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Sunday, July 21, 2013

City Council President Sounds Warning Cry About Philadelphia?s Worker Pension Fund

(Philadelphia City Hall. File photo by Tony Hanson)

By Mike Dunn

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - The 2009 one-percent hike in the Philadelphia sales tax was supposed to be temporary, but it?s now permanent as part of the state?s solution to the school district cash crisis.

City Council President Darrell Clarke, though, thinks some of that money should go to prop up the city worker pension fund.

For months all eyes have been focused on the whopping deficits facing the school district, but Council President Darrell Clarke is also worried about the pension fund of city workers, which is sorely underfunded.

?If we don?t fix our local pension problem, we?re going to be looking at a ?School District of Philadelphia? type of (financial) scenario for the city of Philadelphia,? he explained.

Right now the city is using general fund dollars to meet its minimum obligation payments to the pension fund.

Clarke is now floating a plan that would devote about half of the now permanent city sales tax hike to the fund, with the rest going to the schools.

That?s about $70 million a year for the fund, but a big hurdle is still in place; any such change would require approval of the state legislature and governor.

Source: http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/07/21/city-council-president-sounds-warning-cry-about-philadelphias-worker-pension-fund/

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Saturday, July 20, 2013

Police in Madison Wisconsin arrested a 21yearold man who tried to sell 1500 worth of stolen golf clubs to a Play It Again S...

SbB LIVE FROM LA (Jul 18, 2013 @ 9:26pm ET)

9:00 PM: WAOW has the story of Margaretta Wolf, a 96-year-old grocery store owner in Marshfield, Wisconsin who stood up to a would-be robber that was armed with a knife: "I said you can have all the Tootsie Rolls you want but I am not opening that cash register."

8:45 PM: KDVR has video of the Denver Broncos hosting an exercise boot camp for women at the team's training facility.

8:30 PM: New York Knicks player Amar'e Stoudemire has been asked by Israeli president Shimon Peres to play for Israel's national basketball team. Stoudemire is in the county serving as an assistant coach of Canada's Maccabiah Games team.

8:15 PM: Former Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher said on Thursday he wished the team was "more honest" with him in contract talks before he decided to retire. Urlacher added that if the Bears win the Super Bowl without him, "I'd be mad because I wasn't a part of it."

8:00 PM: The Newark Star Ledger reports that due to opposition from neighbors, the New York Jets have withdrawn their application to place a helicopter landing pad at their training facility in Florham Park, New Jersey.

7:45 PM: Lakers player Pau Gasol tweets his welcome to new teammates Jordan Farmar, Wesley Johnson & Nick Young: "Let's get ready for a great season."

7:30 PM: Golden State Warriors owner Peter Guber has been tweeting photos from his visit to the Serengeti in Africa, including his encounters with an elephant and a giraffe.

7:15 PM: Southern Miss has named Bill McGillis as the Golden Eagles' new athletic director. McGillis previously served as executive associate athletic director at South Florida.

7:00 PM: San Francisco 49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks will not face criminal assault charges for allegedly hitting teammate Lamar Divens in the head multiple times with a beer bottle in an incident last month.

6:45 PM: The NFL announces that Indianapolis Colts tight end Weslye Saunders has been suspended for eight games for violating the league's PED policy.

6:30 PM: The Centre Daily Times reports the Penn State Board of Trustees has authorized $60 million to be paid in settlements to victims of convicted child sex abuser Jerry Sandusky. Meanwhile, legal costs for Penn State over the Sandusky scandal have reached $46.8 million.

6:15 PM: Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski reporters former Miami Heat player Mike Miller has cleared amnesty waivers and is now officially a free agent.

6:00 PM: Injured Chicago White Sox first baseman Paul Konerko begins his rehab assignment tonight with the Double-A Birmingham Barons as they face the Chattanooga Lookouts.

5:45 PM: The Biz of Baseball reports the Miami Marlins will host a Legends of Wrestling Night for their August 24 game against the Colorado Rockies. Former WCW & WWE wrestler Bill Goldberg is scheduled to throw out the first pitch.

5:30 PM: Colorado Avalanche center Matt Duchesne tweets a photo of himself signing a new five-year contract extension: "So excited to be part of the Avs future! Love this franchise, team and city, couldn't be happier!"

Source: http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/sbblive?eid=54114

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Friday, July 19, 2013

Old Town Fort Collins olive oil store teams with winery to offer tasting room on College Avenue

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Source: http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20130718/BUSINESS/307180046/-1/rss11

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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

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BBC promises five new HD channels by early 2014, including News, CBeebies and BBC Four

Not that they weren't pretty excellent already, but some major BBC channels are due to get 1080-line upgrades by early next year. UK viewers will get five new channels in total, with no need for any subscriptions (courtesy of Freeview HD, YouView and Freesat), including BBC News HD, BBC Three HD, BBC Four HD, CBeebies HD and CBBC HD (so long as Mr Tumble can fix his make-up). The programming will match the standard-def counterparts and contribute a promised 250 hours of extra HD content per week. There's also talk of broadcasting regional programs and variants in HD, although that proposal still has to be approved by the BBC Trust and could be a bit further off.

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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/16/bbc-promises-five-new-hd-channels/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget

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Facebook Privacy Setting HOAX - Verify Information Before You Share!

There is a thing being shared on facebook that is NOT TRUE and yet it just keeps getting shared. ?I'm so sick of seeing it, I had to share here in an attempt to get the word out and hopefully put this to rest once and for all.

Have you seen this?

Attention friends and family: ?Facebook has changed their privacy settings once more!! Due to the new "graph app" anyone on facebook (including other countries ) can see your pictures, likes & comments. Over the next 2 weeks I will be posting this, and please once you have done it please post DONE!!! Those of you who do not keep my information from going out to the public, I will have to DELETE YOU! I want to stay PRIVATELY connected with you. I post photos of family that I don't want strangers to have access to! This happens when friends click "like" or "comment" automatically -- their friends would see our posts, too. Unfortunately, we cannot change this setting by ourselves because Facebook configured it that way. PLEASE place your mouse over my name above (DO NOT CLICK), a window will appear,now move the mouse on "FRIENDS" (also without clicking), then down to "settings", click here and a list will appear. REMOVE the CHECK on "LIFE EVENTS and "COMMENTS & LIKES". By doing this, my activity among my friends and family will no longer become public. Now, copy & paste this on your wall. Once I see this posted on your page, I will do the same for you. Thank you so very much.

This is a HOAX! ?Posting this will not protect your privacy. ?Your friends following it's instructions will not help protect your privacy. ?Several of my facebook friends have posted this, and even after I have commented that it's a hoax, other people have commented "done". ?

Following the instructions in the message will do nothing other than stop you from seeing much of what your friends are doing on Facebook and stop them from seeing what you are doing as well. Posting this false and misleading information will do nothing whatsoever to protect your privacy.?

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Before forwarding emails to all your friends or sharing things like this on facebook VERIFY THE INFORMATION IS TRUE at??Snopes? or???Hoax Slayer? where they list all the current crap that is spreading like wild fire and shouldn't be.

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