.
"Then I saw the goal and I smiled to myself because I've seen him do that turn a hundred times at Celtic. Just brilliant. We'll be watching for that on Friday. He won't be getting away with that again."
These are the nights you dream about, he says. The return to Celtic Park, after all these years.
‘MOON River, wider than a mile, I’m crossing you in style someday.’ The first line in the song Moon River which was the theme music of that movie classic ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’. You know what, morning is my favorite part of the day. My body refreshed, my mind clear and most of all I love my steaming black coffee. With my reading glasses on, I browse on newspapers. I will scan the heads of stories on the front page and immediately leaf through and linger at the op-ed page.
There are so many good opinion writers in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, but many of them are bias against the Duterte administration. It is friendly towards the Liberal Party. Maybe because it thrived during President Corazon Aquino’s years in office. It can be easily spotted by those who are discerning enough. We cannot argue with their editorial policy. It’s their policy. And the paper is still well subscribed. I think they have a good team of business writers. I never failed reading their buzz items. Daxim Lucas has many deep throats. Interesting reading these many blind items. I wonder if New York Times ever came out with blind items in their business page.
The Manila Bulletin is friendly with every administration and that’s why it survived the years. It was founded in 1900. The paper still sells, maybe because Jun Icban our cabalen from Lubao is the editor-in-chief and publisher. Except for Julie Yap’s column, their other columnists and contributors are no match to writers of other newspapers.
I can nominate the Philippine Star for having the most beautiful page one make up. Very colorful and well designed. Aside from the column of Alex Magno, I learned a lot from the exposes of Jarius Bondoc, a cabalen. For balance I never failed to read another cabalen Federico Pascual who is an arch critic of Duterte. And to get updated on the social circles, Millet Mananquil, the Lifestyle editor is in every activities of the perfumed set. Ricky Lo and Joey De Leon’s articles make it worth visiting the entertainment section. These are the three papers which are my main sources to know what’s happening in this country and in the world.
After the early morning routine of reading the papers, I sit for breakfast. Two eggs, two slices of bread and the heated leftovers. Getting my fill, I will go back to my room and check if there’s an on-going game on the BTV, the basketball network that carries the NBA games. I just love watching Kevin Durant, Klay Thompson and Steph Curry slaughter the opposing team with the treys and slam dunks. What I hate are the news on local channels and radios. Most of the announcers are annoying and are trying hard comedians. And they are not even funny. And sometimes even my favorite commentator, Ado Pagkalinawan wanted to be funny. He doesn’t have to. I suggest to these broadcasters to change lane and apply either at Eat Bulaga or Showtime of Vice Ganda. (Try Fox News, BBC, CNN, Channel News Asia or Aljazeera, and you will know what I mean. Their announcers are real professionals and not resorting to antics).
Each day of our life we always wanted to breathe fresh air and start the day right even a yellow flag is thrown in our field. On the other hand, thinking positive I believe we can survive all these onslaughts on our intelligence. So the holiday season is now in the air. But the cold mornings are no longer cold compared when I was still in shorts and walked with my mother, Apung Batik, going to the St. Catherine church. I vividly remember those mornings of my youth.
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