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Cloves, cardamom, cinnamon : the benefits! (And a recipe for Yogi Tea)
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Cloves, cardamom, cinnamon…. perfect for a those cold winter days.
By Dr. Heather Manley
These are a few of my favorite warming spices. I love them all for their sweet spicy taste, their medicinal qualities and that they can be used in baking or thrown together to make a yummy chai tea.
Medically, you might be wonder? They are all packed with some essentials to not only warm up your insides and get your blood pumping but few more benefits that may entice you to add more of them to your baking ad teas.
History: The scientific name is Syzygium aromaticum. Cloves come form the clove tree which is an evergreen and is native to the Malaku Island ( if you didn't know – which I didn't – is in Indonesia).
A little history side note: In Europe, although we did this in Canada, we would poke cloves into oranges (pomanders) and hang around the house at Christmas time. It kept us busy as kids and had a lovely holiday scent.
Health Benefits: Eugenol is the active component in cloves that functions as an anti-inflammatory. An excellent source of the trace mineral manganese, which is found in the bones, liver , kidneys and pancreas. It aids in forming connective tissues, and has a role in fat and carbohydrate production and blood sugar regulation.
A surprise health benefit: Clove oil rubbed into a teething babies' gum can really aid in numbing and reducing any teething pain.
History: Cardamom is part of the ginger family and comes form India where is extensively used in curries and Chai tea. In its' native country, it's referred to as, Grains of Paradise.
A little history side note: Cardamom is also been used as an aphrodisiac and added to many love potions!
Health benefits: Cardamom cleanses the kidney and bladder, stimulates the digestive juices, and may improve circulation to the lungs and helpful in asthmatics and when there is a lung infection.
History: Cinnamon is one of the oldest spices. There are 2 known types: Chinese and Ceylon however, the Ceylon is slightly sweeter yet maybe more difficult to find in the grocery store.
Health benefits: There are many health benefit to cinnamon. It has anti-microbial properties and the oil, possibly be an effective preservative to many packaged foods. The widely known benefit is controlling blood sugar balance in the body. According to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, It does this by slowing the time in which the stomach empties after meals, which lessons the the rise in blood sugar during a meal.
Many years ago, someone gave me Cynthia's Lair's book, Feeding the Whole Family. I have used many of her recipes and her version of Chai Tea has been an annual holiday family treat.
Yogi Tea
4 cups of water
10 whole cloves
12 whole cardamom pods
12 peppercorns
2 sicks of cinnamon
4 slices of fresh ginger, 1/4 inch thick
1 cup of milk – soy, goat, cow, rice, hemp
Maple syrup or raw honey to taste
Bring water, spices, and ginger root to a boil in a pot. Lower heat and simmer for 15 – 20 minutes. Add milk. Turn off heat and strain into mugs. Add sweetener if desire.


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Hello, hive! I would like to wish everyone a very HEALTHY and HAPPY 2013! May all your wedding planning go smoothly. May your big day be perfection. And if it's not perfection, I hope that you still leave the party with a huge smile because you just married an amazing guy. Maybe you got engaged over the holidays or maybe you are knee-deep in the planning process (like me) and just need a quiet little reminder, so here it is: Breath in and out deeply. You can do this.
I tend to become easily overwhelmed when starting a new project. This was something that plagued me in college and graduate school. At the beginning of each semester I would receive a course syllabus rife with assignments, projects, and due dates. I would panic, which would often lead to a total emotional meltdown. Eventually this panic runs its course and I am calm enough to talk myself into a "can do," problem solving attitude. I start by breaking the project or assignment into smaller, more manageable tasks. I also like to make to-do lists where I ask myself, "What can I cross of this list today?" I remember to always take things one day at time. To sum this up in a pithy quote: The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. You will never take that first step if you are too busy being emotionally crippled by everything that must be accomplished along the way.
The same advice holds true for wedding planning. I think many women are initially overwhelmed with the amount of planning and decision-making that comes along with throwing a wedding, myself included. You have friends, relatives, coworkers, and complete strangers offering up all kinds of advice or recommendations. To make matters worse, you are immediately bombarded with a thousand minute (but seemingly huge and important) decisions. Everything from wedding colors, to cake flavors, favors, venues, music, vows, and more. There's lots of weighing pros and cons, rationalizing, and second guessing yourself. But one of the best things you can do is to make a decision and then come to peace with that decision. Walk away from it. We all want to make sound, well-researched choices. Unfortunately there isn't always time or energy to make the perfect choice every time, so sometimes the good enough choice needs to take precedent. And you need to be okay with that!
Here's a tale that might ring true with my fellow DIY warriors. My dad (who generally gives the best advice) has something he calls the 90%. Essentially his philosophy is that all the extra time and energy you put into making something 100% isn't usually worth the investment, nor is it outwardly noticeable to anyone but yourself. Most of the time 90% should be good enough. If you are familiar with economics, this is basically the concept of diminishing marginal returns. He came up with this idea while vacuuming dog hair out of his car. I really like to imagine my dad tediously vacuuming up dog hair while pondering life's big philosophical questions. I am the type of person who will run herself into the ground in an attempt to reach 100%. I could spend hours or days on a lesson plan that is over in 50 minutes and which my students do not appreciate. I have to go above and beyond, when really, 90% would have sufficed and no one but me would have known the difference. I guess it's all about knowing when to pick your battles. And some battles just need 90%.
|My brother and me hanging out with dad, giver of great advice and proponent of the 90% rule.
Another important piece of advice, which I inherently understood and yet initially failed to follow: stop trying to do everything on your own. I wouldn't necessarily call myself a control freak, but sometimes it's hard for me to delegate tasks to others. I guess I like knowing things are done right the first time and it's hard for me to trust other people to complete tasks that are up to my standards. Well guess what? That's irrational and silly and creates extra, unnecessary stress. Let your eager friends and family help out (but don't turn them into indentured servants!). And that means your fiancé too, that poor guy who might not have any idea what he's gotten himself into.
