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Counties that use federal Temporary Aid for Needy Families (TANF) funds must follow certain income and eligibility requirements, but they also have some discretion.
The PRC grant funds that are a part of TANF allow counties to decide how to meet the needs of needy families striving for stability as they work to become self-sufficient or have been displaced by a housing hazard or disaster.
The county doesn't track the various reasons people apply for the funds. Aside from lead hazards, applications for rent or security deposit funds can be made after a period of homelessness, the condemnation or foreclosure of a home, or after a fire or other disaster.
The grants make up a small portion of the county's annual TANF grant allocation, which was about $24 million in 2017 and 2018.
The county provided $1.5 million in PRC in assistance in 2017, county spokeswoman Mary Louise Madigan said. In 2018, through April, grants have totaled $342,000.
Submitting applications without documents that show income or demonstrate the reason the money is needed can slow down the process. Providing proof a child in the home is lead poisoned, a lead hazard control order or a 30-day notice to vacate helps an application get approved more quickly.
Be specific about needs. An applicant must include specific details about how much assistance they are requesting and exactly what the money would be used for, such as a security deposit, a month of rent or a moving truck.
Yes Facebook is confusing, yes the team likes to change stuff, make stuff public and annoy us all regularly. But come on guys, it’s hardly rocket science, if your status updates have a little world next to them that means you’re sharing them with THE WORLD, so think before you write about your sexual exploits, drug habits and how much you wish your boss would die, because anyone could be reading them RIGHT NOW and (quite rightly) judging you for it.
To prove just how naive some users seem to be, UK teenager Callum Haywood set up the site weknowwhatyouredoing.com, a kind of experiment that collects together the most dumb, ridiculous, offensive and pointless updates from some of Facebook’s biggest geniuses.
The updates are hilariously divided up into four categories, Who wants to get fired? Who’s hungover? Who’s taking drugs? And last but not least, Who’s got a new phone number?
What’s better than saying you’d wish your boss would die? Well, threatening to kill him of course!
The website doesn’t really do anything special, these updates are already shared with everyone and anyone, but it just highlights the fact people REALLY need to be more careful about what they say on Facebook.
The updates are hilariously divided up into four categories, Who wants to get fired? Who's hungover? Who's taking drugs? And last but not least, Who's got a new phone number?
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Carlos Gonzalez (5) of the Colorado Rockies watches a pitch as it approaches the plate during the bottom of the second inning in a game against the Philadelphia Phillies at Coors Field on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018.
CarGo, are you coming back to LoDo?
With spring training officially opening this upcoming week, Carlos Gonzalez — an all-time Rockies outfielder who hit .290 with 227 homers over a decade with Colorado — remains one of dozens of veteran free agents still available.
And as each day closes without the right fielder finding a new home, one can almost feel Rockies Twitter palpitating at the thought of Gonzalez’s return.
Some palpitate in excitement thinking about another summer with one of the Rockies’ royalty, and the powerful, vintage mystique which CarGo’s swing can still summon up. Simultaneously, some palpitate in anger at the thought of Colorado spending more in the outfield when there are more arguably pressing voids behind the dish and in the bullpen.
Fueling such varied palpitations was a recent tweet by MLB Network’s Jon Heyman, in which he noted the “Rockies are interested in bringing CarGo back again”. Market probability — especially in this stagnant market — suggests it wouldn’t be a leap for Colorado to take another late, cheap flier on the 33-year-old who played under a one-year, $5 million deal in 2018.
Truth be told, I just don’t see it.
The Rockies’ outfield already has Charlie Blackmon and Ian Desmond penciled in as starters, with David Dahl the expected front-runner for the third spot. And beyond that, Raimel Tapia (out of minor-league options) will likely get reserve looks, as will Noel Cuevas and possibly even versatile infielder Garrett Hampson.
Plus, the signing of first baseman Mark Reynolds to a minor-league deal gives Colorado a big veteran bat off the bench, a role Gonzalez likely would’ve also filled.
So CarGo, are you coming back to LoDo? Certainly. Just probably in a different uniform.
Bud Black #10 of the Colorado Rockies relieves Bryan Shaw #29 after Shaw gave up 6 runs (1 earned) in the eighth inning of a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Coors Field on June 9, 2018 in Denver.
The logo of the Hartford Yard Goats is visible on a seat back at Dunkin Donuts Park, Thursday, March 30, 2017, in Hartford, Conn.
