iOS 7 Preview: Control Center

Control Center provides one-swipe access to to all your settings and media controls from anywhere on your iPhone (or iPad).

Quick access to system-level toggles has been one of the most constant, consistent power-user feature requests -- nay, demands -- for years now. Everything from jailbreak apps like SBSettings to iOS 6's brief flirtation with URL Schemes for Settings made it a must-have on every geek list, come every Apple iOS keynote. And now, with iOS 7 and Control Center, it's finally a reality.

Here's how Apple describes Control Center:

Control Center gives you quick access to the controls and apps you always seem to need right this second. Just swipe up from any screen ? including the Lock screen ? to do things like switch to Airplane mode, turn Wi-Fi on or off, or adjust the brightness of your display. You can even shine a light on things with a new flashlight. Never has one swipe given you so much control.

And, based on what Apple's shown off to date, here's how it works:

• Like Notification Center, Control Center is a layer that you can slide out on top of the main iOS interface. It enjoys the same, bouncing, playful iOS 7 physics, and the same blur effect that mutes but doesn't entirely obliterate what's underneath. Unlike Notification Center, which comes from the top down, Control Center is activated by swiping up from beneath the screen, and rather than dark, smoked glass, it's given a light, frosted effect.

• You can access Control Center from anywhere on your iPhone (or iPad), including from the Lock screen.

• The top row Control Center provides handy on/off switches for commonly used settings like Airplane mode (which, when turned on, will turn off the cellular radio), the Wi-Fi radio, and the Bluetooth radio, as well as toggles for Do Not Disturb mode, and the portrait/landscape orientation lock. Black means off, white means on.
• Next is a slider for screen brightness, and a set of media controls that includes a positional scrubber, the title of the track/episode you're listening to or watching, the name of the album/series that track/episode is from, skip backwards or forwards buttons (or 15 seconds forward/back), pause/play, and a volume slider.
• If available, AirDrop and AirPlay occupy the next layer, and allow you to quickly access sheets with their individual options.
• The bottom row of icons consists of a Flashlight to toggle the LED flash on or off, and variants of Clock, Calculator, and Camera icons for quickly accessing those apps.

That Control Center functions so much like Notification Center, and even uses similar nomenclature makes it easy to understand, even for non-power-users who haven't been lamenting its absence on iOS for years. It'll give the obsessive compulsive among us nearly instant access to toggles we probably ought not be toggling all the time, but it'll also give plenty of regular people a fast, easy way to get at things as simple as media controls and even a flashlight when they need them.

Swiping up to reveal Control Center will be confusing for people who've spent any time on webOS, BlackBerry 10, some versions of Android, or even the iPad's gesture navigation system, and personally I do find the swiping up as a way to show the fast app switcher/multitasking cards much more intuitive than the double-button click. However, Android's current two-finger swipe down to switch from their version of notification center to their version of control center isn't as easy to use, and ultimately, as goes Apple and iOS 7 will go hundreds of millions of users.

As to the design itself, while I have concerns about the low contrast and thinness of the icons and typography used, overall the usefulness exceeds the usability, and hopefully the latter can at some point be brought up to match the former.

I once wrote that iOS wasn't meant for geeks, and while I still think that's generally true, with iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks, Apple is starting to show they now have more than enough love to go around.

Control Center will ship as part of iOS 7 this fall. Check out the resources below for more, and let me know -- how do you like what you've seen of Control Center so far?

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Bill could reduce illegal immigration 25 percent

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Illegal immigration into the United States would decrease by only 25 percent under a far-reaching Senate immigration bill, according to an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office that also finds the measure reduces federal deficits by billions.

Supporters of the legislation moving toward a vote on the Senate floor seized on the deficit-reduction findings by Congress' nonpartisan scorekeeping agency, along with the agency's forecast that the immigration measure would boost economic growth as millions of workers join the workforce and begin to pay taxes.

But the CBO report also found that the bill, which takes steps to prevent people coming to the U.S. illegally while offering the hope of citizenship to some 11 million people already here without authorization, does not come close to ending illegal immigration. Indeed some aspects of the bill would make the problem worse, the report said.

