LifeLabs to acquire CML HealthCare for C$965 million

(Reuters) - Canadian medical diagnostic services provider LifeLabs Medical Laboratory Services said on Tuesday that it was acquiring rival CML HealthCare Inc in a deal valued at about C$965 million ($917 million).

The deal will bring together LifeLabs and CML's network of laboratory testing services for patients across the province of Ontario.

LifeLabs, which is indirectly owned by the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, will pay C$10.75 per share, a 49 percent premium to CML's closing price on Monday.

Including the assumption of C$255 million of debt, the transaction is worth C$1.22 billion, CML said in a statement.

The boards of CML, LifeLabs and OMERS have approved the deal. CML shareholders will vote on it at a special meeting on September 3. The parties expect the transaction to close later that month.

($1 = 1.0527 Canadian dollars)

(Reporting by Euan Rocha in Toronto and Krithika Krishnamurthy in Bangalore; Editing by Don Sebastian and Lisa Von Ahn)

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Disney renames Mouseketeer stage for Funicello

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) ? The stage at Walt Disney Studios where "The Mickey Mouse Club" was filmed is now officially the Annette Funicello Stage.

Disney chief Bob Iger led a ceremony Monday dedicating the soundstage to Funicello, the Mouseketeer-turned-movie star who died in April at age 70.

Iger confessed to having a crush on Funicello when he was growing up, as many who watched the perky brunette on TV did.

Former Mouseketeers, Funicello's family and colleagues and Mickey Mouse himself also participated in Monday's dedication. Frankie Avalon, Richard Sherman and Leonard Maltin were among those honoring the late actress.

Julie Andrews is the only other entertainer to have a namesake stage at Disney studios.

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Supreme Court 2013: The Year in Review

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas prepares to testify before the House Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee on Capitol Hill on March 13, 2008.

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This is quite a news day. I can hardly imagine the spike in traffic on Slate as readers work their way through the latest developments. As others are charged with parsing the season finale of Mad Men, let me provide some brief reactions to Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the decision on affirmative action handed down by the Supreme Court earlier today.

As Emily mentions, the case is notable for ducking all the interesting questions. Commentators expected the court either to reject or endorse affirmative action by state universities, but instead the majority opinion, written by Anthony Kennedy, merely scolded the lower court for failing to follow an earlier Supreme Court decision, which applied ?strict scrutiny? to all programs with explicit racial classifications. That means that affirmative action using an explicit racial classification is permissible as long as the government can show that it advances a compelling government interest. Kennedy sent the case back to the lower court, where the University of Texas must now show that its affirmative action program?which gives some real but ambiguous weight to the race of the applicant?advances the university?s legitimate educational goals.

The real action can be found in a concurring opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas and a dissent by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Thomas rather powerfully shows how the court has boxed itself in. The court says that an overt racial classification in a law must be ?narrowly tailored? to advance a compelling government interest. The strict-scrutiny standard is very high (?strict in theory, but fatal in fact,? as many wags have put it). In a case from the 1950s, Thomas points out, the court found that racial segregation could not be justified even if it could be shown that if segregated schools were banned, white communities would strip funding from public schools and send their children to private schools, thus hurting black children more than a segregated system would. If the survival of an educational system cannot be a ?compelling interest? that justifies racial classifications, then its mere putative improvement through diversification of the student body cannot be, either.

Part of what is going on here is the diversity rationale was always phony, or least partially phony. I have spent my adult life in universities, and it seems pretty clear to me that the real motivation for affirmative action is a lot more complex than the idea that diversity improves educational outcomes, though it might. Affirmative action is based on all kinds of factors?a desire to make up for past injustices, a feeling that African-Americans should receive some advantages to counteract racism that they continue to face, a desire to propel more African-Americans into high-status positions where they can exert long-overdue influence on the direction of society, the thought that black students should have role models (for faculty hiring), and then simple liberal guilt, fear of being seen as racist, and pressure from constituencies. The Supreme Court has ruled out many of these rationales while (so far) recognizing that diversity alone can be a valid rationale, and so to a large extent universities are just pretending when they cobble together a diversity rationale for affirmative action policies based largely on other motivations. That is why social scientific evidence that affirmative action advances educational outcomes by enhancing diversity is so weak. That was never its reason for existence. And if the evidence isn?t there, eventually affirmative action programs will be struck down: that?s what strict scrutiny will demand.

So the days of explicit racial classifications may be numbered (barring a change in the ideological composition of the court). But those who oppose affirmative action because of its conflict with meritocracy have less cause for celebration than they may think. The lawyers for Abigail Fisher, the white applicant to UT Austin who brought today?s case, did not challenge an important element of the University of Texas? admissions system, which is that the university will accept the top 10 percent of the class of each high school in Texas. This rule sounds race-neutral, but as Ginsburg notes in her dissent, it was just a disguised form of affirmative action, based on the background fact that Texas schools are highly segregated. The top 10 percent of an all-black school in a poor school district will be more poorly qualified for higher education than the 10?20 percent tier of an all-white school in a wealthy district, yet it?s the first group that automatically gets to go the University of Texas. This is a crude way to engage in affirmative action, and if the court bans explicit racial classifications while permitting this kind of disguise, which universities will rush to embrace, then it?s hard to see how the law will advance the meritocratic ideal embraced by opponents of affirmative action.

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Why Hezbollah has openly joined the Syrian fight

The face of Abbas Farhat, a combatant with the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah killed recently in Syria, looms down from a banner outside his home in this winding hill village.