One night I was up late, tossing and turning in bed when I glanced over at Mr. C. He had passed out the moment his head touched the pillow and was sleeping peacefully. Why was I the one up late worrying about wedding details while he was soundly sleeping? First of all, I think that women are terrible about taking their worries and troubles to bed with them. I think men are better at shutting out the mental noise that stirs in our brains and causes worry and anxiety. Secondly, at the time Mr. C did not have my massive wedding checklist floating around his mind. He was blissfully unaware of all that needed to be accomplished in order to throw the wedding of our dreams. That's because I was the one who was scrolling through wedding blogs making my mental wish list. I was the one on The Knot trying not to freak out when I saw the massive wedding checklist. I was the one with the inspiration folder of DIY projects just waiting to be started (or finished). To be fair, we made all of the big decisions together, but I was starting to become overwhelmed with the details, especially since I've also undertaken designing the save-the-dates and invitations.
He had no idea I was feeling overwhelmed until one day I had a mini-meltdown. "I can't do this by myself!" I cried. Mr. C was taken aback by this sudden deluge of emotions. He had no idea I was silently obsessing over these details. I had let the worry pile up and pile up until I couldn't hold it back anymore. I told him I felt like Frodo carrying the One Ring into Mordor. I was carrying this massive burden on my own. I was the one having nightmares about a wedding with missing chairs, bad food, and absent bridesmaids. I was the one stressing about vendors and hair stylists. And really, that was my fault. I hadn't showed him the checklist. I hadn't communicated my expectations. I hadn't assigned him any tasks. He didn't know a thing about scouting out rehearsal dinner locations, out of town guest baskets, escort cards, or booking hotel room blocks. As soon as I communicated my frustrations to him, he immediately asked what he could do to make the wedding planning burden easier. So I did something I should have done weeks earlier: I assigned specific tasks to him. And you know what? The world did not end. He completed them and he did an awesome job. That's because I'm marrying a very capable and responsible guy to whom I wasn't giving enough credit.
|I sit and ponder why I didn't enlist Mr. C's help earlier.
Well, that's about it on advice from me (for now, anyway). To be honest, I enjoyed writing this out because I am often the one who needs to listen to my own advice the most. I need to stay calm and focused and continue taking this wedding planning journey one day at time. I need to remember that I'm not facing this journey alone but with an awesomely supportive guy by my side. I need to remember that in most cases 90% will just have to do. I need to be okay with that. Actually, I am keeping that in mind right now as I'm finishing up our save-the-dates which I can't wait to share with you!
Did you feel overwhelmed when you first started planning? What is your go-to strategy for staying calm and focused when you are feeling stressed and overwhelmed? Did you have trouble enlisting the help of your friends, family, or even your fiancé for your wedding?

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"Albert" was 25 and cocky back in 1975 when he got his license. Well, perhaps he was a tad nervous on his check ride, but thankfully he did well and would never have to do that again.
Albert thought life was good. He and his Cessna 140 were temporary based at a sleepy, little airport in the hills of northern Georgia while he oversaw the completion of a project for his employer. The pay was good. The cabin he rented fulfilled his needs and the scenery was downright pretty.
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By Christy Lemire, Associated Press Friday, August 12, 2011, 4:02 pm TWN
Pixar's track record has been close to impeccable for turning out intelligent, emotionally rich, beautifully detailed animated films, with plenty of humor and heart to appeal to movie lovers of all ages.
But the weak link in the chain, at least from a narrative standpoint, has always been 2006's "Cars" (汽車總動員), with its two-dimensional talking autos and hokey, borrowed tale of small-town life.
Sure, it was bright and zippy, which was enough to appeal to the little ones, and it became a merchandising juggernaut. Just try finding a kid who doesn't have some sort of "Cars" stuff. My 19-month-old son has a Lightning McQueen sippy cup and I have no idea how he got it — these things just show up on their own. That's how ubiquitous they are.
So sure, why not make a sequel? Trouble is, "Cars 2" is such a mess, it makes the original look like it ought to rank among Pixar's masterpieces by comparison.
What has set the studio's films apart from all the other animated fare is story: It's paramount. Innovative tales like "WALL-E" (瓦力) and "Up" (天外奇蹟) get you choked up just thinking about them, they're that good. "Cars 2" tries to encompass many kinds of stories at once, none of which is terribly clever or compelling. And the fact that Pixar mastermind John Lasseter is back as director is the most baffling part of all. This is the man who kicked it all off with the soulful and groundbreaking "Toy Story" (玩具總動員) back in 1995. This is not someone from whom you would expect empty glossiness.
Here, working from a script by Ben Queen, Lasseter makes a transparent attempt at catering to the ever-expanding global moviegoing audience by having the hero of the original "Cars," Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson), compete in an international grand prix through Japan, France, Italy and Britain. The sponsor is a Richard Branson-type Range Rover-looking vehicle (Eddie Izzard); McQueen's main rival is an arrogant Italian Formula 1 racecar (John Turturro).
At the same time, "Cars 2" panders to middle America by placing Mater, the rusty, aw-shucks tow truck, front and center. McQueen is flashier but this is Mater's time to shine, as it were; Larry the Cable Guy, who voices the character, even gets top billing over Wilson. But a little of the comedian's twangy shtick goes a long way — for the audience, and for McQueen, who gets annoyed with Mater's boorish behavior in all these refined settings. Still, Mater is there to teach us some lessons about valuing the underdog. Or not judging people because we think they're different or stupid. Or something.


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I choose Dylan Thomas's
Under Milkwood
, in preference even to
A Child's Christmas in Wales
, the latter of which is obviously more seasonally in rhyme.
