Report: Apple Will Begin Fabricating Their Own Mobile Device Chips

A report today from SemiAccurate,?the site whose name describes their track record when it comes to Apple rumors, says Apple has just bought into a chip fabricating plant.

SemiAccurate, via 9to5Mac:

Apple has just done something that?SemiAccurate has been expecting?for months and entered the fab industry. No we are not joking, Apple just bought into a fab, and not in a trivial way either.

It?s unclear as to if the site mentions a specific company that Apple has bought into, as the full report resides behind a paywall. Tags for the report do list ?UMC,? which could mean the company could be?Taiwan-based chipmaker United Microelectronics Corporation.

SemiAccurate?s track record for past Apple related predictions is hit-and-miss, as the site missed on a 2011 report that Apple would be moving away from Intel chips for its laptop lineup, although they did hit with their 2012 prediction Apple would go back to Nvidia graphics for its Mac lineup.

Samsung currently remains the only provider of Apple?s A-Series chips for its iOS devices, but Apple has recently been reported to have struck a deal with TSMC to fabricate A-series chips beginning in 2014.

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His first Apple product was an iPod Classic 5 years ago, and he has since added a MacBook Pro, iPad, iPhone, and 2 Apple TVs to his collection.

He lives somewhere in the deep Southern part of America. Yes, he has to pump in both sunshine, and the Internet.

Don't forget to check out Chris' two latest endeavors, as the "Apple Expert" at Answers.com, and his own personal tech blog at chrishauk.com

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Watch: Mexico's Popocatepetl Volcano Spews Out Ash, Gas and Vapor

Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano still hasn't calmed down. The volcano keeps spewing ash, gas and vapor into its surroundings, and local authorities have no choice except remain on alert.

The footage above was posted online this July 11.

It was recorded by a Mexican navy pilot who flew his aircraft so close to the volcano that he managed to catch both Popocatepetl's crater and the seemingly endless stream of ash on camera.

People living close to the volcano say that, now that Popocatepetl is unusually active, ash has made it all the way to homes and office buildings.

Apparently, it was only last weekend when they woke up to find that their cars had been covered in volcanic dust.

The volcano's name translates as ?smoking mountain,? specialists say. Judging by the show that Popocatepetl has been putting on these past few weeks, there is no denying that the name suits it just right.

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Facebook?s Instagram adds web embed

July 13, 2013, 6:58am ? Now, blogs and other websites can embed Instagram content directly using a code. The popular photo and video sharing app unveiled the new feature this week.

Similar to embedding videos from YouTube, Instagram?s embed feature requires users to copy a code, though Instagram doesn?t allow embeds of videos and photos coming from users with ?private accounts.?

Embedded Instagram content features the account?s name, where the video or photo originated, and the logo of Instagram. Surprisingly, high quality photos posted on the app are supported by the new feature.

Instagram is available on Apple?s App Store (iOS iTunes Store) and Google Play Store for Android devices only.

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Luxury home sales are down in Canada - Business Blog ... - Maclean's

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Bad news if you?re in the market to sell off some high-end real estate. It?s officially now a buyer?s market for luxury homes in Canada, according the latest update released today on sales of million-dollar homes from Southeby?s International Realty.

Overall sales of luxury detached homes were flat or down significantly in most of the major markets in the first half of 2013 compared to the same time last year. Sales of high-end homes were down about nine per cent in Vancouver and about six per cent in Toronto. They were flat in Montreal. Only Calgary saw a significant uptick (15 per cent) in sales of homes over $1 million:

The number of days high-end homes sat on the market before finally selling also crept up in most cities. It was most dramatic in Vancouver, where the listing time before a sale rose 57 per cent. It jumped 37 per cent in Montreal, where it now takes on average more than four months to sell a million-dollar home and close to six months to sell a high-end condo.

Listing times crept up slightly in Toronto and fell in Calgary. (Note: The Southeby?s report doesn?t contain this data for Toronto. The calculations here are taken from the Toronto Real Estate Board?s monthly reports and compare year-to-date sales in June 2013 to June 2012. We calculated an average based on sales of detached homes in neighbourhoods of the city where the average selling price was over $1 million):

Prices are also softening for high-end homes, with fewer homes selling for over asking price. That?s a reflection of fewer buyers in the market for seven-figure homes. Even in Calgary, where the luxury home market seems to be heating up, buyers are still able to drive a hard bargain:

The full report is here in PDF.

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Harry Potters series favorite at CIA black site

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Confined to the basement of a CIA secret prison in Romania about a decade ago, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the admitted mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, asked his jailers whether he could embark on an unusual project: Would the spy agency allow Mohammed, who had earned his bachelor's in mechanical engineering, to design a vacuum cleaner?

The agency officer in charge of the prison called CIA headquarters and a manager approved the request, a former senior CIA official told The Associated Press.