"Unauthorized residents would find it harder both to enter the country and to find employment while unauthorized. However, other aspects of the bill would probably increase the number of unauthorized residents ? in particular, people overstaying their visas issued under the new programs for temporary workers," the CBO report said, adding that the net annual flow of unauthorized residents would decrease by about 25 percent compared to current law.

That would amount to 2.5 million fewer immigrants coming to the U.S. illegally over the next 20 years than would happen under current law, the CBO said.

Conservative activists were circulating the finding Wednesday morning.

But a spokesman for Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., a lead author of the immigration bill, questioned that CBO conclusion.

"The report does not question the toughness of the bill's border security reforms, it just assumes that some immigrants who enter the country legally will overstay their visas," said Schumer spokesman Brian Fallon. "But the bill creates a system to track people who overstay their visas and prevents employers from hiring them, so the number is likely to be much lower than CBO projects."

The issue arose as senators were jockeying over amendments to the legislation, which would allow tens of thousands of new legal workers into the country for jobs in everything from high-tech companies to hotels to agriculture. The bill also sets out a 13-year process whereby millions could ultimately obtain citizenship, as long as certain goals on border security are met first.

Republicans have contended those "triggers" aren't strict enough and have been offering amendments to strengthen these. Authors of the legislation say some of these efforts go too far and would delay the path to citizenship.

But Republican Sens. John Hoeven of North Dakota and Bob Corker of Tennessee were working on what they hoped could be a compromise measure that would lay out numerous specific steps for the government to take in order to secure the border, and potentially call for the government to demonstrate an ability to apprehend the vast majority of those attempting to enter the country illegally before anyone already present can obtain a permanent resident green card.

Hoeven and Corker were looking at packaging their amendment with others on enforcement issues by other Republican senators in hopes of building a bipartisan consensus for the bill.

"We have some people on our side of the aisle that just are not going to support the immigration bill, period," Corker said Tuesday. "But I think there are a number of people on our side of the aisle that, if we could just get it tailored a little bit with a few other amendments, might be willing to send it over to the House. And there are a lot of people who think it might come back over here in a little better form than it leaves."

The GOP-led House was confronting its own obstacles on immigration. Late Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee agreed on a party-line 20-15 vote to approve a tough enforcement-focused immigration bill, over objections from Democrats and chants of "Shame, shame" from protesters. The measure would make being in the U.S. illegally a federal crime punishable by prison time, instead of a civil offense as it is now. It also would empower state and local law enforcement officials to enforce federal immigration laws.

On Wednesday, the committee was to take up a bill creating a temporary agriculture worker program.

The opposition among many House Republicans to sweeping action on immigration was on display Wednesday as Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, an immigration hardliner, convened a six-hour press conference outside the Capitol to highlight opposition to the Senate bill. People in the crowd held signs opposing "illegal aliens" and criticizing Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a conservative author of the Senate bill, as "Obama's Idiot."

Opposition in his conference to any immigration bill with a path to citizenship put House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, into a difficult position. On Wednesday, a day after trying to reassure House Republicans that he wouldn't bring immigration legislation to the floor without majority support from Republicans, Boehner was to meet with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, which includes many liberal Democrats who are eager to see the House act on far-reaching legislation.

In the Senate, the bipartisan bill that President Barack Obama supports appeared on track for a final vote as early as July 4.

The CBO said in its report and accompanying economic analysis that the Senate legislation would raise economic activity in each of the next two decades, in part because of the legal immigration fostered by the measure and also because millions of workers currently in the country illegally would join the legal workforce and pay taxes.

The CBO said the bill would increase gross domestic product by 3.3 percent over the next 10 years compared with current law and by 5.4 percent over the following decade.

CBO also said that the immigration bill would decrease federal red ink by $197 billion over a decade and $700 billion in the following 10 years as increased taxes paid to the government offset the cost of benefits for newly legal residents. The legislation would cost about $2 billion annually to implement over the next 20 years.

CBO also said that average wages would decline through 2025 as a result of the bill and that unemployment would go up slightly.

