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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Alexis Bledel is eyeing a regular return to the small screen. Bledel, who starred as Rory Gilmore on "Gilmore Girls" for seven years, has been cast as the female lead in Fox's comedy pilot "Friends and Family." The series, based on the BBC series "Gavin & Stacey," follows the long distance budding romance of a couple whose romantic relationship is constantly disrupted by their friends and family. Bledel will star opposite Jason Ritter as the female half of the beleaguered couple. ...

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Based in Australia, automotive photographer Easton Chang prides himself on his complete involvement in the automotive photography workflow ? from conception through visualisation, to the final digital image. via PhotoHab ? Photography Hubs and Blogs.

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Health and Fitness Series: How Food Corporations Manipulate Your ...

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Have you ever felt like you just can?t shake off the weight? Do you know someone who has ever struggled with diet and exercise plans to stay in shape?

Do you know anyone in your family who suffers from heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, or food related cancers? Have you ever wondered why you just can?t stop eating that huge bag of potato chips or why you have to put in long hours on the treadmill or elliptical machine to keep your diet in check?

Have you ever wondered why this has only recently become a major problem in America? Look no further than the how corporate agribusiness and the processed food industry ? the huge conglomerates that produce most of the food in your local grocery store ? which have been ?optimizing? their products with all sorts of complex mathematical equations for the past thirty years to addict you to high calorie garbage food which is scientifically designed to have low nutritional value and to always leave you craving for that next serving of Doritos:

Note: This excerpt comes from Michael Moss?s Salt, Sugar, Fat: How The Food Industry Hooked Us?which shows how the fatal combination of capitalist agriculture with liberty and democracy at the grocery store has been destroying your health.

?Both fat and salt are at the heart of Frito-Lay?s operations in Plano, Texas, and some of the companies favorite methods for manipulating these two ingredients were relayed to me by a former chief scientist there named Robert I-San Lin. These include a remarkable effort by company officials to reduce the ideal snack to a mathematical equation of taste and convenience ? ?P = A1T + A2C + A3U ? B1$ -B2H ? B3Q,? with the P standing for Purchase and the allure of fat and salt easily overcoming the H, or the public?s health concerns.

I would find out that one of the most compelling and unsettling, aspects of the role of salt, sugar and fat in processed foods is the way the industry, in an effort to boost their power, has sought to alter their physical shape and structure. Scientists at Nestle are currently fiddling with the distribution and shape of fat globules to affect their absorption rate and, as it?s known in the world?s leading supplier of salt, their ?mouthfeel.? At Cargill, the world?s leading supplier of salt, scientists are altering the physical shape of salt, pulverizing it into a fine powder to hit the taste buds faster and harder, improving what the company calls its ?flavor burst.? Sugar is being altered in myriad ways as well. The sweetest component of simple sugar, fructose, has been crystallized into an additive that boats the allure of foods. Scientists have also created enhancers that amplify the sweetness of sugar to two hundred times its natural strength ?

The industry?s pursuit of allure is extremely sophisticated, and it leaves nothing to chance. Some of the largest companies are now using brain scans to study how we react neurologically to certain foods, especially to sugar. They?ve discovered that the brain lights up for sugar the same way it does for cocaine, and this knowledge is useful, not only in formulating foods. The world?s biggest ice cream maker, Unilever, for instance, parlayed its brain research into a brilliant marketing campaign that sells the eating of ice cream as a ?scientifically proven? way to make ourselves happy ?

Inevitably, the manufacturers of processed food argue that they have allowed us to become the people we want to be, fast and busy, no longer slaves to the stoves. But in their hands, the salt, sugar, and fat they have used to propel this social transformation are not nutrients as much as weapons ? weapons they deploy, certainly, to defeat their competitors but also to keep us coming back for more.?

Source: http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2013/03/05/health-and-fitness-series-how-food-corporations-manipulate-your-diet/

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Cocktail-dispensing robot can mix a drink in seconds

Some tasks are better left up to computers, like playing "Jeopardy," calculating pi, and mixing cocktails. Wait ... mixing cocktails? If you don't think a computer can whip up a compelling cocktail, then you haven't met Bartendro.

A creation of the awesomely named company Party Robotics, Bartendro is a robot mixologist crafted from peristaltic pumps, Raspberry Pi, custom electronic dispenser boards, and food-grade tubing. It may simultaneously be the least-necessary and most-desirable robot in the world.

The cocktail-dispensing machine can turn out a drink in less than 10 seconds. It can churn out 200 cocktails in an evening -- and it won't break a sweat, take a bathroom break, or hit on your girlfriend. Don't worry, you can still sit there and tell it all your problems. It won't interrupt and it won't judge you.

Perhaps the best part of Bartendro is that it's not relegated to a lab somewhere far away where you'll never get to bask in its boozy glory. It's on Kickstarter. Early backers can get in on a Shotbot for $249, a working robot that dispenses shots from a single bottle.

Let's be realistic, though. You won't be satisfied with just a Shotbot. You're going to want to move up the pledge ranks and jump straight to the $2,499 level for a 15-bottle Bartendro. You just need to provide a tablet or smartphone to tell it what to do. Sure, the smaller Bartendros cost a lot less money, but for sheer overpowering robotic cocktail mayhem, you can't beat a Bartendro 15.