Mohammed had endured the most brutal of the CIA's harsh interrogation methods and had confessed to a career of atrocities. But the agency had no long-term plan for him. Someday, he might prove useful again. Perhaps, he'd even stand trial one day.

And for that, he'd need to be san'e.

"We didn't want them to go nuts," the former senior CIA official said, one of several who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about the now-shuttered CIA prisons or Mohammed's interest in vacuums.

So, using schematics from the Internet as his guide, Mohammed began re-engineering one of the most mundane of household appliances.

That the CIA may be in possession of the world's most highly classified vacuum cleaner blueprints is but one peculiar, lasting byproduct of the controversial U.S. detention and interrogation program.

By the CIA's own account, the program's methods were "designed to psychologically 'dislocate'" people. But once interrogations stopped, the agency had to try to undo the psychological damage inflicted on the detainees.

The CIA apparently succeeded in keeping Mohammed sane. He appears to be in good health, according to military records.

Others haven't fared as well. Accused al-Qaida terrorists Ramzi Binalshibh and Abd al-Nashiri, who were also locked up in Poland and Romania with Mohammed, have had mental issues. Al-Nashiri suffers from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Binalshibh is being treated for schizophrenia with a slew of anti-psychotic medications.

"Any type of prolonged isolation in custody ? much less the settings described in the press ? have been known to have a severe impact on the mental condition of the detainee," said Thomas Durkin, Binalshibh's former civilian lawyer. Durkin declined to discuss Binalshibh's case.

Mohammed was subjected to harsh interrogations in Poland. Agency officers and contractors forced him to stay awake for 180 hours, according to a CIA inspector general's report. He also underwent 183 instances of waterboarding, or simulated drowning.

After the CIA prison in Poland was closed in September 2003, Mohammed was moved to Bucharest, to a black site code-named "Britelite." Soon the CIA was trying to find ways to entertain Mohammed as his intelligence value diminished.

The prison had a debriefing room, where Mohammed, who saw himself as something of a professor, held "office hours," as he told CIA officers. While chained to the floor, Mohammed would lecture the CIA officers on his path to jihad, his childhood and family. Tea and cookies were served.

Along with the other five detainees at the prison in Bucharest, Mohammed was given assignments about his knowledge of al-Qaida, or "homework," as CIA officers called it. He was given Snickers candy bars as rewards for his studiousness.

In Romania, the prison provided books for detainees to read. Mohammed, former officials said, enjoyed the Harry Potter series. For the CIA officers at the prison, not so much. For security reasons, after a prisoner finished a book, they tediously checked every page to ensure detainees weren't passing messages. They once caught Mohammed trying to hide a message in a book warning his prison mates not to talk about Osama bin Laden's courier.

Mohammed graduated from North Carolina A&T State University with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1986. It's not clear whether Mohammed was interested in designing a better vacuum or had ulterior motives. He might have intended to use the plans to conceal secret information or trick his jailers.

In Graham Greene's spy thriller "Our Man in Havana," a vacuum salesman in Cuba agrees to work for MI6, the British spy service. He dupes the British into believing his vacuum designs are military installations. The AP was unable to determine whether Mohammed ever read the famous novel.

It remains a mystery how far Mohammed got with his designs or whether the plans still exist. The secret CIA prison in Romania was shuttered in early 2006 and Mohammed was transferred later that year to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base prison, where he remains. It's unlikely he was able to take his appliance plans to Cuba.

Mohammed's military lawyer, Army Capt. Jason Wright, said he was prohibited from discussing his client's interest in vacuums.

"It sounds ridiculous, but answering this question, or confirming or denying the very existence of a vacuum cleaner design, a Swiffer design, or even a design for a better hand towel would apparently expose the U.S. government and its citizens to exceptionally grave danger," Wright said.

But Wright added that he often discussed "modern technological innovations" and the "scientific wonders" of the Quran with Mohammed. He called Mohammed "exceptionally intelligent."

"If he had access to educational programs in Guantanamo Bay, such as distance learning programs, I am confident that in addition to furthering his Islamic studies, he could obtain a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, and very likely patent inventions," Wright said.

The CIA won't discuss the Mohammed's vacuum plans, either. The AP asked the CIA for copies of the vacuum designs or any government records about them under the Freedom of Information Act.

The CIA responded in a letter to the AP that the records, "should they exist," would be considered operational files of the CIA ? among its most highly classified category of government files ? and therefore exempt from ever being released to the public.

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Greg Little offers Twitter commentary on DUI arrests | ProFootballTalk

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On Wednesday, Browns running back Dion Lewis used Twitter to chime in on the Aaron Hernandez case, pointing out that one of Hernandez?s friends ?snitched? on him.? Lewis deleted the tweet.