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Associated Press writer Andrew Taylor contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bill-could-reduce-illegal-immigration-25-percent-191257192.html

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Apple TV adds HBO Go and WatchESPN to its ranks

Apple today announced that two more entertainment options will be hitting its set-top offering. HBO Go and WatchESPN have been added to the Apple TV lineup, along with Sky News, Crunchyroll and Qello, joining the ranks of Hulu Plus, Netflix and sports from the MLB, NBA and NHL. Apple also used the opportunity to talk up some download numbers, revealing that iTunes users have downloaded one billion TV episodes and 380 million movies. At present, more than 800,000 episodes and 350,000 movies are purchased per day.

Update: As All Things D points out, the new offerings might not be so rosy for Dish and DirecTV subscribers.

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Senators turned immigration over to secret meetings and special ...

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Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, in an exclusive interview to be broadcast on The Daily Caller on Monday, savages the comprehensive immigration bill currently being debated by Congress.

Sessions, in his measured Alabama drawl, argued that being against the ?Gang of Eight?s? proposed bill does not mean that he is against immigrants or against immigration, but rather that he is against this bill on its merits, and that the bill, upon closer inspection, is more akin to shoe leather than steak.

?People want to vote for a bill that fixes immigration,? Sessions told TheDC. ?They want so desperately to have that to happen. ? The error was that a group of Senators basically turned this over to secret meetings and special interest groups and they didn?t understand the bill fully either.?

Sessions believes that the bill is too fluid and too vacuous ? especially when it comes to the numbers of people that provisions in the bill will affect and how many ?new? citizens will be created.

?The sponsor?s of the bill either don?t know or wont say,? Sessions said.

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N.Ireland police chiefs optimistic of peaceful G-8

Police trucks patrol the streets around the G8 summit venue in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland on Sunday, June 16, 2013. In a two-day meeting, beginning on Monday, global leaders will discuss the economy and exchange views on foreign affairs and security issues. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Police trucks patrol the streets around the G8 summit venue in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland on Sunday, June 16, 2013. In a two-day meeting, beginning on Monday, global leaders will discuss the economy and exchange views on foreign affairs and security issues. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Police patrol the water around the G8 summit venue in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland on Sunday, June 16, 2013. In a two-day meeting, beginning on Monday, global leaders will discuss the economy and exchange views on foreign affairs and security issues. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Police patrol the water around the G8 summit venue in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland on Sunday, June 16, 2013. In a two-day meeting, beginning on Monday, global leaders will discuss the economy and exchange views on foreign affairs and security issues. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

A woman walks between signs resting on the tents of demonstrators in a field outside of the G8 summit venue in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland on Sunday, June 16, 2013. In a two-day meeting global leaders will discuss the economy and exchange views on foreign affairs and security issues. The leaders are expected to be met with protests and demonstrators were already setting up camp outside the venue. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (AP) ? Northern Ireland police commanders said Sunday they're optimistic that the G-8 summit will pass peacefully, with only 2,000 protesters expected to travel to the remote lakeside venue for the main demonstration.

About 7,000 officers, half of them imported from Britain, are providing security as leaders arrive for the two-day summit starting Monday at a golf resort on a peninsula near the town of Enniskillen.

Chief Constable Matt Baggott and his deputy overseeing G-8 security, Alistair Finlay, said they're expecting no violence and little participation by foreign protesters. They noted that police were surprised that they didn't have to make a single arrest during two anti-G-8 protests and a related outdoor concert Saturday in Belfast.

"We are quietly optimistic based on what we've seen yesterday that this could be the most successful G-8 conference," Baggott told reporters at the summit press center.

A range of socialist and anti-globalization groups plan to march Monday night from central Enniskillen to high steel fences preventing access to the Lough Erne resort as G-8 leaders hold a working dinner expected to focus on foreign policy disputes, particularly Syria.

Finlay's forces already have formed a security perimeter around the resort that includes several miles (kilometers) of coiled razor wire and boat-based police units.

