My city pass chicago blog: July 2012

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Paul McCartney paid �1 for Olympics opening ceremony performance

The musicians originally agreed to perform for free but the inclusion of the token fee meant that contracts were legally binding.

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Williams, Jutanugarn lead Junior PGA Championship

J.B. Williams of Danville, Ky., shot a 7-under 65 on Tuesday to take the first-round lead in the Junior PGA Championship, and defending champion Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand had a 66 to top the girls' division.

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Researchers discover new breakthrough against asthma

A study suggests those taking the cholesterol-lowering drugs statins alongside inhaled corticosteroids are half as likely to require hospital attention.

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Op-Ed: Boomers, Give Up On Entitlements

Boomers, New York Times columnist Bill Keller has a message for you: It's time to bite the bullet and cut spending on Social Security and Medicare. In an op-ed, Keller writes, "It's not our fault that there are a lot of us, but we have resisted any move to fix the system."

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Mini-Tablet is the Children's Toy of the Year

Analysis: Go into any Apple store, or check out the Apple section at Best Buy, and you will always see very small children mesmerized by the device.

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Cap Ferret holidays: Sand dunes, cycle trails and scrummy seafood

Michael Hanlon explores a little known stretch of the Atlantic coast in the south west of France. Not to be confused with the glitzier Cap Ferrat, this quiet corner is a vast sea of sand dunes and pine trees. And a secret.

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The Guardian Reaches 10 Million Monthly Video Views with Facebook Driving 50 Percent

LONDON - The Guardian has been increasing its monthy video views to 10 million, says Stephen Folwell Director, Business Development and Brand Extensions for Guardian News & Media, in this segment from the recent Beet.TV video journalism summit at the Financial Times. The paper's Facebook presence, which hosts the Guardian video player, drives as much as 50 percent of the video views, he tells Beet.TV via email. The Guardian has 6 million active app users of Facebook, he adds. In the segment he speaks about the development of sponsored content for the Web, the opportunities around tablets and connected TV's and the editorial approach to content creating at the paper. Andy Plesser

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Excessive Tweeting Takes Toll On Olympics

The staggering size of the Olympics is doing more than congesting London's street traffic - it's hampering data traffic, as well. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is pleading with fans to reduce the number of tweets and texts they're sending, as the data usage has actually started to interfere with the games. Fans are asked to keep...

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Monday, July 30, 2012

21-year-old's body found in Wisconsin quarry

Missing student search ends tragically

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Greenland Ice Sheet Melts At Abnormal Blazing Speed

In July, the surface of Greenland's ice sheet melted at an unusually fast rate. In the span of four days, an estimated 97 percent of the ice disappeared. Audie Cornish talks to NASA scientist Tom Wagner for more.

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Blake Shelton Jokes About Turtle Murder, Tells Fan to GET A LIFE!

Blake Shelton incited a major Twitter war over the weekend and was eventually forced to apologize for a tasteless joke and a string of insults... all because of a fake turtle's death.

It all started on July 27 when Shelton wrote: Does anyone know if the Eastern Box turtle is protected in Oklahoma? If so I didn't just swerve to the shoulder of the road to smash one...

NPR blogger Barbara J. King quickly responded in shock, asking the country music superstar: That turtle's life meant something- was your tweet a bad joke? Why would you be so cruel to a living being?”

From there, it was on!

Shelton especially got into it with a user named @turtlefeed, going off on her/him in reply to that follower questioning Shelton's apathy for animals:

Hey @turtlefeed. Before u make an even bigger dipshit of urself you should research on how much money I have raised to feed homeless animals... Hey @turtlefeed.. I solely have raised over a million dollars in animal rescue/conservation alone... How much have you raised? Oh. Ok. Next!

The artist eventually revealed that he was joking all along, but not before getting awfully personal in his insults:

The best part of all of this is that the dumb asses didn't even look to see that I'm not even in Oklahoma today!! I'm in North Dakota!! Do they even have turtles in North Dakota?!!! God almighty!