Under Milkwood
is a very Christmas story that does not explicitly deal with Christmas. I supplement the return to Thomas by traffic with another mad Celt, the magnificent Flann O'Brien, and can only imagine the rare joy some older child or full adult would receive if a thoughtful friend or parent were to offer them O'Brien's
The Third Policeman
. —
Rex Murphy
Thanks to the arrival this week of
Castle Waiting 2
(Fantagraphics), Linda Medley's second subversive collection of fairy tales, I'm on yet another kick of traditional fairy tales retold. At bedtime, I'm alternating between Medley and a bit from Carolyn Turgeon's novel
Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story
(Broadway), a dark take from the fairy godmother's point of view. Also, I'm loving Judith Schalansky's
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will
(Penguin Books). —
Nathalie Atkinson
I'm going to get caught up on books I should have finished but haven't — including
Eating Animals
, by Jonathan Safran Foer, (which I'm halfway through and am totally enjoying, but I fear I'm going to become a vegetarian by the end of it). I'll also be leafing through a bunch of new cookbooks, including Harold McGee's
Keys to Good Cooking
, which basically explains how food works. But first up is
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
by David Sedaris, because I read whatever he writes, no matter what. —
Amy Rosen
The books I ordered last week from Amazon just arrived. 1.
Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life
(368 pages), by Nicholas Phillipson. Highly recommended by my colleague Peter Foster, a Smithophile. He says it's full of fresh insights into the prophet of capitalism. 2.
Cleopatra: A Life
(368 pages), by Stacy Schiff. Ms. Shiff said that if Cleopatra were alive today, she might be a hedge-fund manager. Got to know more. 3.
Frank: The Voice
(786 pages), by James Kaplan. That's (a long) life. —
Terence Corcoran
I'm currently writing a longish story about Big Sur, Calif., and so am reading Henry Miller's memoir of the place,
Big Sur
. I'm about to crack Rodger Kamenetz's
Burnt Books
, on connections between Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav and Franz Kafka. It sounds ridiculously highbrow, but Kamenetz is a great storyteller writing about two great storytellers, so it will no doubt go down easy. And David Rakoff's latest collection,
Half Empty
. I've likely read everything in it already, but he's always worth reading again. —
Mireille Silcoff
A book I've featured on my radio show many times is David Eagleman's
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
. Eagleman is a scientist who does experiments like dropping people from great heights in order to study their perception of time as they're falling. Here, he brings his inductive mind to bear on the impossible question of what might become of us once we are no more. These are short catechisms that can be sad, terrifying or ironic, but they're all evoked with a precise language that will instill a sense of wonder. —
Jonathan Goldstein
I am the worst basketball reporter on the planet. (I am just joking; read my stuff. Sometimes, it is quite good.) I say that because I have yet to read
The Breaks of the Game
, David Halberstam's account of the season he spent embedded with the Portland Trail Blazers. The book seems particularly prescient now because of Halberstam's ruminations on market disparity, free agency and player movement, all of which have been a big part of the NBA since LeBron James went to Miami in the summer. —
Eric Koreen
I'm reading
Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language
, by Robert McCrum; I make my livelihood with it, so I'd best know more about it. Re-reading:
Never Let Me Go
, by Kazuo Ishiguro; and
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
, by Philip K. Dick; two great novels, one recently adapted for the screen (and on DVD in February), the other is getting a rare 70mm screening Dec. 8 at the Bell Lightbox. Haven't yet cracked:
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
, by Siddhartha Mukherjee. —
Chris Knight
I have two novels saved for a couple of free days over the Christmas-New Year season, both recommended by my nearest and dearest: Tom Rachman's
The Imperfectionists
(2010), a Canadian's novel about the wild and crazy guys trying to keep an English-speaking newspaper alive in Rome; and March (2005), the Geraldine Brooks novel set during the U.S. Civil War, based on Louisa May Alcott. For backup, I have the
Autobiography of Mark Twain
— a scattering of fragments, I hear, but bound to be engaging nevertheless. —
Robert Fulford
Nothing says seasons greetings like a lie-down with the Roosevelt marriage in Hazel Rowley's astounding new biography,
Franklin and Eleanor
. As far as social biographies go, this is ahead-of-its-time stuff — part Liz Smith, part Doris Kearns Goodwin. Tracing the presidential couple's nonconformist love lives, which make Hillary and Bill look like Ward and June Cleaver, it shows how the couple lived in the fishbowl of history whilst giving each other "space" to cultivate romantic friendships outside of their union. —
Shinan Govani
I wanted to write myself a book for this Christmas, but it didn't work out. Luckily, friends and acquaintances stepped into the breach. From Timothy Garton Ash came a key collection,
Facts Are Subversive
, in a new soft-cover edition. With Kati Marton's
Enemies of the People
telling the story of her foreign-correspondent parents, and Biblioasis' handsome edition relating
The Pigeon Wars Of Damascus
as seen by the Canadian poet and travel-writer Marius Kociejowski, I'm looking forward to an eclectic reading Christmas. —
George Jonas
Stephen Sondheim's
Finishing the Hat
surrounds his complete lyrics with commentary (on his own work and lyric-writing in general) that's as witty, graceful and perceptive as the songs themselves. In the same category of books even better than I'd dared hope: Will Friedwald's
Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers
offers essay-length appreciations of American Songbook performers, blessedly free of snobbery (though not of omissions). I'll be reading it well into 2011, and consulting it indefinitely thereafter. —
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Well I was going to write about my time in the Dragon's Prophet and Neverwinter Beta until I noticed that I was technically under NDA so I should probably heed the warning until such a time as I am certain I can get away with it. So instead I'll write about Hell, particularly the game Dante's Inferno. For some reason its a very interesting game to me. While I'm certainly not religious the mythology behind Christianity is ripe with interesting stuff, most of which was in line with other myths of the ancient world like Egypt, the Mesopotamians and other middle east cultures from the dawn of civilization. Old monsters seemed to mostly be people with bovine features up to and including horns. But before I dig myself a deeper hole angering Christians, I mostly wanted to talk about this game and how it was almost good but ultimately failed to even live up to the very manufactured and fictional hype that EA built around it.