The Cboe Volatility index VIX, +4.30% spiked Thursday afternoon, reaching the highest level in more than eights months as the main U.S. benchmarks convulsed lower. The so-called fear index gained more than 12% to reach an intraday peak of 28.84, marking the highest level for the gauge since Feb. 9 when it hit 29.06, according to FactSet data. Thursday's move comes after a 44% surge for the volatility gauge on Wednesday, which coincided with an 831-point tumble for the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.21% The moves have taken the VIX, which uses S&P 500 SPX, +0.01% options to calculate expectations for volatility over the coming 30 days, well above its long-term average around 20. The gauge typically falls as as stocks rise, and vice versa. Thursday stock trading extended Wednesday's bloodbath. The Dow traded down 699 points at session lows, down 2.7%, while the S&P 500 index was down by more than 2%, and the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +0.11% was facing a more than 1% drop.
SYDNEY (AP) - Captain Alex Brosque scored twice as Sydney FC beat 10-man Central Coast 4-1 Saturday, extending the Mariners’ winless streak to 11 A-League matches.
Brosque scored his fourth goal of the season in the 12th minute after some short passes between Milos Ninkovic and Andrew Hoole. In the 24th, Brosque scored on a penalty after Mariners goalkeeper Jake McGing took down Ninkovic and was given a straight red card.
The win moved Sydney into fourth place, six points behind first-place Western Sydney.
Earlier Saturday, Adelaide United extended its unbeaten run to four matches with a 3-0 win over the Wellington Phoenix. The Reds took the lead through an own-goal just before halftime and added two more in the final 20 minutes following the send-off of Wellington midfielder Albert Riera in the 58th.
Craig Goodwin, in the 73rd, and Michael Marrone, who scored two minutes later, were the second-half scorers for seventh-place Adelaide.
On Sunday, Melbourne Victory hosts Perth while Brisbane, in second place and five-points behind first-place Western Sydney, plays third-place Melbourne City.
Cincinnati now home to best bartender in U.S.
CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19) - Cincinnati is now home to the best bartender (slash bar owner) in the U.S.
Molly Wellmann was given the honor by the Nightclub & Bar Media Group.
“Last week they called me and said, ‘YOU WON! And you can’t announce it yet because we have to have our PR people put together something,’ and needless to say, I’ve been on top of the world all week,” Wellmann said.
Wellmann is the owner of Japp’s in Over-the-Rhine and Myrtle’s Punch House in East Walnut Hills. It takes just a few minutes in the same room as Wellmann to realize her passion for pouring cocktails.
As a seventh-generation Cincinnatian, Wellmann says this is less about an individual honor for her and more about the attention it draws for her hometown.
It's a steamy Saturday in Berwyn. We're standing in the backyard of Bill Miller's yellow brick bungalow, staring through sweat at a gurgling six-foot-deep pond. Miller, a burly recently retired factory supervisor, is delivering a lecture on koi aesthetics in rich Brooklynese. "The skin has to have a texture to it that looks like a paintin'," he says. "The white has to be impeccable. The reds can't bleed into the other colors. The blacks have to look like they were just dabbed with a paintbrush on 'em, so they look like a work of art." He pauses for a draw on his cigarette, letting a moment pass before crossing the fine but inevitable line from aesthetics to commerce. "A good koi of 24 inches or so will cost anywhere from $3,000 to $10,000," he says. "In the California area, $20,000 to $40,000 is not uncommon for top quality."
Below us, under the Japanese maple and the waterfall, his herd of 16 koi cavort, smug and cool in their water world, precious agates, objects of desire. One after another they glide by for a look at us, tottering on our absurd legs, sweating and stinking in the hot air. When the weather gets uncomfortable for them, about November, they'll drift majestically to the bottom of the pond and take a long nap. They won't need to eat again till May.
When Miller was growing up in an apartment in Brooklyn, there were two kinds of pets: the ones that lived in cages and the ones that lived in bowls. He got his first guppy when he was 9 and showed his first champion at 13. He still has the trophy. After his wife, Sue, gave him a fish tank for a birthday gift the first year they were married, he dove back into his boyhood hobby, filling the basement with one tank after another of angelfish and guppies, digging a modest pond in the backyard for goldfish. Life seemed complete. Then one day about 13 years ago, Sue came home from a trip to the local mall with two small koi. "We threw 'em in with the goldfish, and then we got to like 'em," Bill says. After that, "little by little, we got rid of the goldfish." There's a term for what happened to us, Sue adds, dipping a few fingers into the pond to summon her favorite, Baby Face. ("Follows her around like a puppy," Bill says.) "We are koi kichi," Sue says. "Koi nuts."