Officers spent weeks training in England to face potential crowds exceeding 10,000, but Finlay said intelligence estimates put the expected number of protesters Monday night at just 2,000.

He said very few hard-core socialist protesters who targeted past G-8 summits in Europe had traveled to Northern Ireland from continental Europe. He said police believe many this time have traveled instead to Turkey to join anti-government demonstrations there.

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Erdogan's supporters rally, dismissing Turkish protests as a 'big game'

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed hundreds of thousands of his cheering supporters in Istanbul saying, 'My patience has run out' with anti-government protests.?

By Scott Peterson,?Staff writer, Tom A. Peter,?Correspondent / June 16, 2013

Turkish police firing tear gas battle anti-government protestors after recapturing Gezi Park near Taksim Square, after an absence of 17 days in the heart of Istanbul, Turkey, on Saturday.

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Turkey?s largest city was divided on Sunday by competing shows of force, between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who staged a mammoth rally of loyalists, and anti-government demonstrators, who clashed with police on Istanbul's streets once again to protest his rule.

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After 17 days of street violence that have posed an unprecedented challenge to Mr. Erdogan?s decade in power, he told a crowd of hundreds of thousands: ?My patience has run out.?

Using language that belittled the protesters as disrespectful and irrelevant,?Erdogan appeared to point the finger of blame at everyone except himself and his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), citing instead the party's economic triumphs and democratic reforms. His supporters were similarly dismissive, repeatedly calling the protest movement centered on Taksim Square a "big game," a catch phrase that sums up Erdogan's belief that the demonstrations are an outside conspiracy fanned by foreign media.?

?I love Erdogan. Everything is perfect,? says Sedat Boyraz, a sailor among the sea of rally-goers waving Turkish and AKP flags. Few doubted Erdogan could muster massive crowds, having been elected three times with ever-increasing mandates, most recently with 50 percent of the vote in 2011.

?In Taksim it is a very big game.? All these groups in Taksim don?t want Turkey to be successful,? says Mr. Boyraz. ?Taksim is not the reality in Turkey. The reality is here,? he says, pointing to the cheering Erdogan supporters behind him, and echoing the prime minister?s own words from the stage.

Erdogan has ordered protests to end: Police recaptured Taksim Square and dismantled makeshift barricades on June 7; then last night, amid clouds of tear gas, they evicted sit-in protesters camping in the adjacent Gezi Park.

Both actions sparked nights of running clashes, calls for a mass march on Taksim Square today, and a strike by five trade unions to begin on Monday. A protest that started as a small bid to save Gezi Park trees from a development project has spiraled into an assault on Erdogan?s abrasive leadership style, with charges of authoritarian rule.

?I am your servant, not your leader,? Erdogan declared. At times in his two hour speech he called on the crowd to cheer so that ?they? ? the protesters several miles away, attempting to gather in the center of town ? would be afraid.

?The issue is not about the park, it is about Turkey,? said Erdogan, who has often used ?us vs. them? language when stating that his loyalists far outnumber the protesters, most of whom are young, more Westernized, and more secular Turks. ?They tried to instigate instability in this country but they will never succeed.?

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Erdogan noted that he had met with twice with protest groups, but with little result.

?They say, ?You are too tough.? They say, ?Dictator,?" said Erdogan. ?What kind of a dictator is this, who met the Gezi Park occupiers and honest environmentalists? Is there such a dictator?"

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Sharing Your Web Browser with Random Strangers Is Horrible and Awesome

You're never really alone on the Internet. Chances are if you're on a webpage, someone else is there too; you just don't see them. It doesn't have to be that way though. "We See in Every Direction" is a web browser you can share with dozens of other Internet denizens all at once. It is the best and the worst.

Developed by Swedish artist Jonas Lund?of Paint Your Pizza fame?as part of Rhizome?s online exhibition series The Download, "We See In Every Direction" is an incredibly bewildering browsing experience. The concept is simple: everyone gets control at the same time and things immediately devolve into madness. Depending on what kind of person you are, this is a great opportunity for some trolling.