Finally, Shelton received so much flak for his joke and his responses that he tried to issue an apology to put an end to the back and forth:

Ok.. Now that "Turtle-Gate" is over I want to apologize for my ignorant joke.. I never ran over a turtle. It wasn't even possible.

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Belittling kids as harmful as beating, study finds

It may be the most common kind of child abuse ? and the most challenging to deal with. But psychological abuse, or emotional abuse, rarely gets the kind of attention that sexual or physical abuse receives.

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Google Fiber: Pros and Cons

Kansas City, Kansas residents got a sweet deal for cheap, fast Internet access from Google; but they're paying a price in other ways.

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Meet the Man Who Put the '@' in Your E-Mail

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New Republic: NRA Members Support Gun Control

As politicians and pundits heat up the gun control debate, The New Republic's Amy Sullivan says many members of the National Rifle Association support more regulations on firearms than pro-gun members of congress.

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Sunday, July 29, 2012

Apple-Samsung Trial Highlights Tricky Patent Wars

A trial opening Monday is the latest phase in a global campaign of smartphone patent litigation whose importance goes beyond legal maneuvering.

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Windows 8 Ultrabooks and Tablets to Feature New Sensors

Ultrabooks and convertible tablets will soon have everything from compasses and gyroscopes to GPS and accelerometers.

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Zara Phillips Makes Her Olympic Debut

Entering the arena with her home crowd (and fellow royals!) cheering was "incredible," she says

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'Extremely exposed' UK has more to lose than any other nation from eurozone collapse

Thanks to its reliance on exports to the Continent, and strong banking and financial links with the likes of Germany and France, Britain tops a danger list of countries exposed to the eurozone.

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Families of Britain's only full-time RNLI crew to leave remote peninsula which has been home to lifeboatmen for more than 200 years

Lifeboatmen and their families have lived in a cluster of homes on Spurn Point, East Yorkshire, since the early 19th century. But the current crew are to move inland next month because they have become too isolated.

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Shedding Light on Mitt Romney?s Unexplained Twitter Surge

Mitt Romney got two sudden bursts of Twitter followers over the weekend, the exact cause of which was unknown. Many observers labeled the accounts as fake, possibly purchased by the campaign or some outsider for reasons unclear.

Mashable turned to data provided by Attention and Tracx to shed some light on the phenomenon.

Romney was averaging about 3,500 new followers every day from mid-March to mid-July. Over the weekend of July 20, that number surged to 47,416 -- a sign that something odd was certainly afoot.

Our analysis revealed that the social media team at Romney headquarters didn't do anything to produce that astronomical change organically: none of his tweets or Facebook post…
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Ricki Lake On Her Return To TV Talk: TCA

Ray Richmond contributes to Deadline’s TV coverage.

Fresh from her second marriage (in April) and a monthlong honeymoon in Spain, Ricki Lake met the critics at TCA in advance of her second go-around in the syndicated daytime talk wars. Twentieth TV’s The Ricki Lake Show joins the battle on September 10, cleared in 99.5% of the country. She’ll be entering a crowded chat market that includes fellow newcomers Katie Couric,

Jeff Probst and Steve Harvey. Unlike those three, Lake has been down this road before, having had a mega-successful 11-year run (1993-2004) with her previous daytime talker. Lake began that one at the tender age of 24. Now she’s 43, hardened by life, once-divorced and the mother to two school-age kids. “I really want lightning to strike twice,” Lake said during a lunch panel. “There’s a lot of pressure, a lot of money invested in this show. But I feel like I have more to offer this time. Last time, I was just trying to be Oprah. This time, I’m wiser and more evolved.” The show is also being done out of L.A. this time (Culver Studios) rather than New York City as her previous show was. She promises “a little less fluff and more substance” this time around, even though she proudly claims to be neither ... Read More »

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