On Thursday, teammate Greg Little used the social media mega-platform to comment on the most recent Patriots arrest, with cornerback Alfonzo Dennard apprehended for suspicion of DUI.

?Off season of the DUIs sheesh!? Little said.

Actually, the 2013 offseason isn?t much of an aberration.? A total of eight players and two team employees have been arrested for DUI or suspicion of it? since the 2012 regular season ended.? Last year, 13 DUI arrests occurred during the offseason.

Any DUI arrest is one too many, since every DUI arrest could lead to serious injury or death.? It should have been a lot lower this offseason, since in December a DUI incident involving Cowboys defensive lineman Josh Brent claimed the life of Cowboys linebacker Jerry Brown.

So basically whatever the NFL is doing to fully and finally solve the problem isn?t working.? At some point, the NFLPA needs to realize that efforts by the league to beef up DUI penalties is less about making a concession and more about engaging in self-preservation.

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After tweaks, Facebook unleashes 'Graph Search' on the world

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveils the "Graph Search" feature during a January news conference. After running into privacy issues, the company is finally making the feature available to all English-language users.

NEW YORK ? Users who may have grown frustrated with Facebook's rudimentary search feature are getting an updated version designed to make it easier to find people, places and photos on the site.

Facebook unveiled its social search tool in January, but only made it available to a small fraction of its 1.1 billion users, as its engineers continued to tweak and test it. Over the next few weeks, starting on Monday, the company is rolling out the social search tool, called "Graph Search," to everyone whose language is set to U.S. English.

Unlike searches on Google, which are good for finding specific things like roasted kale recipes or Mizuno running shoes, Facebook's tool is most useful in unearthing information about your social circles. Graph Search lets you find friends who live in San Francisco who are vegan. Friends of friends who live near you and like hiking. Photos of your boyfriend taken before you met him in 2010. Nearby restaurants that your friends like ? and so on.

Searching for embarrassment
But soon after Facebook launched the tool, the Internet had a field day with less innocuous and more embarrassing queries, showing just how much information people reveal about themselves on the site, intentionally or not. Care to find out which brand of condoms your friends prefer? Graph Search might tell you.

A blog called actualfacebookgraphsearches.tumblr.com posted a collection of searches ranging from "married people who like prostitutes" to "current employers of people who like racism." Both yielded more than 100 people.

While it is possible that some of those Facebook users are fully aware that what they've shared is easily searchable, it is likely that some are not. It's easy to click "like" on a page and forget about it, and it's even easier to assume that no one will search through your photos from party days at the Burning Man festival five years ago.

Notification planned
To avoid any unpleasantness, Facebook plans to notify users that it's "getting easier for people to find photos and other things you've shared with them" along with a reminder that they can check "who can see my stuff" under their privacy settings.

"The goal is to avoid bad surprises," said Nicky Jackson Colaco, privacy and safety manager at Facebook. But she stressed Facebook's view that the search tool "indexes information differently than we have ever been able to do before, in a really positive way."

It's easier, for example, to find a long-lost classmate with a common name, or to find common interests with friends of friends.

Facebook does not currently show users ads based on what they are searching for, but the company may do in the future. As Google has shown, it's a lucrative business. Research firm eMarketer estimates that Google will take nearly 42 percent of all U.S. digital ad spending this year, well above Facebook's share of less than 7 percent.

With its new search tool, Facebook is clearly trying to divert traffic and ad spending from its rival. Whether this will work will become more clear as more people begin using it.

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Around the NFL: Recent No. 1 picks give Browns hope

Under the cloud of five straight miserable seasons, Browns fans could use a ray of sunshine. This might be the most hopeful list out there as training camp approaches.

?The top seven on it still are with the team.

It is our ranking of the Browns? expansion-era, first-round draft picks in terms of relative value to the team. Obviously, in certain cases pertaining to more recent picks, projections come into play (overall draft spot included).

1, OT Joe Thomas, No. 3, 2007

If the team starts winning and he adds to his six Pro Bowls, he will be giving an August speech in Canton.

2, RB Trent Richardson, No. 3, 2012

He needs to be one of the league?s five best rushers. A franchise holds its breath.

3, QB Brandon Weeden, No. 22, 2012

If he breaks through, No. 3 might be too low. If not? Big trouble.

4, LB Barkevious Mingo, No. 6, 2013

His sunny disposition lights up a room. He had better be lighting up quarterbacks.

5, CB Joe Haden, No. 7, 2010

The team is 14-34 with as him as a shutdown corner. He needs to be more influential, starting now.

6, DT Phil Taylor, No. 21, 2011

He is hard to read since he was part of a 2012 season that was gone by the time he came back from losing eight games. He still has a big upside.

7, C Alex Mack, No. 21, 2009

He didn?t ask to be picked when the Browns could have had Clay Matthews.