You can download the browser and give it a try for yourself here, and get your own personal taste of the chaos. That is, assuming enough people are around to really get things kicking. There's only one way to make that happen though, so hop on and give it a whirl. Just steel yourself for all the horrors the Internet has to offer. Also pure bliss. But mostly both at the same time. [We See in Every Direction via Wired]

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Pope blesses hundreds of Harley Davidsons

VATICAN CITY (AP) ? Biker culture has come to the Vatican.

Pope Francis on Sunday blessed thousands of Harley Davidsons and their riders as the American motorcycle manufacturer celebrated its 110th anniversary with a loud parade and plenty of leather.

Thundering Harley engines nearly drowned out the recitation of the "Our Father" prayer in Latin that accompanied Francis as he greeted the crowd before Mass. In St. Peter's Square, bikers in their trademark leather Harley vests sat alongside nuns and tens of thousands of faithful Catholics taking part in an unrelated, two-day pro-life rally, the centerpiece of which was Francis' Mass.

Francis addressed them both after Mass, giving a blessing to the "numerous participants" of the Harley rally.

Tens of thousands of Harley owners from around the world descended on Rome for the anniversary.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pope-blesses-hundreds-harley-davidsons-101554640.html

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Chamique Holdsclaw Pleads Guilty to Attack of Ex-Girlfriend

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Newtown marks six months since shootings with new push on guns

By Richard Weizel

Newtown, Connecticut (Reuters) - Six months after a gunman massacred 26 children and adults at a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school, families of the victims marked the day on Friday with 26-seconds of silence and a reading of the names of more than 6,000 Americans who have since been killed by gunfire.

The remembrance event at Newtown's Edmond Town Hall was organized by Mayors Against Illegal Guns and other groups advocating for stricter gun control. The town's top elected officials, including First Selectman Patricia Llodra, did not attend.

"Six months ago today, my sister Victoria Soto was brutally murdered as she taught her class," said Carlee Soto, a younger sister of the 27-year-old teacher. "The pain is excruciating and unbearable but thanks to all of you and with your support we will somehow get by."

On the morning of December 14, 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot his mother, Nancy Lanza, in her bed, and then went to Sandy Hook Elementary School - a school he once attended - and forced his way inside. He killed 20 children and six adults before turning the gun on himself.

The massacre, which followed a shooting rampage at a Colorado movie theater in July that killed 12, and a shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin that killed seven, sparked a national discussion about gun rights and how to better protect Americans.

While states like Connecticut and New York passed a series of new gun measures, the effort to tighten gun laws, backed by President Barack Obama, failed in Washington, and opponents say the proposals would unfairly limit the rights of responsible gun owners.

Groups like Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which is largely funded by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, have worked in recent days to revive the gun control effort in Washington.

Earlier this week, the Soto family was in Washington, lobbying lawmakers to revive a bill to expand background checks on gun purchasers, which failed in Congress in April, and an assault weapons ban that was proposed but never brought to a vote.

Mayors Against Illegal Guns said it was launching a 100-day "No More Names" bus tour from Newtown that will feature rallies with proponents of stricter gun control.

"It's certainly a sad day on a number of fronts," U.S. Senator Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, said.

"Six months ago, it was unconceivable to me that we'd be standing here today, with Congress having done nothing in the wake of 20 6- and 7-year-olds being gunned down," he said.

Murphy and others are vowing to revive their push for new gun controls, especially an expansion of background checks, which is favored by most Americans.

(Writing by Edith Honan; editing by Jackie Frank)

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Solar Covers for Above Ground Pools - Home Improvement Catalog

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If you have an above ground pool then you will definitely need solar covers for above ground pools. With the use of high quality materials and special designs, solar covers do a good job to reduce heat cost. If you are looking for a cheaper way to heat your pool to your desired temperature then the best solution is to purchase solar covers. What are solar covers? Why are they so important?