Let's raise a glass to Bartendro. I'm hoping it reaches its $135,000 goal, and Party Robotics is able to put the machines into wider production. If I had one of these, I would never leave my house again.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bartendro-robot-mixologist-crafts-cocktails-with-raspberry-pi-234747689.html

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Plantronics Calisto 620

The Plantronics Calisto 620 ($149.95 direct) is a combination Bluetooth wireless and PC speakerphone. Essentially, it turns your computer and phone into a call conferencing system for office or home use. It also has a rechargeable battery; combine that with the Calisto 620's light weight, and you also have a system that travels easily for use in hotel rooms or satellite offices. Unfortunately, while callers sound nice and loud through the Calisto 620's speaker, they can easily tell you're on a speakerphone?and not a very good one at that.

Design, USB Receiver, and Compatibility
The Calisto 620 is made entirely of black plastic. It measures 4.33 by 4.33 by 1.26 inches (HWD) and weighs 7.2 ounces, or slightly more than the average smartphone. On top, oversized plastic buttons handle Mute, Answer/Reject, and Volume adjustments. On the side of the unit below the Plantronics logo is a sliding switch that handles Power and Bluetooth pairing, plus a micro USB port for charging the device or plugging it into your PC.

The package contains the Calisto 620, a zippered cloth carrying pouch, a USB-compatible AC adapter, and a USB-to-microUSB cable. Underneath the 620 is a compartment containing a tiny USB receiver, which you can plug into a PC or Mac for making wireless VoIP calls with Skype and other clients.

For this review, I tested the Calisto 620 with an Apple iPhone 5 and Skype on a dual-core Thinkpad laptop running Windows 7. One note: I'm reviewing the standard Calisto 620 (P620), which is a UC standard model that works with Avaya, Cisco, IBM, Skype, and other clients. There's also a separate P620-M version that's specifically Microsoft-certified and optimized for use with Microsoft Lync 2010 and Microsoft OCS 2007 only. Either way, it's a fully A2DP-compliant device for streaming audio, so you could use it as a mono source for playing background music or listening to podcasts.

Performance and Conclusions
The Calisto 620 includes bi-directional microphones that only activate in the direction of a person's voice, to lower the possibility of extra background noise creeping into the signal on the other end. The Calisto 620 also has what Plantronics calls 360-degree full duplex audio, meaning that it projects sound from callers out into your room, as well as transmitting voices on your side of the call. Finally, Plantronics includes DSP circuitry to smooth over audio dropouts and reduce noise.

The 360-degree speakers work fine in practice; it's easy to hear callers even in noisy rooms, and they sound surprisingly loud and full. Here's the problem: Everyone on the other end will be able to tell you're on a speakerphone. My voice came through reasonably clear and intelligibly, but it sounded computerized and oddly distant, more so even than it does through many cell phone speakerphones.

The built-in battery offers seven hours of continuous talk time, or up to five days of standby, on a single charge. On Plantronics' website, you can download Spokes, a free program that makes controlling calls from multiple sources easier. It also installs a battery meter for the Calisto 620 in your PC's icon tray, and updates your UC presence status whether you're on a mobile call or a PC call.

Overall, the Calisto 620 does what it's supposed to do, but I wish it offered better microphone transmission quality. If you need a portable speaker that works in a conference room, a hotel room, and on your desk, the Calisto 620 is tempting and fine for casual use, but I wouldn't make critical business calls from it.

There's a hole in the market for this sort of product too. There are numerous other battery-powered speakerphones on the market, like the Motorola Roadster 2 or SuperTooth HD, but most of these are designed to be clipped onto a sun visor inside your car, and only work on a desktop or table in a pinch?and none of these models have the 360-degree speakers and microphones the Calisto 620 has. But those are good options for hands-free Bluetooth calls while driving.

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Inkulator For Windows 8 (Freeware)

Inkulator For Windows 8 is an easy to use application designed to help you perform simple mathematical operations using the Metro interface.

Inkulator For Windows 8 detects hand written numbers and operators and automatically determines the results. You can use it to perform additions, subtractions, multiplications and divisions.

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Gear4 spreads Lightning connector love with $129 alarm clock, $79 portable speaker dock

Looking to build up a collection of accessories for that newfangled Lightning connector on your iPhone 5? Well, Gear4 is hoping that you'll start off with an alarm clock (and in the process, forget about iHome's duo of bedside companions, which will soon hit the market). Vying for your attention is the AlarmDock Halo 3, which retails for $129.99 and is on sale as of today. The system includes a companion app called SmartLink that lets users choose from a variety of music sources -- iTunes, Spotify and networked tunes all qualify -- and the app also ensures that any alarms you set on the Halo 3 will be synced to the iPhone, and vice versa. The AlarmDock Halo 3 also offers FM radio, line-in audio, a dimming LCD display, customizable alarm sounds (for when your iPhone is lost in the couch cushions) and, thankfully, a snooze button.

Also shipping from Gear4 today is the StreetParty 5, a portable, Lightning-loving speaker dock that's powered by four AA batteries. Sadly, there's no line-in audio support here, but if you're properly equipped, the $79.99 system will have you disturbing the peace in no time. Hop the break for a peek, won'tcha?

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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/05/gear4-ships-alarmdock-halo-3-streetparty-5/

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