He is one of two Hezbollah men from the village to die during fierce fighting last month in the strategic Syrian town of Qusayr, which had been in rebel hands for a year before it was overrun on June 5 after a 17-day Hezbollah-led assault.

A male relative, who asked for anonymity because Hezbollah had instructed the family not to speak to reporters, admits that he and his other kin have been inspired by Abbas? sacrifice.

?I want to talk about Abbas. We are very proud of him,? he says. ?I would go and fight in Syria tomorrow if I could.?

Such comments echo across Shiite-populated areas of Lebanon today, even as dozens of dead Hezbollah men are brought back from the battlefields of Syria for lavish funerals in their towns and villages.

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The continued support is the result of Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah?s successful efforts to persuade Hezbollah?s core constituency to embrace the party's radical and potentially dangerous new path of intervention in the Syrian civil war.

?The care and time [Sheikh] Nasrallah invested in crafting and marketing this narrative is indicative of Hezbollah?s assessment that their base needs convincing about the party?s involvement in Syria,? says Randa Slim, a scholar with the Middle East Institute in Washington who writes regularly on Hezbollah affairs.

GROWING OPENNESS

Hezbollah?s decision to fully participate in Syria?s bloody two-year war on behalf of the regime of Bashar al-Assad is a dramatic development for an organization that has always been defined as a champion of anti-Israel resistance.

Yet today, Hezbollah finds itself fighting fellow Arab Muslims, albeit Sunnis, who make up the bulk of the Syrian armed opposition. Hezbollah and its patron, Iran, stand to be weakened if their ally, the Assad regime, falls and is replaced by a Sunni-dominated administration that moves closer to the West and Arab Gulf states.

Rumors of Hezbollah involvement in Syria began circulating soon after the uprising broke out in March 2011, but the early claims were generally unconvincing and lacked evidence. In October 2011, Sheikh Nasrallah said in a television interview that accusations that Hezbollah had deployed fighters into Syria were ?absolutely untrue.?

?There are no thousands or a thousand or even half a soldier [in Syria],? he said.

However, by early 2012, it was becoming public knowledge within Lebanese Shiite circles that some Hezbollah fighters were being sent into Syria. That summer there were a flurry of reports in the Lebanese media of funerals for slain Hezbollah fighters. Hezbollah released statements saying that they had died ?while performing their jihadi duty,? a possible allusion to combat-related deaths.

Unusually, there was some quietly muttered dissent in Shiite circles, including within Hezbollah?s support base, about the morality of dispatching fighters to help the Assad regime?s brutal repression of the opposition.

On Oct. 3, 2012, the rebel Free Syrian Army announced that it had killed Ali Nassif, a veteran Hezbollah commander, near Qusayr in Syria. Four days later, Nasrallah called continuing allegations that Hezbollah was fighting in Syria a ?lie.? However, he conceded that Nassif and some other Hezbollah members were voluntarily fighting to defend their homes against rebel attacks in several Shiite-populated villages just inside Syria.

By December 2012, videos allegedly portraying Hezbollah fighters in southern Damascus, home to a shrine revered by Shiites, had emerged.

Meanwhile, any sympathy toward the Syrian opposition was beginning to fade amid increasing evidence of atrocities committed by the armed opposition and the escalation of anti-Shiite rhetoric from groups like the Al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra. Meanwhile, Hezbollah leaders emphasized the threat posed to Lebanon?s stability by ?Takfiri? groups in Syria, a reference to extremist Sunnis who view as apostates anyone that does not share their austere interpretation of Islam.

In April, fighting flared near Qusayr as the Assad regime and Hezbollah fighters launched a campaign to drive rebels from nearby villages before staging an assault on the town. At the end of the month, Nasrallah came closer to admitting Hezbollah was in Syria, saying he was especially proud of the ?martyrs who fell in the past few weeks" and warned that the Assad regime had ?real friends? who would not allow Syria to fall into the hands of ?American or Israel or Takfiri groups.?

On May 19, Hezbollah fighters spearheaded an attack on the rebel-held town of Qusayr. Six days later, Nasrallah finally admitted what by now was common knowledge that Hezbollah was operating in Syria. He said that ?by taking this position, we believe we are defending Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria.?

FRACTURES

While Lebanon?s Shiites have generally accepted Hezbollah?s rationale for intervening in Syria, reactions have ranged from dismay to fury elsewhere in Lebanon and the region. Brief clashes have broken out in several areas of Lebanon between Shiite and Sunni gunmen. Michel Suleiman, the Lebanese president, has urged Hezbollah to withdraw its forces from Syria.

The Lebanese government, presently operating in a limited caretaker capacity, follows a policy of neutrality toward the conflict in Syria, but lacks the heft to force the powerful Hezbollah to retreat.

Still, not all Shiites back Hezbollah?s intervention. A minority of Shiites openly oppose Hezbollah?s dominance of the community. One of them, Hashem Salman, a 27-year-old company manager from Adloun in south Lebanon, was among a group of anti-Hezbollah Shiites who attempted to hold a demonstration outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut two weeks ago. The demonstrators were attacked by suspected Hezbollah men wielding batons. Salman was shot three times in the scuffles and bled to death on the road.

?Hashem died for freedom,? says his brother Hassan during a condolence session at the family home in Adloun. ?They [Hezbollah] don?t fear weapons in the hands of their opponents, they fear open minds and freedom.?