Dante's Inferno was an entry into the hack and slash brawler sort of genre more in the style of God of War than Devil May Cry or Bayonetta. It took a fairly well known story with the Inferno chapter of Dante's Divine Comedy which isn't actually a horrible idea. The Inferno actually makes for a decent video game setting with multiple well defined layers with specific themes that easily translate into a video game, at least most of the time! Making it a hack and slash game works out pretty well for the gruesomeness of Hell. The other 2, much lesser known, chapters of the Divine Comedy (Purgatorio and Paradiso) wouldn't have really fit the genre. They could have been made into a game though with some work, Purgatorio is defined by harsh and strenuous labor to repent for your various sins in life, so pretty much Mario Party. Paradiso on the other hand has almost no game qualities to it and seems to serve more as a comforting thought or stress free romp through a pleasing environment, so Dead or Alive Volleyball.
Dante's Inferno starts off blasting out of the gate and maintaining the momentum for the first few levels of hell. The gateway is dark and foreboding with a ride on the river Styx and a fight with King Minos, Judge of the Damned. Then its the games Pièce de résistance with the circle of Lust, symbolized by a massive tornado with people flying around in it surrounding a evil monstrous penis-tower filled with demon babies and she-demons with vagina-penises that lash out at you like clawed tentacles. You are then forced to battle a giant demonic Cleopatra with a serpentine tongue and lapping nipple-mouths that spew forth demon babies as you climb to the top where she then vomits out a mangled demonic Mark Anthony to fight you. (note: I want the previous sentences etched onto my tombstone) Comical that the developers would blow their load on the sex themed level but really after this the rest of the game pales in comparison.
The next several levels have their moments but none as complete or well done as Lust. Gluttony certainly does a good job with giant vomiting mouth monsters and organs everywhere. Then greed which is like a volcano of molten Gold where you fight your half-pig father. Then Anger which has blood everywhere and while it looks like the environment from a Frank Frazetta drawing its just not quite up to snuff. Other than the people there who historically are associated with anger or at least spilled a lot of blood, it needed more. The best part of it is when you ride the giant monster Phlegyas on a rampage through the burning City of Dis. Violence is kind of neat especially the Wood of Suicides but ultimately short and bland. The biggest offender is next with Fraud. It sends you through the Malebolges which represent all the despised forms of Fraud like wizards and evil Popes, but really its just the same room over and over with a arena style challenge that really doesn't related to the supposed theme of the level. Finally its Treachery, the cold final floor of Hell. Other than the final Boss fight after it all there is to remember is the icy bridge you have to walk across slowly. Fighting Satan is interesting in that it takes a while, is actually pretty challenging for this game which up until now had been pretty easy, also he has a giant hairy cock that flops around the whole fight and is about the size of Dante's arm.
There's so much about this game that's a missed opportunity. EA made a bunch of stuff available for purchase like a bit of DLC, some costumes, and even in game currency if you are too lazy to earn it in game. Such an act on their part does little other than secure a place in Hell for EA's decision makers. But whatever. Gameplay wise the combat is tragically shallow and Dante's only weapon is the bone scythe. I suppose you could count the cross as a weapon too but its very limited, and the Spells you get are few and a bit weak. I did like how you had 2 trees to level up to earn new powers, buffs, and stats. Darksiders 2 had a similar one and I liked it there too. Also there's a pretty impressive number of trinkets to hunt down that give you neat little boosts and what not along with references to historical atrocities, and I live for that sort of thing, I love collecting crap in games. They aren't quite as neat as the rings in Zelda: Oracle of Ages/Seasons sadly and that's a blown chance. They could have had some change your appearance and other goofy crap like that. And before you tell me that that would ruin the serious subject matter of the game remember that one of the DLC costumes is a Disco get up (Disco Inferno, get it?)
At best Dante's Inferno is a mediocre game in pretty much all ways, gameplay, story, and presentation. But its like an underperforming student. I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed because I know they can do better. And I know that because of the Lust level. They took a pretty big risk by showing horrible things and sex organs in this game, also dead evil babies with knife hands that you can cleave in twain. The source material has vivid descriptions of all the levels of hell and there was really no good excuse for not at least matching it and exceeding it to really make players uncomfortable and horrified. That's why the Inferno is the most well known of the Divine Comedy, eternal and ironic torment is so much easier to wrap your head around than bliss. They were already taking a risk by making a centuries old story about a still practiced mythology and its still believed interpretation of Hell, but they just don't go to the same length as the real Dante Alighieri. Hell they even missed a great opportunity for Easter eggs by putting well known employees of EA in hidden spots in Greed.
In the end I still like the game to some degree, but I just wish it was more. It's worth playing as a case study. Analyze this game and study what went wrong and what could have been done differently and better.