8, LB Kamerion Wimbley, No. 13, 2006

He made 11 sacks as a rookie and started every game for the 2007 team that went 10-6. Forgetting the disaster of preferring him to Haloti Ngata, not a terrible pick.

9, C Jeff Faine, No. 21, 2003

He was a solid center, but not durable. Butch Davis should have fortified his line instead with Eric Steinbach, taken 33rd by the Bengals, making him a nice value in a weak draft. In 2006, Phil Savage signed LeCharles Bentley and Steinbach and traded Faine.

10, DT Gerard Warren, No. 3, 2001

Sixteen of the next 29 picks after Warren made Pro Bowls, including Justin Smith, LaDainian Tomlinson, Richard Seymour, Steve Hutchinson, Casey Hampton, Reggie Wayne and Drew Brees.

11, QB Tim Couch, No. 1, 1999

He helped the 2002 team reach the playoffs and complained about taking merciless beatings only once, after hearing derisive cheers when he was knocked out of a home game against Baltimore.

12, WR Braylon Edwards, No. 3, 2005

He isn?t the NFL?s only big disappointment picked at No. 3 (Akili Smith, Joey Harrington, Vince Young), but along with Warren, he certainly was Cleveland?s disappointment.

13, TE Kellen Winslow Jr., No. 6, 2004

It has been eight years since Winslow and two friends rode their motorcycles to a Starboyz stunt show in Canton then headed north to a parking lot where Winslow tried to emulate the ?boyz. Eight long years.

14, RB William Green, No. 16, 2002

The second half of his rookie year was an awakening. And then it was gone, leaving the question of why in the world Davis, who coached Ed Reed in college, picked Green over Reed.

15, DE Courtney Brown, No. 1, 2000

He left the league with 19 career sacks. Aldon Smith and J.J. Watt had more than that in 2012.

16, QB Brady Quinn, No. 22, 2007

This could be Weeden?s final resting place if his career develops like Quinn?s.

NEW BROWN TOUTS HARTLINE

Davone Bess, the new threat on the Browns? receiving block, spent the last four seasons as a teammate of former GlenOak star Brian Hartline.

As fellow Dolphins wideouts, they helped beat Seattle 24-21 Thanksgiving weekend, right before the Seahawks became all the rage, finishing the regular season on a five-game win streak.

Bess wound up giving the Dolphins 61 catches for 778 yards. Hartline rode a 74-catch, 1,083-yard year to a big new contract.

?Hartline is a good dude, man,? Bess told us. ?He?s a very solid, solid player. Very good route runner. Catches the ball really well. And very, very smart.?

Hartline upped his numbers from 35 catches and 549 yards in an injury-influenced 2011.

?Brian is known for asking the most questions in the meeting room,? Bess said. ?Even when it seems as if the question doesn?t matter, he?s asking. This dude is very smart.?

That?s part of what made them good teammates. Bess has quickly gained a reputation as the Browns most studious wideout.

?I try to know things,? Bess said. ?Without knowing, your athletic ability is nothing.?

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Pierre Garcon, the wide receiver the Browns and everybody else wish they would have drafted before Indy grabbed him in Round 6 in 2008, could be one of the league?s most prolific receivers if his current team, Washington, gets Robert Griffin III back as the real RG3.

And if Garcon avoids the injury bug.

?Every year I?m looking to have a big year,? Garcon told us.

After missing six games in 2012, Garcon came back to give the Redskins 36 catches during their seven-game win streak to close the regular season. That included six catches from Kirk Cousins at Cleveland.

Garcon, who has racked up 3,129 receiving yards in the last four years, is grateful to his Mount Union head coach, Larry Kehres.

?I would probably tell him, thank you for putting me on the right path,? Garcon said. ?Thank you for everything.?

NOT ALONE ON THE MISS

The Browns weren?t the only team that guessed wrong on which wideout available in 2008 would pan out.

They picked Wisconsin?s Paul Hubbard at No. 191 overall, 24 spots before the Colts grabbed Garcon.

AFC North members Cincinnati (Jerome Simpson, No. 46), Pittsburgh (Limas Sweed, No. 53) and Baltimore (Marcus Smith, No. 106) also passed on Garcon in favor of other wideouts. Their NFL paths:

? Simpson: 1,001 yards in four years with Bengals, 274 yards for Vikings in 2012.

? Sweed. Caught seven passes in three years before the Steelers waived him in September of 2011.

? Hubbard. Landed in the CFL in 2012 after catching one pass in a real game amid trials with the Browns, Raiders and Bills.