Right now, before we get pulled too far into the current of Gin Rin (glittering scales) and Doitsu (scaleless) and generations of mountaintop breeders in Japan and shipments on El Al and converted swimming pools--right now is a good time to mention a certain four-letter word that, like the origins of royalty, is best avoided in polite koi society: carp. Yes, koi are carp. Bred like racehorses in Japan until their fabulous bloodlines, their Sumi (black coloring) and Shiro (white coloring) and Moyo (pattern), made it unthinkable that anyone would make a meal of them. There are 13 varieties, Miller says, categorized by color and pattern and the presence or absence of scales, and no two fish are alike. There are solid golds and silvers and blacks, but most have an abstract, Pollock-y pattern--splats of brilliant red against pure white (Kohaku), or inky black on metallic yellow (Kin-Ki Utsuri), or a single red spot, like a bindi, on the forehead (Tancho). With the development of plastic bags that made it practical to import the fish, koi collecting became an international hobby, especially popular in England, Germany, South Africa, and the United States. The best still come from Japan--spawned in remote mud ponds, nursed through the winters in greenhouses, all but a promising few weeded out--but in the last few years Israel has begun to supply top-quality kibbutz-raised koi. Handled properly, koi can live for 50 years.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): photo/Drew Reynolds.
In a blow to government prosecutors, a federal jury acquitted eight current and former employees of TAP Pharmaceutical Products yesterday of conspiring to win business by paying bribes and kickbacks to doctors and hospitals.
The verdict vindicating the employees, reached after a three-month trial and 23 hours of deliberations in US District Court in Boston, follows TAP's 2001 payment of a record $885 million federal fine to settle similar charges.
''The government tried to put the pharmaceutical practices on trial and failed to prove that they violated any laws," said William H. Kettlewell, a Boston lawyer who represented Donald Patton, a former vice president for sales and marketing at Illinois-based TAP.
Prosecutors argued that TAP employees offered kickbacks to doctors -- including fancy dinners, trips to ski resorts, tickets to sporting events, hefty consulting fees, and free drug samples -- to get them to prescribe TAP's prostate cancer-fighting drug Lupron and the antacid Prevacid.
But defense lawyers argued that TAP's sales force was trying to follow confusing drug-marketing rules and that salespeople did not believe they were breaking the law.
It is illegal under the federal law against kickbacks for a doctor to prescribe a drug in exchange for cash or other gratuities. However, it is common practice for hospitals to rely on funding from major pharmaceutical companies to pay for research and education.
The verdict was a significant setback for the US attorney's office in Massachusetts, which has become a national leader in healthcare fraud cases, securing record settlements from drug companies, including TAP, and criminally prosecuting company officials.
US Attorney Michael J. Sullivan released a statement saying the office's healthcare fraud prosecutions have recovered more than $2 billion for taxpayers and that the government ''remains committed to the aggressive investigation and prosecution of criminal conduct by corporations and individuals in the healthcare industry."
The government began investigating TAP in 1996, when Douglas Durand, then a TAP vice president, blew the whistle on what he said was illegal marketing of drugs to doctors and medical facilities. Shortly thereafter, Dr. Joseph Gerstein, medical director of Tufts Health Plan, also contacted prosecutors about what he considered an attempted $40,000 bribe by TAP salespeople. Gerstein allowed prosecutors to bug his office while he negotiated a drug contract with TAP representatives.
In 2001, the company pleaded guilty to participating in a criminal conspiracy by providing doctors with free Lupron samples for which doctors then billed Medicare. The firm paid $885 million for that practice and to settle civil charges that the company inflated the list price of Lupron to ensure that doctors who prescribed it would make a sizable profit when the government reimbursed them for the drug.
For help as whistle-blowers in the case, Durand received $77 million, while Tufts and Gerstein shared $17 million. Both men also testified in the criminal case against TAP employees.
Before the case went to the jury, US District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock ruled that the evidence did not prove that TAP's dealings with Tufts violated the federal law against kickbacks. He ordered not-guilty verdicts for two defendants, Janice Swirski and W. Donald Meek. The government dropped charges against defendant David Guido, who was very ill.