Hezbollah?s popularity within the Shiite community is unlikely to be seriously challenged in the foreseeable future. But loyalists may balk at a lengthy intervention in Syria, especially if the casualty toll remains high, anti-Shiite sentiment continues to flare across the region, and former supporters turn away from the party.

Three weeks ago, Sheikh Youssef Qaradawi, an influential Sunni cleric who once defended Hezbollah, called for jihad against the party which he dubbed the ?Party of Satan.? Hezbollah means the Party of God in Arabic.

There could be economic considerations too. Arab Gulf states have said they will expel Hezbollah members living in their countries.

Hezbollah has given no indication that it intends to pull out of Syria soon. Since Qusayr fell on June 5, Hezbollah fighters reportedly have been engaged in battles around Damascus and are being sent to Aleppo ahead of an anticipated offensive against rebel forces in the northern city.

?I do not think there is a consensus inside Hezbollah?s constituency around a protracted never-ending involvement in Syria,? says Slim, the Hezbollah scholar. ?The higher the death toll, especially as the party moves toward northern Syria, will raise concerns about the costs of this involvement.?

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Obama to unveil climate plan in Tuesday speech

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama is preparing to unveil his long-awaited national plan to combat climate change in a major speech, he announced on Saturday.

"There's no single step that can reverse the effects of climate change," Obama said in an online video released by the White House. "But when it comes to the world we leave our children, we owe it to them to do what we can."

People consulting with White House officials on Obama's plan, to be unveiled Tuesday at Georgetown University, say they expect him to put forth regulations on heat-trapping gases emitted by existing coal-fired power plans. They were not authorized to disclose details about the plan ahead of the announcement and requested anonymity.

Environmental groups have been pleading with Obama to take that step, but the administration has said it's focused first on controls on new power plants. The Environmental Protection Agency, using its authority under the Clean Air Act, has already proposed controls on new plants, but the rules have been delayed ? to the chagrin of states and environmental groups threatening to sue over the delays.

An administration official said last week that Obama was still weighing whether to include existing plants in the climate plan. The official wasn't authorized to comment by name and requested anonymity.

The White House wouldn't disclose any details Saturday about what steps Obama may call for. But his senior energy and climate adviser, Heather Zichal, said last week that controls on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants would be a major focus. She also said the plan would boost energy efficiency of appliances and buildings, plus expand renewable energy.

Putting a positive spin on a contentious partisan issue, Obama said the U.S. is uniquely poised to deal with the serious challenges posed by climate change. He said American scientists and engineers would have to design new fuels and energy sources, and workers will have to adapt to a clean energy economy.

"We'll need all of us, as citizens, to do our part to preserve God's creation for future generations," Obama said.

Environmental groups have for months been pushing Obama to make good on a threat he issued to lawmakers in February in his State of the Union address: "If Congress won't act soon to protect future generations, I will." Obama's move to take the matter into his own hands appears to reflect a growing consensus that opposition in Congress is too powerful for any meaningful, sweeping climate legislation to pass anytime soon.

"They shouldn't wait for Congress to act, because they'll be out of office by the time that Congress gets its act together," Rep. Henry Waxman, the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said in an interview.

Environmental groups applauded the announcement that Obama was finally releasing a plan for executive action, but made clear they want to see firm proposals ? including controls for existing power plants.

"Combating climate change means curbing carbon pollution ? for the first time ever ? from the biggest single source of such dangerous gases: our coal-fired power plants," said Frances Beinecke, president of the National Resources Defense Council. "We stand ready to help President Obama in every way we can."

Another key issue hanging over the announcement ? but unlikely to be mentioned on Tuesday ? is Keystone XL, a pipeline that would carry oil extracted from tar sands in western Canada to refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast. A concerted campaign by environmental activists to persuade Obama to nix the pipeline appears to be an uphill battle. The White House insists the State Department is making the decision independently.

Obama's speech on Tuesday will come the day before he leaves for a weeklong trip to three African nations.

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Chicago's top line too much for Boston to handle

Chicago Blackhawks right wing Patrick Kane (88) reacts after scoring against the Boston Bruins in the first period during Game 5 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Finals, Saturday, June 22, 2013, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Chicago Blackhawks right wing Patrick Kane (88) reacts after scoring against the Boston Bruins in the first period during Game 5 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Finals, Saturday, June 22, 2013, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Chicago Blackhawks right wing Patrick Kane (88) scores against Boston Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask (40) in the second period during Game 5 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Finals, Saturday, June 22, 2013, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Chicago Blackhawks center Jonathan Toews (19) wins the face off at the start of Game 5 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Finals against the Boston Bruins, Saturday, June 22, 2013, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

CHICAGO (AP) ? Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews are not exactly imposing, their playoff beards about the only thing keeping them from being mistaken for somebody's little brothers.

Try telling that to the Boston Bruins and their bruising tandem of Zdeno Chara and Dennis Seidenberg.

Chicago's top line made the Bruins pay again Saturday night, with Kane scoring two more goals in a 3-1 victory that puts the Blackhawks one victory away from its second Stanley Cup title in four years. Since Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville tinkered with his top line before Game 4 to reunite his two best players, Kane and Toews have combined for four goals and seven points.

And, most important, two wins.

"I think (Kane) gets excited playing with (Bryan) Bickell and Toews," Quenneville said. "They get excited about that togetherness, and they seem to read off each other. Everybody brings a little bit something different to the party, and they scored two huge goals for us tonight."