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SF rapid transit talks break down; strike possible

BART station agent Mark Madrigal helps a customer at the Lake Merritt station in Oakland, Calif., Friday, June 28, 2013. Two of San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit's largest unions gave notice that they plan to go on strike if they don't reach a new contract deal over the weekend. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

BART station agent Mark Madrigal helps a customer at the Lake Merritt station in Oakland, Calif., Friday, June 28, 2013. Two of San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit's largest unions gave notice that they plan to go on strike if they don't reach a new contract deal over the weekend. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

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BART station agent Mark Madrigal helps a customer at the Lake Merritt station in Oakland, Calif., Friday, June 28, 2013. Two of San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit's largest unions gave notice that they plan to go on strike if they don't reach a new contract deal over the weekend. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) ? A chief negotiator said Saturday that two of San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit's largest unions will "likely" go on strike.

Josie Mooney, a negotiator for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Local 1021 SEIU, said there's "a 95 percent chance" that her union and the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), Local 1555, will be on strike Monday after their contracts expire late Sunday.

"I'm afraid I don't see a way we will avoid a strike," she said after union leaders left Saturday's negotiations claiming they have met with BART's management for only 10 minutes in the past 36 hours.

The walkout adds further speculation that a strike could derail the more than 400,000 riders who use the nation's fifth-largest rail system.

Mooney said the unions have no plans to meet with BART on Sunday.

BART spokesman Rick Rice said Saturday says that the agency still has a meeting scheduled with the unions on Sunday. He said BART has submitted its second new proposal to the unions since Thursday.

"We called our mediator to deliver it to them and informed us they had left the building," Rice said. "Maybe they will show a willingness to come back to the table. We'll still be here."

With a Sunday night deadline approaching, negotiations between BART and the unions had intensified with a possible strike at stake.

As the parties went back to the bargaining table Saturday in Oakland for anticipated around-the-clock sessions, both sides described the talks as tense and said they were far apart on key sticking points including salary, pensions, health care and safety.

A work stoppage that could start as early as Monday would be chaotic for commuters and affect every mode of transportation, clogging highways and bridges throughout the Bay Area. More than 400,000 riders use BART each day.

The unions want a 5 percent annual raise over the next three years. BART said Saturday that train operators and station agents in the unions average about $71,000 in base salary and $11,000 in overtime annually. The workers also pay a flat $92 monthly fee for health insurance.

Meanwhile, BART has offered a 1 percent raise annually over the next four years and for employees to contribute to their pensions.

The unions' current contract expires at midnight Sunday. On Friday, the ATU asked California Gov. Jerry Brown to issue a 60-day "cooling off" period if no deal can be reached by Sunday's deadline, but the SEIU and BART officials have urged Brown not to issue such an order.

The governor's office has declined to comment.

"Negotiations are frustrating," Rice said. "But, we'll be here, no matter long it takes. We're committed to work this out."

BART's last strike lasted six days in 1997. On Friday, other area transit agencies urged commuters to consider carpooling, taking buses or ferries, working from home and, if they must drive to work, to leave earlier or even later than usual.

"The bottom line is that a BART strike will be an absolute nightmare for everyone," said Jim Wunderman, president and CEO of the Bay Area Council, a business advocacy organization. "Our transportation system simply does not have the capacity to absorb the more than 400,000 BART riders who will be left at the station. There will be serious pain."

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Cutlery: Do size, weight, shape and color matter?

June 26, 2013 ? The appearance of cutlery can affect perception of a food's taste, reports BioMed Central's open access journal Flavour. Food tastes saltier when eaten from a knife, and denser and more expensive from a light plastic spoon. Taste was also affected by the color of the cutlery.

The crockery we use has been shown to alter our perception of food and drink. Beverages in cold colored glasses were rated more refreshing and the weight and color of a plate can alter how dense, salty or sweet food tastes. In this study, researchers from the University of Oxford demonstrated that cutlery can also have an impact on how we experience food.

They found that when the weight of the cutlery confirms expectations (e.g. a plastic spoon is light), yoghurt seemed denser and more expensive. Color contrast is also an important factor: white yoghurt when eaten from a white spoon was rated sweeter, more liked, and more expensive than pink-colored yoghurt. These effects were reversed for yoghurt tasted from a black spoon, which suggests that color contrast mediates the effects of cutlery on flavor perception. Similarly, when offered cheese on a knife, spoon, fork or toothpick, the cheese from a knife tasted saltiest.

Dr Vanessa Harrar and Prof Charles Spence, who performed this study, explain, "How we experience food is a multisensory experience involving taste, feel of the food in our mouths, aroma, and the feasting of our eyes. Even before we put food into our mouths our brains have made a judgment about it, which affects our overall experience."

Vanessa Harrar continued, "Subtly changing eating implements and tableware can affect how pleasurable, or filling, food appears. So, when serving a dish, one should keep in mind that the color of the food appears different depending on the background on which it is presented (plate or cutlery) and, therefore, tastes different. This may also be used to help control eating patterns such as portion size or how much salt is added to food. Alternatively, people may be able to make better food choices if their ingrained color associations are disrupted by less constant advertising and packaging."

