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OTTAWA — The game, in the end, is just a game. But for Joe West, it was a chance to — for a few hours anyway — think about something else. Something other than the fact that his younger brother, Brandon Hobdy, had been shot and killed early Sunday morning. …

US Records Highest-Ever Food Stamps Enrollment As Obama Touts Economic …JP UpdatesAs President Obama and Democrats who may be vulnerable in the upcoming midterm elections attempt to paint a rosy picture of the United States economy, one measure of the current economic climate – food stamp enrollments – appears to …

Feds to Try Tying Work Requirements to Food StampsGoverningIn a move that could ultimately change the nation's largest antipoverty program, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is asking for state proposals that would make work a higher priority under the food stamp program. The feds are looking for proposals … More: …

The 150-year-old stamps were printed in an unusual shape so they could be identified by illiterate workers More: continued here

Food stamp work requirements should be waived for all Ohio counties …The Plain Dealer – cleveland.comOhio officials have requested a waiver of food stamp work requirements next year for 17 Ohio counties with two-year unemployment rates significantly higher than the national average. Advocates for Ohio's poor called on Gov. John …

Telegraph.co.uk Collection of rare triangular stamps set to fetch thousands at South African …Telegraph.co.ukTufegdzic, who is overseeing the auction on Wednesday, said he expected to see people bidding on the stamps from all over the world. He has hopes of fetching over 800,000 rand (£45,158) for one lot of the …

The Calgary Stampeders are giving receiver Joe West the time and support he needs to cope with the death of his brother. More: continued here

Getting by on $15 a month: Cuts in food stamps squeeze localsPress of Atlantic CityLafayette Court resident Dorothy Jarmon of Cape May, (right) is one of 160,000 households in New Jersey, who had her food stamps radically reduced due to cuts at the federal level. Friends of Jarmon, also resident …

Activists urge USPS to ditch circus stampsThe HillUSPS this year unveiled a limited edition set of stamps based on vintage stamp posters, including from Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. But the more than 60,000 signers of a petition calling for the Postal Service to scrap the stamps say …

VMware stamps its imprint on OpenStack, with eye toward VM managementInfoWorldOpenStack is seen as an alternative to some of VMware's virtualization products, but now VMware is bringing OpenStack into its fold. At VMworld 2014 today, the company announced its own version of OpenStack, VIO (VMware Integrated OpenStack).and more » More: continued …