Whether the star-studded line stays intact for Monday night's potential clincher in Boston isn't certain, however. Toews didn't play at all in the third period, though he stayed on the bench and was badgering Quenneville to give him a shift.

"We're hopeful he'll be ready next game," Quenneville said. "He wanted to play. We'll see."

Kane and Toews are Chicago's version of peanut butter and jelly, a perfect combination that just isn't the same by itself. Drafted a year apart ? Toews was the third pick overall in 2006, Kane was first in 2007 ? they arrived together for the 2007-08 season and have been the cornerstones of Chicago's rejuvenation. They've already won one Stanley Cup, and began this year helping the Blackhawks set an NHL record for season-opening points.

"We're different style players, but I think we complement each other very well," Kane said of Toews. "We've played together for six years now. I know we didn't play together very much this year, but throughout times in the past you can look back at those times that we've had success."

But with the Blackhawks facing Boston, Quenneville decided to split up his young stars.

At 6-foot-9 and 255 pounds, Chara looks like a mountain on the ice ? and he's about as impassable. Seidenberg is equally formidable, and Quenneville didn't want them ganging up on his phenoms at the same time and neutralizing them.

But the experiment failed. Pretty miserably.

With no goals from either Kane or Toews in the first three games, the Blackhawks found themselves trailing the Bruins 2-1. Needing a spark, Quenneville put Kane and Toews back together again for Game 4.

"I think we bring three different styles of play," said Bickell, who has three points in the last two games.

Such a simple switch, yet it's turned the series around.

"Playing with Johnny and Bicks, they create a lot of space, and I've been taking advantage of the space they do make," Kane said. "I think everyone wants to be that guy in big-time games, and I've been lucky enough in a couple to step up."

Toews scored his first goal in almost a month ? May 25, to be exact ? in Game 4, while Kane got his first goal of the series. It was more of the same Saturday, with Kane's quick reflexes putting Boston on the ropes.

With 2:33 left in the first period, Johnny Oduya's slapshot hit Seidenberg's stick and shattered the blade. The puck trickled behind Boston goalie Tuukka Rask and Kane scooped it up and tucked it into the net to give Chicago a 1-0 lead.

He doubled the score just over five minutes into the second period, getting help from both Toews and Bickell.

Bickell picked up a pass from Toews and took a shot from the left side, along the goal line. He got his own rebound and circled around the net, looking like a shark searching for prey. He finally spotted an opening, but the puck caromed off the side of the net.

Kane pounced on the rebound, and Rask never had a chance.

"It's an exciting time," Kane said, "especially when you're scoring in games like this."

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Ferragamo promises a young, carefree summer

MILAN (AP) ? The Ferragamo summer promises to be young and carefree, with Bermuda shorts, leather sandals and a large backpack the only musts for the warm weather traveler.

To set the mood for the colorful 2014 menswear collection, Massimiliano Giornetti, the label's creative director, created a suitably atmospheric backdrop ? a long, white runway was set off by a big blue sky projected on a mega screen.

At the collection's presentation Sunday, the second day of Milan's Fashion Week, Giornetti at times took the summer suit trend of Bermuda shorts and a matching jacket a step further by cutting the sleeves off the jacket, or using unconventional colors such as pea green and lobster red.

The designer also favored large geometric patterns, a recurring theme in this round of preview collections, and light and billowy overcoats, which are also popular for next summer.

Salvatore Ferragamo, founder of the label, began his rise to fashion fame as a shoemaker in the 1920s. After a stint in Hollywood he set up shop in Florence, where the company still has its headquarters. As the family company expanded it added luxury leather goods and clothing.

Next summer's footwear features a sturdy sports sandal, worn with bare feet or a funky crumpled leather sock.

The new Ferragamo backpack comes in luxurious leather, and is reminiscent of an old-fashioned mountaineering bag.

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New record as haze chokes Singapore

21 June 2013 Last updated at 10:09 ET

Ashleigh Nghiem in Singapore: "This is the fourth day of choking smoke"

Pollution levels reached a new record high for a third day in a row in Singapore, as smoky haze from fires in Indonesia shrouded the city state.

The Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) hit 401 at 12:00 on Friday (04:00 GMT) - the highest in Singapore's history.

The index also reached 400 in one part of Indonesia, which is readying helicopters and cloud-seeding equipment in an effort to tackle the fires.

Schools in parts of Malaysia and Indonesia have closed temporarily.

Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsieng Loong warned on Thursday that the haze could remain in place for weeks.

"We can't tell how this problem is going to develop because it depends on the burning, it depends on the weather, it depends on the wind," he said.

"It can easily last for several weeks and quite possibly it could last longer until the dry season ends in Sumatra which may be September or October."

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Karishma Vaswani BBC News, Jakarta

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Indonesia is struggling to contain the raging forest fires that are causing the thick smog which is enveloping Singapore, parts of Malaysia and some Indonesian cities.

On Friday, the government despatched helicopters to the worst affected areas, in a bid to create artificial rain. The plan is to seed the clouds once the temperature is a bit cooler to induce rain over the burning forestland.

It is a big challenge. Fire-fighters on the ground have been working around the clock to put out the blazes, but they have spread to peatlands and are proving to be very difficult to extinguish. Officials have complained about a lack of resources and say they desperately need some rain to help.

Indonesia's weather agency says rainfall is not likely until 29 June. Singapore and Malaysia have both urged Indonesia to do more to solve this crisis. Singapore has offered aircraft to help with the cloud-seeding operation, but there needs to be clouds in the sky for it to work. This time of year is typically the hottest and driest on the island of Sumatra.