Well, speaking about its benefits, solar covers offer some benefits such as reduced heat costs and increased water temperature. Solar covers are designed to maximize the use of sun?s heat. Many people are tired to heat their pool as it can be very time consuming. Fortunately, with solar covers, there is no need to deal with this situation, no need to heat your above ground pool. ?If you want to purchase this solar cover, you should know that there are some types available for solar covers. Now, let?s take a look at some of these types:

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The following are some types of solar covers available on the market today:

• Mesh above Ground Pool Covers: ?Mesh above ground pool covers are quite popular among home owners. They are made from black fine and green mesh and placed on when swimming season ends. Mesh covers are designed to keep debris and leaves out of your above ground pool. Using mesh covers, there is no need to use a pool cover pump and it can also keep the water clean. The drawback is mesh covers are less effective compared with a solid cover when used to prevent evaporation and algae.
• Solid above ground pool covers: Solid covers are made from multiple layers or single layer of vinyl. Unlike mesh covers, solid covers are quite effective when used to prevent evaporation, algae growth and deterioration of pool chemicals.

So if you have known some types of solar covers, you might want to ask why you need this one for your pool. Well, there are some benefits aside from reduced heat costs and increased heat temperature. When it comes to safety, solar covers such as solid covers will only take the weight on adults thus children won?t be able to use the pool without your permission. This way, accidental drowning can be avoided. Next, for cost saving, it is clear that you don?t have to heat the pool thus you can save more money.

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The following are some features available on Splash Pools round solar cover:

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? It is specifically designed to capture and transmit solar heat to your above ground pool

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Damn that's a huge bitch.

Damn that's a huge bitch. Maersk shipping just christened the Mc-Kinney M?ller, the company's largest Triple E class vessel and the newest "biggest ship in the ocean."

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Patients Prefer Diet Skinny From Big Docs

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With more than two-thirds of Americans now overweight or obese, finding the best way to help improve diet and exercise is key for the nation's health. So who do you trust to help you lose weight? A svelte celebrity on a magazine cover? Your buffest friend? What about a super-fit physician? Actually, if you have a body-mass-index, a BMI, of 25 or more, you?re more likely to take weight advice from an overweight doctor than a slim one. That?s according to a study of 600 overweight adults in the journal Preventive Medicine. [Sara Bleich et al, How does physician BMI impact patient trust and perceived stigma?] More than half the patients in the study see a primary care physician who also has a too-high BMI. The overweight patients may have a higher overall comfort level with docs of a similar weight class. But the downside is that previous research found that physicians who have above-normal BMIs can lack knowledge about solid weight-loss strategies. So when it comes to getting effective weight loss help, perhaps the best advice comes from the doc who can say, "Do as I say?and as I do." ?Katherine Harmon [The above text is a transcript of this podcast]?
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At least 30 injured in Louisiana plant blast

GEISMAR, La. (AP) ? Officials say ambulances and helicopters have taken at least 30 people from a burning chemical plant after an explosion in Louisiana.

Residents of the community of Geismar (GYS'-mahr), about 20 miles southeast of Baton Rouge, were told to remain indoors with doors and windows closed.

Department of Environmental Quality spokeswoman Jean Kelly says helicopters took three or four people Thursday from the plant owned by The Williams Companies Inc., and ground ambulances took 30. She did not have other details about injuries.

Kelly says tests have not found dangerous levels of chemicals in the air so far.

Louisiana State Police Capt. Doug Cain says the explosion occurred around 8:30 a.m. Thursday at the plant. It makes ethylene and propylene ? highly flammable gases that are basic building blocks in the petrochemical industry.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/least-30-injured-la-plant-explosion-162017122.html

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Group wants to knit cover for Pa. Warhol bridge

PITTSBURGH (AP) ? Andy Warhol's art doesn't often conjure warm and fuzzy images ? but a proposed tribute to him just might.

An arts group wants to cover a downtown Pittsburgh bridge named for Warhol with knitted blankets.

Allegheny County Council must sign off on the plan. But if it goes forward, the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh will use machine-knitted blankets to cover the bridge's towering superstructure while individual blankets knitted by more than 1,200 volunteers will be used to cover its walkways.

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (http://bit.ly/11yVnv0) hopes to cover the bridge in mid-August and leave the blankets in place for about a month.

After the blankets are removed, they'll be washed and distributed to homeless shelters, nursing homes and animal shelters.