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Supreme Court strikes federal marriage provision

Michael Knaapen, left, and his husband John Becker, right, embrace outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, June 26, 2013, after the court cleared the way for same-sex marriage in California by holding that defenders of California's gay marriage ban did not have the right to appeal lower court rulings striking down the ban. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Michael Knaapen, left, and his husband John Becker, right, embrace outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, June 26, 2013, after the court cleared the way for same-sex marriage in California by holding that defenders of California's gay marriage ban did not have the right to appeal lower court rulings striking down the ban. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Ellen Pontac, ,left, and her wife Shelly Bailes, celebrate after the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on gay marriage in California Wednesday, June 26, 2013, in Sacramento, Calif. The justices issued two 5-4 rulings in their final session of the term. One decision wiped away part of a federal anti-gay marriage law that has kept legally married same-sex couples from receiving tax, health and pension benefits. The other was a technical legal ruling that said nothing at all about same-sex marriage, but left in place a trial court's declaration that California's Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Juan Talavera, right, kisses his partner Jeff Ronci after the announcement of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling at a watch party in Miami, Wednesday, June 26, 2013. The justices issued two 5-4 rulings in their final session of the term. One decision wiped away part of a federal anti-gay marriage law that has kept legally married same-sex couples from receiving tax, health and pension benefits. The other was a technical legal ruling that said nothing at all about same-sex marriage, but left in place a trial court's declaration that California's Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

American University students Sharon Burk, left, and Molly Wagner participate in a rally for rights for gay couples in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, June 26, 2013, after the court cleared the way for same-sex marriage in California by holding that defenders of California's gay marriage ban did not have the right to appeal lower court rulings striking down the ban. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Plaintiffs in the California Proposition 8 gay marriage case Paul Katami, center, and his partner Jeff Zarrillo, greet former Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, June 26, 2013. In a major victory for gay rights, the Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a provision of a federal law denying federal benefits to married gay couples and cleared the way for the resumption of same-sex marriage in California. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? In a historic victory for gay rights, the Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a provision of a federal law denying federal benefits to married gay couples and cleared the way for the resumption of same-sex marriage in California.

The justices issued two 5-4 rulings in their final session of the term. One decision wiped away part of a federal anti-gay marriage law that has kept legally married same-sex couples from receiving tax, health and pension benefits.

The other was a technical ruling that said nothing at all about same-sex marriage, but left in place a trial court's declaration that California's Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. Gov. Jerry Brown quickly ordered that marriage licenses be issued to gay couples as soon as a federal appeals court lifts its hold on the lower court ruling, possibly next month.

In neither case did the court make a sweeping statement, either in favor of or against same-sex marriage. And in a sign that neither victory was complete for gay rights, the high court said nothing about the validity of gay marriage bans in California and roughly three dozen other states. A separate provision of the federal marriage law that allows a state to not recognize a same-sex union from elsewhere remains in place.

President Barack Obama praised the court's ruling on the federal marriage act, which he labeled "discrimination enshrined in law."

"It treated loving, committed gay and lesbian couples as a separate and lesser class of people," Obama said in a statement. "The Supreme Court has righted that wrong, and our country is better off for it."

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said he was disappointed in the outcome of the federal marriage case and hoped states continue to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

The ruling in the California case was not along ideological lines. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Antonin Scalia.

"We have no authority to decide this case on the merits, and neither did the 9th Circuit," Roberts said, referring to the federal appeals court that also struck down Proposition 8.

In the case involving the federal Defense of Marriage Act, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, joined by the court's liberal justices.

"Under DOMA, same-sex married couples have their lives burdened, by reason of government decree, in visible and public ways," Kennedy said.

"DOMA's principal effect is to identify a subset of state-sanctioned marriages and make them unequal," he said.

Some in the crowd outside the court hugged and others jumped up and down just after 10 a.m. EDT Wednesday when the DOMA decision was announced. Many people were on their cell phones monitoring Twitter, news sites and blogs for word of the decision. And there were cheers as runners came down the steps with the decision in hand and turned them over to reporters who quickly flipped through the decisions.

Chants of "Thank you" and "USA" came from the crowd as plaintiffs in the cases descended the court's marbled steps. Most of those in the crowd appeared to support gay marriage, although there was at least one man who held a sign promoting marriage as between a man and a woman.

Kennedy was joined in the DOMA decision by the court's four liberal justices.

Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, and Scalia dissented.

Same-sex marriage has been adopted by 12 states and the District of Columbia. Another 18,000 couples were married in California during a brief period when same-sex unions were legal there.

The outcome is clear for people who were married and live in states that allow same-sex marriage. They now are eligible for federal benefits.

The picture is more complicated for same-sex couples who traveled to another state to get married, or who have moved from a gay marriage state since being wed.