A PSI reading above 300 is defined as "hazardous", while Singapore government guidelines say a PSI reading of above 400 over 24 hours "may be life-threatening to ill and elderly persons".

"Healthy people [may also] experience adverse symptoms that affect normal activity," the government says.

The PSI dropped down to 143 at 17:00 (09:00 GMT), although this is still classed as "unhealthy".

Before this week's episode, the previous air pollution record was from September 1997 during the 1997-1998 South East Asian Haze, when the PSI peaked at 226.

Singapore resident Nicole Wu told the BBC that she had stayed indoors for the past two days.

"It's terrible. In my flat the windows are all closed with the air conditioning on," she said. "My mother has to wear a mask to go shopping."

"I can't even see what's happening outside my house due to the smog. You can't see birds [or] moving objects," she added.

Philip Koh, a doctor, told AFP news agency that the number of medical consultations he had had in the past week had increased by 20%.

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"My patients are telling me they are worried about how long this is going to last and how much higher this is going to go," he said.

In Indonesia's Riau province, where the fires are concentrated, the PSI went up to 400 on Friday, the head of the local health office told the BBC.

Schools are to remain closed until air quality improves.

The chief of the health department Zainal Arifin said there was an "increasing number of asthma, lung, eye and skin problems due to higher CO2 levels".

"I call for residents to stay at home and reduce outdoor activities," he said.

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The face masks which are in high demand in Singapore can protect against the worst of the smog... [but] are unlikely to provide total protection?

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Singapore's National Environment Agency has started providing hourly PSI updates on its website, in addition to the three-hourly updates it previously provided.

Around 300 schools in southern Malaysia have now been closed as a result of the smog. Schools in Singapore are currently closed for the holidays.

There are also reports of flight delays in both Singapore's Changi airport and Riau province in Indonesia.

The fires are caused by illegal slash-and-burn land clearance in Sumatra, to the west of Singapore.

The smog has strained diplomatic relations between Singapore and Indonesia - two countries that usually share good relations, the BBC's Karishma Vaswani in Jakarta reports.

Mr Lee said Singapore had provided satellite date to Indonesia to help it identify companies involved and said that if any Singapore firms were involved, that would be addressed.

Indonesia's National Disaster Management Agency said it would deploy two helicopters to conduct "water-bombing" operations, as well as planes with cloud seeding equipment.

More than 100 Indonesian fire-fighters are attempting to put out the fires in Sumatra.

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Slash-and-burn clearances

• Slash-and-burn farming is a technique that involves cutting down vegetation and burning to clear land for cultivation
• It is cheaper than using excavators and bulldozers
• The illegal burning of forests to clear land for palm oil plantations has long been a problem in Indonesia - particularly during the dry season in the summer
• Indonesia's Environment Minister Balthazar Kambuaya has said the government is investigating several palm oil companies in this respect
• Some producers have already denied their companies use slash and burn land clearance

However, an official in Riau province said they were "overwhelmed and in a state of emergency".

"We have been fighting fires 24 hours a day for two weeks," Ahmad Saerozi, the head of the natural resources conservation agency in Riau, told AFP news agency.

He added that the fires were in peat around three or four metres below the ground, making it particularly hard to fight them.

"It is still burning under the surface so we have to stick a hose into the peat to douse the fire," he said.

"We take one to two hours to clear a hectare, and by then another fire has started elsewhere."

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said "all the country's resources" would be mobilised to extinguish the fires.

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Ocean Feast Lures Whales to California Coast

A bevy of hungry blue and humpback whales, dolphins and orcas has appeared offshore of Central California this week. The crowds gorged on krill and squid, food for whales and dolphins, respectively, while the orcas hunted for larger prey. The pods of whales were drawn in by an upwelling of cold, nutrient-rich ocean bottom water, which spawned a boom in small marine life such as krill, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reported. The krill was so thick in parts of Monterey Bay yesterday (June 18) the water appeared red, according to the Monterey Bay Whale Watch Center.

Blue whales are the biggest animals on Earth. About 2,800 blue whales spend June through October feeding on krill offshore of California near the Channel Islands, Monterey Bay and the Farallon Islands.

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Is Curtis Axel better than 'Perfect'?

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How to install Android apps from the Google Play website

Installing Android apps to your phone or tablet from any computer with a web browser

Google is one of the biggest web service companies around. Their cloud-based apps and services can do some pretty wild and wonderful things, and we're about to look at one of them -- installing apps to your Android device remotely through the Google Play website.

All the complicated issues, like making sure apps are compatible and available for you, or keeping track of which device(s) you're currently using are done by Google behind-the-scenes, leaving us with just a few clicks needed to make some serious magic happen. All you need is an Android device registered with Google Play, and a computer with a modern web browser.

There's a complete video walkthrough of the process after the break, but we'll spend a few minutes and talk about it as well. This is the way I install almost all my apps, because I only have to find them once and can install them to any device I may have in service. It goes a little something like this.

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World looks to Bernanke to clarify stimulus plans

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Is the era of ultra-low interest rates nearing an end?

When he takes questions this week after a Federal Reserve meeting, Chairman Ben Bernanke will confront investors' fears that rates are headed higher.

Financial markets have been gyrating in the 3? weeks since Bernanke told Congress the Fed might scale back its effort to keep long-term rates at record lows within "the next few meetings"? earlier than many had assumed.