The charges against the remaining defendants dealt with drug representatives' dealings with Lahey Clinic, Yale-New Haven Hospital, and several group medical practices, among others.
When the jury announced its verdict just after 2 p.m. yesterday, the courtroom erupted with emotion as the defendants and their families gasped and cried. Acquitted of all charges were Patton, Alan MacKenzie, Eric Otterbein, Rita Jokiaho, Carey Smith, Mark Smith, Henry Van Mourik, and Donna Tom.
Yesterday, a lawyer who represents whistle-blowers in other cases, said the government may have gone too far in the TAP case.
''The government did very well in its civil case against TAP, brought by a whistle-blower," said Marc Raspanti, whose office is in Philadelphia. ''It may have overreached when it brought a criminal case" against individual employees, he said.
Several lawyers representing the TAP employees said drug firms often feel compelled to settle when threatened with indictment, aware that a conviction will put them out of business because they would be barred from doing business with the government, including multibillion-dollar Medicare and Medicaid programs.
''The government has a gun to [the drug companies'] head, whether they were acting legally or illegally," said Boston attorney Stephen R. Delinsky, who represented Jokiaho. ''Nobody can roll the dice."
James Moorman -- executive director of Taxpayers Against Fraud, a Washington-based group that aids whistle-blowers -- called the verdict a travesty.
''The jury has given the big wink to ripping off the old, poor, and sick in this country," he said. ''TAP paid $850 million in a big fraud settlement. The people who perpetrated the fraud have just been given a kiss on the cheek by the jury. At least we got the money back."
Boston lawyer Robert L. Ullmann -- who represents Van Mourik, a TAP district manager -- said: ''This doesn't necessarily mean that drug companies will have free rein. It's a finding that these individuals were just trying to do their best with the rules as they understood them."
Katherine Stueland, a spokeswoman for TAP, said it would be inappropriate to comment on the settlement with the government. But TAP released a statement on yesterday's verdict, saying that the current and former employees ''leave the courtroom the same way they entered: innocent."
Patton, whose mother died after he was indicted and before the case went to trial, said it had been a long, stressful ordeal for him, his wife, and two children and that he was relieved it was over.
The verdict could have a significant impact on pending cases, according to defense attorneys.
''In its instructions to the jury, the court distinguished between improper conduct and cultivating a business relationship with a physician in the hope or expectation that prescriptions might occur," said Ethan Posner, a Washington, D.C., lawyer who represents pharmaceutical companies.
''This provides needed and important clarity for the government, the industry, and for patients," he said.
ELECTION years tend to smile on the stock market. Barring the unexpected, 1992 should be no exception - particularly for sectors such as housing, finance, and home refurbishing. When the economy posts an upturn, folks rush out to buy paint, wallpaper, and curtains.
In only one presidential election year in the past half century has the Standard & Poor's 500 index lost ground between January 1 and election day, says James Stack, editor of InvesTech, a newsletter. That occurred in 1960, when John F. Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon and the Republicans turned the White House over to Democrats after eight years.
So if history is a guide, the market should be expected to continue to rise this year, even if a market correction occurs. But analysts also stress that not all market sectors are expected to do equally well. In fact, because of the uniqueness of this election year - coming in the midst of a lackluster recovery following a long recession - specific market sectors are expected to outperform the broader market. According to a number of analysts, areas with special promise in 1992 include home building, hom e refurbishing, financial institutions linked to the mortgage market, health care companies, firms relating to the infrastructure, paper stocks, and some defense stocks whose long-range programs will not be affected by upcoming Pentagon cutbacks.
"Some sectors are obvious, such as the home building group," says Larry Wachtel, a vice president with Prudential Securities Inc. That would mean companies such as Georgia Pacific or Sherwin-Williams. But at the same time, says Mr. Wachtel, investors must stay alert because of the "anticipatory mechanism" of the market.
President Bush and the Democratic presidential contenders are talking about various investment incentives, tax breaks, and special aid to first-time home buyers, designed to boost construction. But much of the potential expansion in housing is already being "discounted by the market," Wachtel says. Thus, for the individual investor, the fact that a stock is rising now may not mean that it will rise later in the year when housing is presumably posting gains.
Rao Chalasani, a market strategist with Kemper Securities Group Inc., sees a number of potentially promising sectors, including cyclical stocks such as Alcoa, that could benefit from recovery, as well as firms in the infrastructure, transportation, and environmental sectors. However, Mr. Chalasani notes that 1992 may be a year where major market gains come early. Thus investors should exercise caution when acquiring individual stocks, he says.