Their eligibility depends on the benefits they are seeking. For instance, immigration law focuses on where people were married, not where they live. But eligibility for Social Security survivor benefits basically depends on where a couple is living when a spouse dies.

The rulings came 10 years to the day after the court's Lawrence v. Texas decision that struck down state bans on gay sex. In his dissent at the time, Scalia predicted the ruling would lead to same-sex marriage.

Massachusetts was the first state to allow gay couples to marry, in 2004. When same-sex unions resume in California, there will be 13 states representing 30 percent of the U.S. population where gay marriage is legal.

The other 11 are Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.

Outside the court, gay marriage proponents celebrated both wins.

May the marriages begin," said the Human Rights Campaign's Chad Griffin, who helped spearhead the lawsuit challenging Proposition 8. The two same-sex couples who sued for the right to marry also were at the court Wednesday.

In New York City's Greenwich Village, the Stonewall Inn, where a riot in 1969 sparked the gay rights movement, erupted in cheers and whooping.

Mary Jo Kennedy, 58 was there with her wife Jo-Ann Shain, 60, and their daughter Aliya Shain, 25.

She came with a sign that could be flipped either way and was holding up the side that says "SCOTUS made our family legal".

They have been together 31 years and got married day it became legal in New York.

The broadest possible ruling would have given gay Americans the same constitutional right to marry as heterosexuals. The justices said nothing on that topic in either case.

The decisions Wednesday have no effect on the roughly three dozen states that do not allow same-sex marriage, including 29 that have enshrined the bans in their constitutions.

The federal marriage law, known by its acronym DOMA, had been struck down by several federal courts.

The justices chose for their review the case of 84-year-old Edith Windsor of New York, who sued to challenge a $363,000 federal estate tax bill after her partner of 44 years died in 2009.

Windsor, who goes by Edie, married Thea Spyer in 2007 after doctors told them Spyer would not live much longer. She suffered from multiple sclerosis for many years. Spyer left everything she had to Windsor.

Windsor would have paid nothing in inheritance taxes if she had been married to a man. And now she is eligible for a refund.

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Associated Press writers Connie Cass, Jessica Gresko and Bethan McKernan contributed to this report. McKernan reported from New York.

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Top 4 Mid-Cap Stocks In The Farm & Construction Machinery ...

Below are the top mid-cap farm & construction machinery stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of operating margin.

The trailing-twelve-month operating margin at Joy Global (NYSE: JOY) is 21.25%. Joy Global had $234.88 million in total cash for the latest quarter.

The trailing-twelve-month operating margin at CNH Global NV (NYSE: CNH) is 12.07%. CNH Global's ROE for the same period is 13.76%.

The trailing-twelve-month operating margin at The Manitowoc Company (NYSE: MTW) is 7.47%. Manitowoc's revenue for the same period is $3.97 billion.

The trailing-twelve-month operating margin at AGCO (NYSE: AGCO) is 7.17%. AGCO's profit margin for the same period is 5.15%.

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Snowden's whereabouts a mystery; Paula Deen loses major deal

>> but first, edward snowden remains at large. an international showdown is brewing over to justice. this morning russian officials have called u.s. demands for snowden 's extradition unacceptable while simultaneous simultaneously saying that snowed hans not entered russia. dozens of journalists booked tickets aboard a flight from moscow to cuba awaiting snowden 's arrival. had some people covering it on tv, maps, this is where he could be, but it's not. it was fantastic.

>> did any network rent a helicopter.

>> who knows. but snowden never appeared. one reporter tweeting his empty seat. wikileaks founder julian assange who helped snowden flee from hong kong said snowden is healthy and safe and awaiting word over his asylum request from ecuador. president obama says the government exploring all legal options as the u.s. puts pressure on moscow to hand over the former contractor.

>> we are just not buying that this was a technical decision by a hong kong immigration official. this was a dplib brats choice by the government to release a fugitive despite a valid arrest warrant and that decision unquestionably has a negative impact on the u.s./china relationship.

>> i suppose there's no small irony here. i mean i wonder if mr. snowden chose china and russia as assistance in his -- in his flight from justice because they're such powerful bastions of internet freedom and wonder if while he was in either of those countries he raised the questions of internet freedoms since that seems to be what he champions.

>> secretary kerry says people will die because of the information that snowden has revealed. meanwhile, the south china post --

>> people will also die if they eat paula deen 's food.

>> we're getting there.

>> a related story.

>> we're getting there. you might want to be careful and take lipitor.

>> i crushed it up in my -- you crush up your pills, i crush up my pills in my oatmeal.

>> don't talk about my pills. snowden took his job with contractor booz allen hamilton to try to expose nsa programs through media leaks. he went into it, into the job, working to screw over our government.

>> yes.