Bernanke cautioned that the Fed would slow its support only if it felt confident the job market would show sustained improvement. And earlier in the day, he said the Fed must take care not to prematurely reduce its stimulus for the still-subpar economy.

Yet investors were left puzzled and spooked by a mixed message. Fear spread that the Fed would soon slow its $85 billion-a-month in bond purchases. Those purchases have been intended to hold down long-term borrowing rates to spur spending. Low rates are credited with helping fuel a housing rebound, sustain economic growth, drive stock prices to record highs and restore the wealth America had lost to the Great Recession.

Many fear that a pullback in the Fed's bond purchases could boost long-term rates, trigger a stock selloff and perhaps weaken the economy.

On Wednesday, when the Fed ends a two-day policy meeting with a Bernanke news conference, the financial world will be looking to the chairman to settle the confusion. What, Bernanke will likely be asked, would show sustained improvement in the job market? And when will the Fed most likely slow the pace of its bond purchases?

Some analysts think Bernanke will signal to investors that the Fed has no immediate plans to curtail its stimulus.

"The Fed has worked very hard to get stock prices and home prices rising to help the economy, and I don't think they want to back away from that in any way," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics. "I think Bernanke will deliver a strong message that the Fed is not going to taper until the job market is improving in a consistent way."

Last month, the U.S. economy added a solid 175,000 jobs. But the unemployment rate was 7.6 percent. Economists tend to regard the job market as healthy when unemployment is between 5 percent and 6 percent.

Since Bernanke's vague public comments May 22, the Dow Jones industrial average has fluctuated sharply and shed about 3 percent of its value. But the bigger shock has been in the bond market. The rate on the benchmark 10-year Treasury has jumped from a low of 1.63 percent in early May to 2.13 percent.

By historical measures, the rate on the 10-year Treasury is still extraordinarily low. It would have to rise dramatically, for example, to return to where it was during the 2000s, when it ranged mainly between 4 percent and 6 percent.

Still, higher rates ripple through the economy by making mortgages and other loans costlier. The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage, which tends to track the 10-year Treasury yield, reached 3.98 percent last week, according to Freddie Mac. That's its highest level since April 2012.

Just as cheap mortgages have helped feed a housing recovery, higher rates might slow it. Refinancings have declined since Bernanke's comments led to higher mortgage rates: Refinancings are 36 percent below their recent peak at the start of May, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Compounding the confusion stirred by Bernanke's remarks have been comments from other members of the Fed's policy committee. Minutes of the previous meeting suggest a sharp division: Some, like Bernanke, still stress the need to fight high unemployment with low rates. Others warn that rates kept too low for too long raise the risk of high inflation and financial instability later.

The Fed's investment purchases have swollen its portfolio to $3.4 trillion ? a four-fold increase since before the 2008 financial crisis. Eventually, the Fed will need to gradually sell its portfolio. Doing so would likely lead to higher rates. Yet some think it would also defuse some risks to the financial system.

Alan Greenspan, who preceded Bernanke as Fed chairman for nearly two decades, said in a recent interview on CNBC, "The sooner we come to grips with this excessive level of assets on the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve ? that everybody agrees is excessive ? the better."

Economists say Bernanke will seek to clarify the Fed's message Wednesday. Yet they're unsure what he'll say.

Some think he could spell out the Fed's likely timetable for curtailing its bond purchases. The earliest the Fed is expected to announce a pullback is at its September meeting ? and only then if unemployment has declined and the economy is growing faster than its current sluggish annual pace of around 2 percent.

Other analysts think the economy will not have recovered enough by September. They believe the earliest the Fed will reduce its stimulus is at its final meeting of the year in December. Until then, they think Bernanke will seek to reassure investors that the Fed will make sure the economy has strengthened before it acts.

Some in this camp say the economy will continue to be held back by a Social Security tax increase that kicked in in January and by federal spending cuts that began taking effect March 1.

"There is nothing in the underlying economy that would suggest the Fed needs to change policy any time soon," said Brian Bethune, an economics professor at Gordon College in Massachusetts. "There is considerably slower growth on the radar screen and absolutely no inflation to worry about."

Indeed, the Fed's preferred gauge of inflation tied to consumer spending rose just 0.7 percent in the 12 months that ended in April? far below the Fed's 2 percent target.

In addition to a statement announcing its policy stance and Bernanke's news conference, the Fed on Wednesday will update its economic forecasts, which it does four times a year. The forecasts will be scrutinized for any hints about the timing of future Fed action.

In its most recent forecasts in March, Fed officials predicted that the economy would grow as little as 2.3 percent this year ? not enough to quickly drive down unemployment ? or as high as 2.8 percent. It forecast that the unemployment rate would dip to between 7.3 percent and 7.5 percent by year's end.

If the Fed dims its outlook for growth and employment, investors would likely read that to mean the central bank will delay any scaling back of its stimulus. But if the Fed upgrades its forecasts, that could suggest that it's moving closer to reducing its bond purchases.

Some analysts think that in his news conference, Bernanke will want to signal to investors that the Fed is moving toward at least the start of a reduced pace of bond purchases in the second half of the year. Sung Won Sohn, an economics professor at the Martin Smith School of Business at California State University, suggested one possible approach: The Fed could reduce its $85 billion a month in purchases to about $60 billion in September, then to about $35 billion early next year, then stop the purchases altogether by spring.