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text: RNS Number : 5678A SABMiller PLC 04 August 2008 04 August 2008 SABMiller - Senior Management Changes SABMiller announces today that Johann Nel, Human Resources Director, will be retiring from the company in the coming months. As a result the following appointments are made, effective 1 October 2008. Tony van Kralingen is appointed Director of Human Resources and Supply Chain for the SABMiller Group. Tony is currently Managing Director and Chairman of SAB Ltd, with functional responsibility for group technical and sourcing. In addition to leading the Human Resources function and bringing greater executive focus to the strategically important technical and sourcing functions, in his new role Tony will focus on ensuring that the group maximises value through leveraging its global scale. Norman Adami, previously President and CEO SABMiller Americas, will return to SABMiller to assume the position of Managing Director and Chairman of SAB Ltd in South Africa. The personal circumstances that led to Norman's early retirement have now been resolved to the extent that he is able to resume a senior leadership role in South Africa. Commenting on the announcement, Graham Mackay, Chief Executive, said: 'We are fortunate in having a high calibre candidate like Tony to take up this challenging new position. Tony's career began in Human Resources and he has extensive experience of the discipline from his subsequent functional and line management roles. He leaves SAB Ltd well positioned to meet new competitor and growth challenges. 'I am delighted to welcome Norman back into the SABMiller leadership team. His experience in the USA and long standing knowledge of the South African market ensure that he is well placed to lead SAB Ltd in the face of challenging market circumstances. 'Johann Nel has made an exceptional contribution to SABMiller in the past six years and he leaves behind a strong Human Resource function that continues to serve as a core strategic business partner and competitive advantage for the SABMiller Group. 'I respect Johann's desire to retire and to return to South Africa as a personal choice and wish him and his wife Gina success and happiness in this new phase of their lives.' Ends Notes to Editors Tony van Kralingen (50) was appointed Managing Director, SAB Ltd in 2003. He is also responsible for the Global Technical function and Chairman of the Global Sourcing Council. He joined SAB Ltd in 1982 and has held a number of senior positions in the group. These include Managing Director, Plze*sk* Prazdroj A.S., Marketing Director, SAB Ltd and Operations Director (Northern Region), SAB Ltd. Norman Adami (53) joined SAB Ltd in 1979 and has held a number of senior positions in the group. These include Regional Director, Operations Director, Managing Director and Chairman, SAB Ltd, and President and Chief Executive Officer, Miller Brewing Company. In 2006 he was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer, SABMiller Americas. Norman retired from full service with the Company on 30 November 2007 About SABMiller plc SABMiller plc is one of the world's largest brewers with brewing interests and distribution agreements across six continents. The group's wide portfolio of brands includes premium international beers such as Grolsch, Miller Genuine Draft, Peroni Nastro Azzurro and Pilsner Urquell, as well as market-leading local brands such as Aguila, Castle, Miller Lite, Snow and Tyskie. SABMiller is also one of the largest bottlers of Coca-Cola products in the world. In the year ended 31 March 2008, the group reported US$3,639 million in adjusted pre-tax profit and revenue of US$21,410 million. SABMiller plc is listed on the London and Johannesburg stock exchanges. 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The wondrously self-effacing Richard Briers takes a full 30 minutes to catch his breath after climbing the short flight of steps to Prunella Scales's terrace home to join her for this interview — and a further half-an-hour to lob his hand grenade of a confession into the conversation.
'I've got emphysema, you see, so I'm b*****d.' This is said with such cheeriness it takes a moment for the penny to drop: this is a very serious lung disease.
'I haven't even got the strength to garden any more,' he says, with a wry grin that's so familiar from his days as the ebullient Tom Good in the BBC comedy classic The Good Life you can't help but feel for him.
'Oh darling,' Prunella reaches for his hand.
'Five hundred thousand cigarettes, darling — that's the trouble,' he says.
'It's totally my fault. So, I get very breathless, which is a pain in the backside. Trying to get upstairs, oh God, it's ridiculous. Of course, when you're bloody nearly 80 it's depressing because you've had it anyway.'
Richard is, in fact, 79 and from a generation that prefers not to make a fuss. He's been bringing laughter into our lives for more than half a century in a host of TV classic comedies. Has his Good Life co-star Felicity Kendal been supportive during his illness?
'Not much,' he says. 'She seems to have disappeared in a strange way. She's an extraordinary girl. I don't really know who she is. Never did. She was always an attractive girl and she's still pretty young, but you know she's very strange. Enchanting, but very strange.
'She became enamoured with [playwright Tom] Stoppard. They were very much in love and I think she'd had enough of The Good Life. She quite liked the idea of very good acting — clever acting rather than just sitcom. Now she's got this very nice American chap who's been with her many years.
'I got a very nice card from her, but we've never really…'
Been friends? 'No, it's ridiculous. Strange.' Which it is given that they are one of the best-loved telly couples in British comedy.
It turns out, though, that Richard never really had much time for his on-screen character Tom Good either.
'I thought he was terribly selfish. It was about him all the time and he was terrible with the wife,' he says.
'There were no clothes for her, no babies — nothing at all. He was just sort of: "This is my patch." I never particularly liked him at all. There are very few people I liked that I played. Most of them were irritating people.'
We're in Prunella's much-loved family home in South-West London to talk about the Sixties sitcom Marriage Lines in which they starred as newlyweds George and Kate Starling. The hugely popular comedy, which propelled both of their careers, is being released on DVD and remains enduringly funny.
It survives the test of time with a natural easiness that knocks many of today's crass comedies into a cocked hat — an easiness that's part of their friendship today.
But Richard's revelation about his horrible illness has diverted us.
'Yes,' he tuts. 'The ciggies got me. I stopped ten years ago, but too late. If you do it in your 30s, you're OK, but after 30 it gets you. I was diagnosed five years ago and didn't think it would go quite as badly as it has. It's a b****r, but there it is. I used to love smoking.'
Prunella pats his arm. 'Oh, I never really liked the actual thing,' she says. 'I don't think I inhaled when I smoked tobacco because if someone gives me a joint I have to work at it.'
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TEHRAN, Iran — In a sign of endurance for Iran's protest movement, demonstrators clashed with police Friday as one of the nation's most powerful clerics challenged the supreme leader during Muslim prayers, saying the country was in crisis in the wake of a disputed election.
The turnout of tens of thousands of worshipers for former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's sermon at Tehran University and the battles with police outside represented the biggest opposition show of strength in weeks. Protesters faced fierce government suppression and hundreds were arrested following the June 12 presidential election.