>> the company he works for. you want to hear about paula deen . i don't know why. the court deposition in which paula deen admitted to using racial slurs and jokes continues to take a financial toll on the celebrity chef . on friday, the food network announced it will not renew deen's contract at the end of the month, a deal worth a reported $50,000 per episode and now smithfield foods has cut ties with deen, condemning her, quote, use of offensive and discriminatory language. deen has endorsed smithfield foods since 2006 . forbes ranked paula deen as its fourth highest earning chef pulling in $17 million in 2012 .

>> have you seen what she does? have you seen the cookbooks.

>> i've eaten her food. i went on "the view" and they had like a whole table of food that paula made and i had let's just say an obsessed moment. i ate it all. it was all fat and sugar and butter and it was so absolutely unhealthy and delicious, but totally, totally unhealthy. nothing good on the table.

>> you see the cookbook.

>> all --

>> it was just like --

>> fat fat fat.

>> m&m waffles.

>> who would have thought that the solution to america's obesity crisis would be paula deen saying a few racially insensitive things. now she's ban from the air the average weight of america's children will now drop by two or three pounds progressively.

>> we'll read it later.

>> what has happened to this country, "forbes" magazine now keeps track of the highest earning chefs?

>> these celebrity chefs.

>> what is going on with this country?

>> mike barnicle --

>> really makes the food --

>> cook. how much does the cook make? stop it.

>> i know. it's --

>> look at mike. he's a man out of time. he was complaining yesterday that "mad men" get past 1963 .

>> that's the last i remember.

>> you haven't seen "mad men" this year?

>> i saw a couple episodes.

>> i saw the finale.

>> did you see the finale?

>> i did.

>> oh, my gosh. i cannot believe he got shot at the end.

>> oh, no.

>> i never saw it coming.

>> did you just do that? are you making it up?

>> put on the journey song.

>> it was a little weird to have the -- --

>> "don't stop believing" in 1968 .

>> it wasn't out in '68.

>> exactly.

>> why did they kill him and what is he doing in jersey.

>> they killed him?

>> you're kidding.

>> he went to a diner in jersey and put on journey and --

>> you're all --

>> i don't have to watch it.

>> what's coming up next?

>> can i talk and move us through this?

>> the bruins lost.

>> what a shock.

>> awful.

>> coming up on " morning joe ," senator tom coburn will be here along with david axelrod , reverend al sharpton and actor adrian grenier here with his documentary "how to make money selling drugs".

>> you can make money selling drugs if who knew.

>> star of this show. coming up next the top --

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Excited, but cold: Scientists unveil the secret of a reaction for prebiotic synthesis of organic matter

June 24, 2013 ? How is it that a complex organism evolves from a pile of dead matter? How can lifeless materials become organic molecules that are the bricks of animals and plants? Scientists have been trying to answer these questions for ages. Researchers at the Max Planck Institut f?r Kohlenforschung have now disclosed the secret of a reaction that has to do with the synthesis of complex organic matter before the origin of life.

Since the 1960's it has been well known that when concentrated hydrogen cyanide (HCN) is irradiated by UV light, it forms an imidazole intermediate that is a key substance for synthesis of nucleobases and nucleotides in abiotic environment. The way how UV radiation acts in this reaction to produce complex organic matter was, however, never clarified. Dr. Mario Barbatti and his colleagues in Germany, India and Czech Republic have now shown how this process occurs via computer simulations.

Using diverse computational-chemistry methods, the team has arrived at astonishing conclusions: For example that the reaction does not take place in the hot spot created by the solar radiation. "This has nothing to do with heat, but with electrons," says Mario Barbatti.

The reaction proceeds through a series of electronically excited intermediates. The molecules get into the "electronic excited state" because of the UV radiation, which means that their electrons are distributed in a much different way than the usual. That changes the molecule's attitudes. "But this takes some time," says Mario Barbatti. They showed that the radiation energy is dissipated too fast, and because of that each reactant molecule absorbs hundreds of UV photons before it finally gets converted into the imidazole intermediate.

"This is very inefficient -- and quite extraordinary," says Mario Barbatti. That is why it was quite challenging to comprehend the reaction, explains the physicist from Brazil. He and his colleagues have calculated a lot of possible intermediates, tried -- and discarded most of them. Finally they found out that there is only one single pathway that is consistent with the fast energy dissipation and previous experimental observations.

But why did they work on the computer? Isn't it the case that chemical reactions are worked on in laboratories? "Some intermediates are too elusive to analyze them in the laboratory -- they disappear before we may see them," Barbatti explains. Computational Chemistry allows the scientists to comprehend the reactions in a theoretical way.

"As I said before, this reaction has nothing to do with heat," says Barbatti. The transformation works in a cold environment, as in comets and in terrestrial ices, where spontaneous HCN polymerization is most expected to occur.

The team has published their results, which help to understand the role of solar radiation on the origin of life, in the recent issue of Angewandte Chemie.

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