Even when the Fed stops buying bonds, it's expected to maintain its current holdings, which would continue to exert downward pressure on long-term rates.

Whatever guidance Bernanke offers Wednesday could help steady markets for a key reason: It will reduce uncertainty.

Margie Patel, a portfolio manager at Wells Fargo Capital Management, thinks investors will remain calm even after the Fed slows its stimulus. She noted that the economy has been improving, however gradually.

"There's no sector you can look at that's extremely dependent on the low rates for growth, even housing," she said. "If rates went up modestly, housing is still more affordable than it has been in years."

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AP Business Writers Christina Rexrode and Matthew Craft in New York contributed to this report.

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What's Wrong With the iOS 7 Icons?

?It looks childish.? That was the first reaction I heard to iOS 7. I?m not going to lie, when I saw it for the first time myself, I freaked out a little too. Like any good simplicity-loving designer, I was eagerly waiting for Jonathan Ive to reveal a fresh, clean take on iOS.

But the icons that were unveiled feel rushed. Lots of them look like the very first sketch was thrown right into the keynote.

My developer friends had similar reactions, but they couldn?t put their finger on why they felt that way. That?s because there are tons of tiny details that go into designing app icons that the average person doesn?t ever think about. You may not recognize the details, but you will feel their effects.

Even designing just one simple, clean, good-looking icon is not an easy task. Multiply that by 25 and there was a ton of work to do in the eight months since Forstall was booted, which led to certain things being overlooked?

[This post originally appeared on the blog of its author, Ian Storm Taylor.]

Poor choice of color

To be honest, Apple?s software has had this problem for a long time. For hardware design it?s not a problem because their signature gray aluminum will take on different hues and shadows depending on its environment. But in software, a dull gray will always be a dull gray.

Calculator is a great example where poor color choice can ruin an icon. Actually if we?re being completely honest, its colors look like they were pulled straight out of Windows Metro. (And that?s not a good thing!)

On Dribbble, Jackie Anh came up with a much more aesthetically appealing icon. Just by slightly tweaking the orange, adding a subtle gradient, and getting rid of the dull grays, the icon feels noticeably better. And it?s even more harmonious with the overall tone of iOS 7.

On the opposite end of the spectrum you have apps like Phone, FaceTime andMessages that use extremely saturated and low-contrast colors. Colors that my high school art teacher would have referred to as ?straight from the tube," meaning taken directly from the tube of paint without thought.

Just like you don?t want to use pure black, you also never want to use ?straight from the tube? colors. They come off as tacky and cheap.

Drawing from the fashion world, there was a period of time where you?d find hipsters around town wearing neon clothing, but they?ve long since passed neon on to the bros. Never take fashion advice from the bros.

Weak use of metaphor

The Contacts icon is also screaming for some creative help. For one, the colors are very uninspired. There?s that dull gray again.

But the bigger problem with this icon is that it?s still sporting the address book metaphor! This new iteration of iOS was supposed to save us from the unnecessary skeuomorphism that Jobs and Forstall loved. And from what I?ve seen, the Contacts app has largely done that? Everywhere except the home screen!

Has anyone even seen an address book in the past ten years?

I tried to think up some interesting ideas for Contacts, but I couldn?t come up with any. And I realized, I don?t even use the Contacts app. I threw it into my ?Junk? folder years ago.

When I need to call someone I go to Phone. When I want to see a friend I go to Facebook. If I really wanted to maintain a list of friends I call a lot on my home screen, I?d use an app like Brewster. Apple could remove the Contacts app and I?d never notice. (I?ll come back to this later?)

On the topic of skeuomorphism, is a pad of perforated paper really the best we can do for Notes? We?ve traded the old, nicely rendered icon for the new one which looks like a sketch from OmniGraffle with no new take on the metaphor.

I don?t necessarily think the pad can?t be done well. Squarespace Note is my favorite example of a clean notes icon: slightly skeuomorphic, but still incredibly simple at the same time.

Videos still maintains its unhelpful skeuomorphism too. I?ve never associated those black and white stripes with videos. I realized way a couple minutes later, because those stripes for for movies, not videos.

If they wanted to be contemporary, they?d include the ?play? icon, like Graph Concepts did on Dribbble. It?s an icon everyone is familiar with from YouTube, Vimeo, Vevo, or any other video that?s been watched on the internet in the past ten years.

That?s the icon that will scream ?videos!? the fastest.

Inconsistent language

The new Camera icon is probably my least favorite of all the new icons. It is just plain inconsistent with the rest of the design language across iOS 7. In an aesthetic that is all about reducing to until only the absolutely necessary remains, why does the icon need extra hairlines, a yellow flash and a extra little button?

All of it is excessive. And even worse, the camera icon on the lock screen isn?t even the same one. Why?

I actually loved the original Camera icon. It was beautifully geometric and abstract. It wasn?t skeuomorphic at all, it was a literal representation of the hardware on the other side of the phone. (Especially when you remember that the first generation iPhone had an aluminum case.) It was like you were invoking the camera right on the other side of the phone by magic.

All of that magic has been replaced by an ugly camera icon. This new icon is like showing a floppy disk for ?Save?. Instead of seeing a representation of the actual hardware that would be doing your bidding, now we?re left with a old-timey camera.

Reminders is another huge let down. To be honest, the app has always been a let down. Unless you use Siri it?s impossibly hard to create a new reminder, which is 90 percent of the app?s use case.