Outside the university, protests grew from several hundred people before the sermon to thousands afterward as worshipers joined in, chanting "death to the dictator," a reference to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Protesters were confronted by riot police and a menacing line of pro-government Basiji militiamen on motorcycles, who charged with batons. Dozens were arrested and taken away in trucks, witnesses said.
The sometimes tearful sermon by Rafsanjani could be a significant boost to the movement's staying power. It was an open challenge to the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, aired live on nationwide radio from one of the country's most potent political stages.
Worshipers chanted "azadi, azadi," Persian for "freedom," during Rafsanjani's sermon, his first since the election. Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi sat among the worshipers.
Rafsanjani denounced the government crackdown on protests and called for the release of the hundreds detained.
He reprimanded the clerical leadership for not listening to people's complaints over the election, which was declared a victory for Ahmadinejad despite opposition accusations of fraud.
Rafsanjani avoided directly mentioning Khamenei or outright calling the vote fraudulent. He couched his sermon in calls for unity in support of Iran's Islamic Republic.
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Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Psychol Sci 19:268-75. 2008..Providing an external attribution for the target person's anger eliminated the gender bias. Theoretical implications and practical applications are discussed...
- The correlates and consequences of newspaper reports of research on sex differencesVictoria Brescoll
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Psychol Sci 15:515-20. 2004..Together, these studies show that political ideology influences how the popular press reports research findings and that such reporting in turn affects readers' beliefs and attitudes...
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Milbank Q 87:7-47. 2009..This article identifies a unique role of metaphor-based beliefs, as distinct from conventional political attitudes, in explaining support for obesity policies...
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PBS provided this preview: "The son of sharecroppers, Lewis grew up in rural isolation, seemingly destined for a bleak future in the Jim Crow South. But Lewis took a different path, rising from Alabama's Black Belt to the corridors of power on Capitol Hill, his humble origins forever linking him to those whose voices often go unheard."
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry today issued the following statement on the bombing outside a courthouse in New Delhi:
"Today's bombing in India and the tragic loss of life are graphic reminders that al-Qaeda and similar groups remain committed to murder, terror and attacking freedom across the globe. America must remain vigilant, and work to reinvigorate our economy so that we can remain militarily strong and uphold effective foreign policy. We mourn with the people of New Delhi, especially the families of those killed and injured, and to our friends and allies in India."
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The Brewers announced some more non-roster Spring Training invitees today, giving Caleb Gindl, Anderson De La Rosa, Logan Schafer, and Zelous Wheeler tickets to Maryvale.
None of the four are likely to make the roster out of Spring Training, but three of the four are at least interesting players — De La Rosa will probably just be a camp catcher to handle all the extra arms during the first couple weeks.
Gindl, Schafer, and Wheeler are all guys worth keeping an eye on, though, because after an offseason that saw a couple trades deplete the farm system, they might be some of the better prospects the team has left. Brew Crew Ball has a few notes on each of the four.
Gindl is a fan favorite among those who follow the minors closely — at just 5'9″, he has a career minor league line of .298/.375/.464. The little dude can hit, but there's still some question as to what position he'll end up playing. He's dabbled in centerfield, but I don't know if there is anyone out there that thinks he can stick there long-term.
I'm a bigger fan of Schafer, who was the team's minor league player of the year in 2009 but missed nearly the entire 2010 season with injuries. He was supposed to be in big league camp last season, but hurt his groin just days before the start of camp. When he was finally able to return, he broke his foot after just seven games with Brevard County. At 24 this year, a strong showing in major league camp could lead to a quick ascension in the system despite missing much of the last year.
Hey, it worked for Lorenzo Cain.
In 2008, Cain hit .279/.356/.448 across three levels (High A to Triple A). In 2009, he was only able to play in 60 games and struggled his way through a .218/.294/.330 year. Last year, he came back with a vengeance, hitting a combined .317/.402/.432 between Huntsville and Nashville…and you all know how that ended. By the end of the year, Cain was starting in the big leagues.
Will we see something similar with Schafer? It's far too soon to tell, but would it really be out of the question?


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Pros and Cons of Upconverting...???
For two days, I've looked through postings to understand better about different scan formats and upconverting. Yet I am still confused and not convinced whether upconverting is a good thing or not.
I understand that in most CRT TVs, 720p is unconverted to 1080i. If everyone does it, no problem... But I understand that there are some TVs that directly shows 480i (like Samsung), p in their native scan format and some others unconvert to 1080i (like Sanyo).
Simply put... is this a good thing or a bad thing? (other than OTA or Cable HD setting... in that case, 1080i rules)
Particular in question is DVD viewing. I believe it's in 480 format (i or p). When I saw my DVD's in Sanyo which upcoverts everything to 1080i, I was not satisfied with its quality. It looked like watching DVD on my computer LCD screen. Is it because its upconverting? Or would I get the same result even if the TV is capable of native 480 format?
Also if I want to watch my DVD in Sanyo at 1080i with the best quality, should I set my DVD to progressive scan or interlaced? It is capable of both.
How can anyone watch standard def?
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HD capable TV's have line doublers etc. to upconvert 480 signals. This is a good thing, usually resulting in a clearer, more solid looking picture than what can be had with only 480 lines.
If your DVDs do not look as good as they should, the first thing I would look at is the connection to the DVD player. While using only an RCA (yellow) jack to transfer picture, I've noticed very poor picture quality on some darn fine TV's. DEFINATELY use a quality set of component cables (red green blue) if not already doing so.
Progressive scanning from a DVD player only works over component/DVI inputs. Try running it both ways to see if there is a difference.
One other thing, is the DVD movie itself a 4:3 format? Is the Sanyo? Stretching/zooming can and does reduce picture quality. Also DVD players have a menu where you can tell it which TV you have, 16X9 or 4X3 This makes a differece as well.
