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How do you shut down programs running in the background?

Looks like double clicking on the home button does not bring these up to shut them down.:rolleyes:

It does for me. It works exactly like it did in iOS 7. Double clicking the home button brings up the recently used/running apps. Of course now iOS 8 also has recent contacts at the top of the screen.
 
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