It feels like Reminders was a sacrifice that Apple knew it wasn?t going to be able to redesign this time around. It is, as far as I can tell, the only interface in iOS 7 that still features an uninspired pseudo-paper texture. Reminders are quick, one-off items? they definitely shouldn?t be letter-pressed into my phone.

The icon feels uninspired as well; it?s a casualty of the grid system. In this case it looks like there wasn?t really a clear direction for it?s design, so a few random elements were aligned on the grid and that was that. It doesn?t live up to the quality we expect from Apple.

Speaking of inconsistent, I honestly have no idea what?s going on with the Game Center icon. Apple ditched the glossy aesthetic everywhere but in those glass spheres. If the spheres perfectly expressed the ?game? metaphor I might be able to forgive them, but they aren?t really special in any way.

Apps that shouldn?t exist

Like Contacts, some of the other default apps should be cut. There, I said it. It sounds like a entirely separate problem, but I actually think it shows up in the icon design because they get neglected more than others.

Stocks is one of those apps. As imagined, it doesn?t suit the needs of anyone who actually need to check their stocks, but it?s never been cut after all these years. To be fair the Stocks icon has never really looked good. It just used to hide behind all that gradient and gloss, so no one noticed.

But now that Apple?s gone ?flat? it?s so much harder to hide. The lines on the new dark icon feel very brittle, just like the lines on Reminders and Notes, and instead of the green or red that make an appearance in the app itself, the accent color is a weird light blue.

iTunes is another app that, in a perfect experience, wouldn?t exist. You know how you can tell? If you remove the circle from its icon, what do you get? The Music icon with a different color. Why? Because everything iTunes does for music should actually be in Music! And everything video-related should be in Videos?

And keeping repeating until the iTunes app has no content left.

A few successes

Of course there are also a few icons that I think are well done. Icons that nailed the balance between adhering to the new aesthetic and expressing the soul of the app they represent. I don?t hate everything!

One of the best icons in the group is Music. You might be thinking, ?What the heck Ian that?s another neon color!?, and you?d be right.

But Music nailed its color. It wasn?t straight out of the tube, it was carefully chosen. That pink orange successfully evokes MTV or VH1 or VEVO or Taylor Swift. It really feels like ?music."

Calendar is another great one. The old icon was probably the ugliest of all the iOS 6 icons. And it was due in large part to poor color choice: using pure white to make highlights and pure black to make shadow.

The new Calendar icon on the other hand is simple, but does its job perfectly: showing us the current date.

Speaking of which, the Clock icon now keeps the current time as well, which is a nice addition! The icon itself features only minor tweaks from iOS 6, but each change was a careful improvement: the unnecessary black loop was removed, the extra gloss was removed, and the hands were slimmed, and the numerals are now Helvetica to match the rest of the interface. Perfect.

There are also a few icons that you also don?t see on the home screen that are very nicely designed. I could only find these three in Apple.com?s promotional content. They?re all beautifully simple, made up entirely of geometric shapes and clean lines. If Apple applies this kind of quality to the rest of their icons in the time between now and when iOS 7 ships we?ll be in for a real treat.

And a few missed opportunities

I really like the idea of icons that adapt to their environment to be helpful to the user. Clock and Calendar are obvious examples, but the idea could be taken a lot further.

Stocks is another icon that could actually be put to work for the user. Why not show me the fluctuation of my entire portfolio in the trend line of the icon? Better yet, if my portfolio is up, turn the icon green. Down? Red. That way I can quickly gauge my performance without needing to open the app all the time.

Color with a purpose!

No portfolio setup? Show me the S&P 500!

Newsstand is another missed opportunity. Even though it was universally hated for not being folder-able on iOS 6, it was still unique in that it changed based on content curated by the user. That?s interesting!

The new icon has some nice, old-school looking magazine cover designs, but it doesn?t convey the future of news like it should.

On a similar note, other icons could become personalized, like Music, Videos or Photos showing the last album cover, video, or photo you engaged with. Surely each of those have good-looking-enough artwork to pull it off. Make my home screen feel a bit more personal. (Angry internet people calm down, I?m aware that Windows Phone does similar things, but that doesn?t mean Apple shouldn?t too.)

Or another random idea: what if Camera was still a lens like it used to be, and in the lens was the reflection of the last photo you snapped! Useful? Absolutely not! But playful at least.

I wish there were more misfits, rebels and troublemakers ideas in the icon design for iOS.

I?m not too worried about the future though

I freaked out in the beginning because I thought the crummy icons were representative of Apple screwing up the entire new design direction for iOS. But now that I?ve seen the rest of iOS, I?m not that worried.

Yeah the icons are below standard, but the rest of iOS 7 looks damn well done?lots of really strong interaction design. If I really had to pick between icon design and interaction design, I?d obviously choose the interactions.

One thing I realized is that an icon?s job is to convey the soul of the app itself, and lots of the apps are still undergoing major redesigns. Redesigns that will probably not be perfected until iOS 8 at least. So we shouldn?t expect their icons to be perfect yet either.

What?ll be really interesting is to see how companies adapt their icons and interfaces to iOS?s new feel. Honestly, Rdio?s and Brewster?s apps already feel like iOS 7; they?re minimal, clean and airy.

As far as icons do, every other company has a lot more skin in the game than Apple does too. Their success is directly proportional with the amount of times their icons are pressed, so they spend a lot more time making them perfect. Imagine what Blue could do if they were allowed to make their icon reactive.

[This post originally appeared on the blog of its author, Ian Storm Taylor.]

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