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Hi Pastorsoh, you have every right to be confused, it's a confusing time. And you have a lot of people singing the praises of technologies they don't get, simply because that's the flavor of the month and that's the bandwagon of today.
I'll be brief (hopefully).
480p is an improvement over interlaced, but not much of one. And it is an improvement in concept, not necessarily in practice. 480p in practice depends on many factors. The equpment you're using being not the least of it.
So it's definitely not as big an improvement as videophiles and the spin doctors would have you to believe. It replaces the jaggies of the interlaced system, caused by the delay in building the picture during fast moving scenes. That's a good thing, a minor improvement, that it does by utilizing a 3-2 cadence [2-2 cadence is rarely used in material mastered for the states so I won't discuss it]to simulate the 24fps "look" of film in our 60hz NTSC system.
Simply put the 3-2 cadence is problematic, it's like a stutter step.. you're given images in this frame of time, and they alternate between 3 pictures in that time and 2 pictures in that time. Our brains understand cadence, we pick up on these dozens of flashes of light in the blink of an eye, that's how the illusion of television has worked so long.
And our brains catch when something hiccups. When something drops out of step. Such as in interlace, on occasion, on a good set (where you could see the detail), and in fast sequences can sometimes pickup on this stutter step, this place where half the picture is being drawn when the other half has already moved over. How annoying or prevalent this is, is debateable. It didn't happen all the time.
However the 3-2 cadence of a 480 progressive output is constant. So how many more chances does your brain have of catching that trick?
3-3 cadence, which would have required a little more math would have been a far cleaner way to output a progressive signal. I'm convinced that a lot of times they engineer crappy the first time, just so they can come out in a year and say "we have new players on the market that output the new 480pUltra signal which gives you a 3-3 cadence!"
Would it be too hard to do it right the first time?
Sorry had to vent. Went off topic a little, I'm back.
Okay so for today we have a bunch of TVs and a bunch of DVDs that will take an interlaced signal and produce the current 480p signal, in all it's 3-2 glory(infamy).
Bottom line, failings to the side, it produces a smoother picture to interlace, a preferable static picture. Whether this translates to a superior viewing experience is a matter of taste, and how well you see or don't see motion.
480i and 480p are the same resolution. The only difference is in how that exact same info, the illusion of motion is put on the screen. I think that gets lost in all this hyperbole, ideally both illusions should be nearly transparent to you. The optimum word there being ideally.
They are both the same old NTSC guts, that we have had since 1953.
Okay so now we are in the age of HDTV. And everyone has their HDTV big screen, that will do 480p, 720, and 1080. Unless you have a high definition source, then all you have is 480 DVDs to wow yourself with.
So how do you sell 1080 capable screens to people that have 480 source material. You tell them they can upconvert it to the HDTV quality of 1080.
I have to take a deep breath on this one, because it's worse than the bs surrounding 480p. At least there you do have a little improvement.
Here's the bottom line. I've worked on tvs, computers, etc. We're making great, great strides in technology and extrapolation of information, and creating AI systems of some use. All that said, right now, today, you are not going to make a silk purse out of a sows ear.
The source material, the information, en masse, of what exists in this film, is 480 lines of information. That's it. That's all any current DVD holds, 480 lines of useable information.You want to now add almost 600 lines of information, more info than is stored on that DVD, and then say your TV, or DVD, or Line Doubler is going to do this for you beautifully.
In a word no. It will put in 600 lines of info, but it does it by adding noise. Bottom line that's all upconverting as it exists today, in any system that you or I or any average joe can afford to get (or charge), will do for you. It will add noise to the picture to give you the number of lines you want.
Upscalers work by spacing out those 480 lines of info over a now gigantic canvas of 1080, and inbetween lines of real information, will fill it in with gradations/morphs of that information, as it gets to the next line.
It's in theory perhaps a commendable idea (I have my doubts) but in practice, it's just noise. When people "ohh" and "ahh" about a 480 pic scaled to 1080, I say they must be legally blind.
For proof you have to look no further than your computer screen/ A pic formatted for one resolution, blown up to a higher resolution, looks like absolute garbage. Again todays scalers and line doublers do an admirable job, so the picture does not look horrible, it just doesn't look better.
I've looked at quite a few screens, testing a samsung 3064w as I type, and what I noticed Pastorsoh is the same thing you did, the picture looks worse scaled to 1080. It looks best in its native format of 480. And this makes sense people, you can not extrapolate 600 lines of info, and hope to get superior quality. All you can hope to do with the best scaler is fill that space on your big screen-thousand line TV, with a blown up pic that does not look... so obviously degraded.
If you have a HD-TV and want an impressive picture, that takes advantage of it, you need impressive high definition source material.
480 dvd, will always be a 480 dvd. And you know what, there's nothing wrong with that. It's a pretty darn good picture, watch it in its native resolution... and you'll see that. You want to watch something in 1080 subscribe to HD-TV programing, or wait around for HD-TV discs, just don't buy into the hype.
And the whole thing with resolution now being the holy grail of picture quality. Resolution is about real estate, screen real estate. I'm typing this at 800 by 600, even though my computer supports much higher resolution. Why? Because resolution relates to realestate, not picture quality. Quality is determined by the composition of the picture. An 800 by 600 photograph or picture, looks perfect on a 800 by 600 screen, but a little underwhelming on a 1280 by 1096 screen. Only great reason for higher resolutions is for 1/ realestate so you can multi-task between multiple applications or 2/Detailed work such as cad programs where you're working on detailed compisitions of hundreds and hundreds of lines.
Bringing that real estate dertminator into the area of home electronics, as some kind of determination of picture quality is again more slight of hand. We're pushing bigger resolutions because the manufactures want to sell bigger TVs. 480 may be a few too few lines for an ideal system, to paint a picture with, which is what a TV is for.