Knit-the-Bridge leader Amanda Gross says, "The point is to knit stronger communities."

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Published time: June 13, 2013 09:56

Russian LGBT activists have addressed the Prosecutor General?s office claiming MP Elena Mizulina and the recently approved bill on ?propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations to minors? promote hatred towards gays.

The news was announced by Nikolay Alekseyev, one of the leaders of Russian LGBT community, in an interview with the popular daily Izvestia. Alekseyev gave no details on who submitted the complaint or when it was done.

?Mizulina should be jailed for infringing minorities? rights and inciting hatred for those who have non-traditional orientation. Millions of people suffer because of her actions,? Alekseyev told the newspaper.

Yelena Mizulina chairs the Lower House Committee for Children, Women and Family. She is one of the main sponsors of the controversial bill and has repeatedly defended it in the mass media.

?Our bill has a very particular objective ? to put a barrier between children and illegal information. People are not annoyed by gays, they are annoyed by unsolicited and emphatic promotion, by propaganda,? Mizulina told the press.

The State Duma last week passed the bill, introducing heavy fines for propaganda of non-traditional sex relations to minors. Initially the bill banned gay propaganda, but the formula was changed before the final reading after gay activists and human rights campaigners repeatedly noted that direct mentioning of gays was discriminatory.

However, the current draft stretches the definition of propaganda as far as ?promoting the distorted understanding of social equality of traditional and non-traditional sex relations.? Some Russian mass media and public figures have already noted that this can only be understood as a ban on tolerance.

The bill is yet to be approved by the Upper House and signed by the president to come into force.

LGBT activists held protests against the bill on all days of hearings (and on the days when the hearings were scheduled, but postponed) and every time these protests ended in clashes with the bill?s supporters and in eventual detentions. However, the number of protesters and their opponents never exceeded a few dozen.

As the ban on non-traditional sex propaganda was passed by the Duma it received critical comments from German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said through her government representative that the bill contradicted the European Convention on Human Rights.

The official said that German cabinet still hoped that the bill banning the propaganda of non-traditional sex would be canceled.

The head of Russian parliamentary committee for international relations, Aleksey Pushkov, promised there would be no reaction to the German Chancellor?s call.

?This call will not be heard. An acute conflict of values is looming? Pushkov tweeted.

Source: http://rt.com/politics/non-traditional-bill-propaganda-sex-612/

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ACLU sues over NSA's surveillance program, challenging its constitutionality

If you're already overwhelmed by the sheer amount of activity surrounding the ongoing NSA fallout, we're guessing that now would be an excellent time to go on vacation. Predictably, lawsuits are already being filed against the National Security Agency, the second of which is coming from the American Civil Liberties Union. Essentially, it's challenging the constitutionality of the surveillance program in a New York federal court, deeming the initiative "one of the largest surveillance efforts ever launched by a democratic government."

The suit claims that the program infringes upon (at least) the First Amendment and the Fourth Amendment of the United States constitution. As The Verge points out, the ACLU's prior NSA lawsuit (in 2008) was dismissed in a 5-4 outcome "on the grounds that it did not have legal standing to sue, since there was no way to prove it had been targeted." Given the leaked documents involved now, however, the outcome could be much different this go 'round. Of course, one has to wonder: if all of this leads to the public shutdown of the program, are we capable of trusting the same government that started it to not actually operate it in secret?

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FBI Director Hoover receives the National Security Medal from President Dwight Eisenhower on May 27, 1955, as Vice President Richard Nixon and others look on.

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Since last week?s revelations about the NSA, skeptics have questioned whether expansive intelligence powers might really lead to civil liberties abuses. From a historical perspective, there?s no need to ask: Such abuses have occurred many, many times.

Over the past century, American intelligence agencies have performed some amazing feats, outing Soviet infiltrators, hunting down terrorists, and keeping the homeland reasonably safe from its enemies. They have also used their powers to spy on millions of people engaged in legitimate political activity, and to go after critics in Congress, the media, and the public at large. Given this track record, it?s worth asking not whether such abuses might again occur, but whether we have sufficient reason to believe that they are not going to happen this time around.