One sector just starting to emerge from months of doldrums is technology. Dennis Jarrett, chief market analyst for Kidder, Peabody & Co., notes that there has been "heavy buying" in that area during "the past month or so." Both computer-systems stocks and electronic semiconductors are showing some upward momentum.
A final point on the election-year market: Experts who have studied the performance of the market in prior presidential elections say that the direction of stocks and stock sectors can help point to the ultimate winner.
Mr. Stack notes that in 5 of 7 cases this past century where the Dow Jones industrial average gained over 10 percent between January 1 and election day, the incumbent party retained the White House. In each of three cases where the Dow lost more than 10 percent in that period, the incumbent party was swept out of office. There is one other factor to watch, analysts say: consumer confidence. It has an immediate impact on retail stocks. According to Stack, the incumbent party has always held the White Hous e if consumer confidence rose in the 12 months before the election. In the two cases where consumer confidence fell, the incumbent party lost.
Matilda the Musical will transfer to Broadway next year, the Royal Shakespeare Company has confirmed.
The award-winning-show, which featured music by comedian Tim Minchin, is based on Roald Dahl's children's book, about a girl with magical powers.
Auditions for the New York production are scheduled to start next month.
The show, which opened in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2010, transferred to London's West End last year, where it continues to sell out.
Written by playwright Dennis Kelly and directed by Tony-award-winner Matthew Warchus, it has received aslew of five-star reviewsfor both the original staging and the West End transfer.
Earlier this month the production won four Whatsonstage.com awards, including best new musical.
Critics and audiences have heaped praise on the show's intricate, tongue-twisting lyrics and barely contained sense of anarchy.
The lead role is played by four young actresses, who alternate throughout the week - while Bertie Carvel, who plays child-tossing tyrannical headmistress Miss Trunchbull, has been the show's breakout star.
Who on Earth Could Be Deadpool 2's Secret New Cameo?
I bet you it’s Sheriff Deadpool.
Get a look at Shazam!’s electrifying new logo. Peyton Reed discusses Wasp’s important role in Ant-Man and The Wasp. Preacher adds a few more intriguing new characters. Plus, footage from the season finale of The X-Files, Ryan Murphy confirms a few more familiar faces for American Horror Story, and more. To me, my Spoilers!
A new report from The Hollywood Reporter about the film’s reshoots and recent test screenings also includes an intriguing claim that at least one additional reshoot involved several hours in Los Angeles to add a “secret cameo” to the film. Time to start speculating wildly in the comments!
It was nothing that had gone wrong. I think it’s a common misconception too – that people think that reshoots are to fix things that people didn’t like. A lot of the time, reshoots are to add more of the things that people loved. [Filmmakers] watch their films again and are like “better fix that”. I don’t know how much I can say about that. Usually films hate it when you talk about their reshoots – solely because people think that it’s because the film was bad for the test audience – but it was all good.
In a Facebook post, Fred Dekker confirmed he’s currently in Vancouver filming reshoots on The Predator.
In the latest issue of Empire magazine, director Peyton Reed stated Ant-Man & The Wasp is “not a romantic comedy,” as previously advertised.
It was important to me, in this movie called Ant-Man and The Wasp, that she’s not a supporting character. She’s a lead character. She really was, along with Sue Storm of the Fantastic Four, one of the first female Marvel heroes. I feel a certain responsibility with The Wasp. This one explores the different generations of Ant-Man and The Wasp. I thought that was an interesting thing we haven’t seen in a Marvel movie. It’s not a romantic comedy. The idea might enter Hope’s brain: does she need Scott Lang in her life?
The new logo for the film has been revealed via the movie’s twitter account.
Warner Bros. is currently celebrating “Rampage Week” on the film’s official Twitter, which includes daily posters and an AR contest adjudicated by Dwayne Johnson, himself.
Empire Magazine has also released all six variant covers of their upcoming Infinity War issue.
Speaking with the Toronto Sun, Robert Downey Jr. cited the scene where Thor meets the Guardians of the Galaxy as his favorite in the movie.
My favorite shot in the movie has already been seen, and it’s when Thor, who’s just totally gnarled up, turns and goes, ‘Who the hell are you guys?’ and you cut to the Guardians [of the Galaxy]. I’m like sold. If the whole third movie was that scene, we’re fine.

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