To say that the expansion of surveillance powers comes with a high?and historically well-documented?risk of abuse is not to say that the NSA is interested in your cat photos. If you?ve never expressed an edgy political idea, you?re probably not at great personal risk. The people swept into the net at moments of expanded intelligence powers have almost always been outspoken political dissenters or critics of the intelligence establishment. The basic premise of the civil libertarian stance is that what happens to those people matters to all of us?not only because ?we might be next? but because the free exchange of political ideas and criticism is the heart of American democracy.

So that?s the principle: Democracy requires protecting unpopular speech, and state surveillance tends to make people quiet. Then there?s the more practical side of things. In the past, when intelligence agencies have gained broad, unfettered powers, they have often used those powers not to protect the country but to protect themselves.

J. Edgar Hoover?s FBI stands as the example par excellence?an extreme but not fundamentally exceptional case of intelligence gathering gone awry. Last week I wrote a bit about COINTELPRO, the FBI?s notorious program of surveillance and disruption against targets ranging from Students for a Democratic Society to the Ku Klux Klan. But there?s another side to the FBI?s history of abuses?one that has less to do with attacks on political ?subversives? than with the agency?s response to its mainstream critics.

Under Hoover the FBI devoted enormous resources to investigating people who publicly criticized intelligence operations or sought to challenge the powers of the FBI. Hoover?s targets extended from high-ranking members of the media and Congress down to ordinary citizens shooting the breeze. On one occasion, for instance, agents showed up to interview a Brooklyn liquor importer who had made the mistake of repeating a rumor that the FBI director might be ?queer.? After a few minutes with the agents, who reminded him that Hoover?s ?personal conduct is beyond reproach,? the man assured them that he held ?no malice toward Mr. Hoover; that as a matter of fact he thinks Mr. Hoover has done a wonderful job.?

The interview had nothing to do with national security or even political dissent. But FBI agents didn?t necessarily view it that way. Charged with protecting American democracy from existential threats, they often saw themselves as a noble vanguard, possessed of secret, high-stakes knowledge, performing dangerous tasks that nobody else would or could. In this context, protecting the country meant protecting the FBI?s institutional power, and that meant protecting Hoover. If agents had qualms about this, there was little room to express them.? To seriously criticize FBI policy, an employee would have had to do what NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden just did: give up a prosperous, interesting career and risk the wrath of a huge intelligence apparatus.

Even outside of the bureau, Hoover exercised powerful forms of control over potential critics. If the FBI learned a particularly juicy tidbit about a congressman, for instance, agents might show up at his office to let him know that his secrets?scandalous as they might be?were safe with the bureau. This had the predictable effect: Throughout the postwar years, Washington swirled with rumors that the FBI had a detailed file on every federal politician. There was some truth to the accusation. The FBI compiled background information on members of Congress, with an eye to both past scandals and to political ideology. But the files were probably not as extensive or all-encompassing as people believed them to be. The point was that it didn?t matter: The belief alone was enough to keep most politicians in line, and to keep them voting yes on FBI appropriations.

The same held true for members of the media. A critical column inevitably earned its author an FBI file. It might also come with a variety of other consequences. In 1936, when the famed columnist Westbrook Pegler mocked the FBI as a group of show-boaters, Hoover immediately removed him from the bureau?s media contact list, complaining that Pegler suffered from ?mental halitosis.? Though Hoover and Pegler later reconciled, the FBI maintained a file on him for decades, just at it did for dozens of other media figures. Under this system, damning information could be leaked to more hospitable reporters (conservative columnist George Sokolsky was a particular favorite) or held for use at some future date.

One would hope that today?s NSA has better things to do than investigate its critics in the media, and that the safeguards now in place?congressional oversight committees, FISA courts?have in fact curtailed the kinds of abuses committed at Hoover?s FBI. But make no mistake: Those abuses occurred, and under the right circumstances they can occur again.

Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2013/06/nsa_prism_program_can_we_trust_the_government_with_our_secrets_no.html

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