I think just as in the computer world, for straight viewing (not muti-tasking) 800 by 600 or what they call 720p is the spot where viewing is at its best. At 1080 you have a lot of realestate, that hits that point of diminishing returns. Why not 20 thousand lines, why not 50000 lines.
We have to remember, it's the info on each of those lines, and how well, quickly, brilliantly those lines are recreated that is the holy grail, that defines true definition. Better a few hundred masterly paint strokes, than thousands of geometric lines.
Okay, here endeth the "quick" comment. With this advice: avoid a monitor/tv that does not accept a native 720 signal, or forces you to upconvert it (Such as the samsung 3064). The 720 will be the sweet spot for HDTV broad casting, and for HD DVDs. Also avoid a monitor/tv that does not support dvi connection from a PC, or does not allow progressive processing via its component or non-dvi ports.
In short avoid the samsung 3064. Actually I'm being very hard on it. It is a good price point, good picture, dvi connection, etc. And very few monitors/tvs remain that accept DVI from a computer. But having company in its failings, does not make it any less of a failure. A capable looking monitor, crippled by too much hdcp protection/engineering. Same with its DVD player, the 841. Anyone who can recommend a HDTV that succeeds where the samsung fails, please send a reply.
Wow, that was a long posting. Sorry about that. If you actually read all this, I admire and appreciate your time and patience.
Well hope that was helpfull.
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Thanks! What if then?
Checkhere! Thank you very much for your thorough explanation. I actually read through the entire post. ^_^
Regaring your recommendation, I have a few questions/comments.
The problem with recommending native 720p monitor is that there aren't many. Almost all CRT based TVs upscale 720p to 1080i. There are few in $2000 range for 30".
I guess the question is whether the price justifies some ommition of features. For example, Samsung 3064 and 3075/1 support native 480i/p and 1080i. 70p is unconverted. 3075 with built-in HDTV receiver is about $900 when on sale. On the other hand, Sanyo HT30744 from Walmart is $650. (Sony one's $1000 withouth built-in tuner) It's $250 cheaper with almost identical inputs and features exept native 480i/p support. All the formats are upconverted to 1080i. As you said and I noticed, the quality of DVDs are not as great as it should be but for $250 cheaper price... I am debating whether I should stay with Sanyo. (I just bought it a few days ago and thought about returning it for Samsung or Sony.) Of course, it's not an easy task to haul 130 lbs TV back to Walmart. (Sanyo has Picture and Picture feature that lets you watch digital content and analog content side-by-side)
For sure in a few years, I will want to get a new, better TV with features that are not just available now. Then why don't I save $250 for that one feature? HDTV contents will look the same. ... What do you think about my argument? Of course, if I have $5000 for LCD, I wouldn't even bother to research this but I don't. ^_^
Regarding DVI feature... I think Samsung has DVI where as Sony and Sanyo has something called HDMI. I guess HDMI is the later technology. What do you think? Will HDMI dominate DVI soon? Or vice versa?
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Regarding DVI
DVI is a carry-over from computer world to Home Theater (HT)
Y,Pb,Pr cable is analog - DVI is digital
HDMI is the newest of all and is the same as DVI (digital bandwidth)
with one exception ,
HDMI also carries Audio signal...
So HDMI is "the new standard" on its way IN (DVI on its way out)
HDMI (looks almost like USB) is the do-it-all digital cable (audio/video)
if you notice most tv's that have HDMI inputs on back,
also have an Audio Fiber Optic output too...
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How can anyone watch standard def?
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ok i promise my post will be short and easy to understand. Interlaced, half of the information on the screen at one time. Porgressive, double the information at one time, whats the difference? Depending on the dvd your watching it could be great.For example, All the starwars movies look great, those are old movies yet the transfer was done be a company that wants them to look great. too bad all transfers arent done to that standard. Remember the old rule garbage in garbage out, hopeful Hd dvd will help solve this isssue. As far as HDMI goes,Its an uncompressed signal bigger pipe more info,dvi is less information still digital but compressed. Hope this helps.
What is HD?
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Hey you're welcome.
I agree, taking back a large TV is not a recommended past time.
If you're happy with the Sanyo, I say stick with it. Especially if you just see it as an interim TV anyhow.
However if the quality bugs you, then definitely take it back.
As far as HDMI and DVI, it's not about compressed and uncompressed. They will both submit the same digital source, with the addition of audio and control signals on the HDMI port. And there's the rub.
It is designed to be the successor to DVI but not in a good way. It's designed to work hand in hand with HDCP. And HDCP is not a good thing people. There should be a happy medium between defeating piracy and creating useable, functional products. HDCP and HDMI isn't it. It's control to really orwellian levels over the equipment and data in your very home. It's idiotic. HDCP/HDMI is a crippled product, and this will become increasingly evident. But it is a product being forced on us.
But if people refuse to buy HDMI/HDCP devices, similar to the consumer boycott of circuit city's short lived Divx (disposble) DVDs, then they'll be forced to abandon it.
Otherwise the mad media minded machine will progressively tighten the reigns. A few years ago the concept of HDCP working in America would have been unthinkable, now here we are. And what's next? with control signals, spyware, hdcp in every product in your home, it's mind boggling the amount of profit they can begin squeezing out of you. DVDs that will not play, will only play once, old stero equipment/computer equipment made obsolete, just the tip of the iceberg.
Awww don't get me started. Where's my blood pressure medicine? Gosh Darn it ! The lid is encrypted! DOH!
But seriously, the FCC which should be protecting the American consumer from such heavy handed market manipulation, and monopoly of the airwaves... is spearheading it. Mandating digital conversion, the selling off of the American airwaves to the highest bidder(corporation) is unthinkable!
It really is a digital landgrab, imminent domain of the most hostile kind. It really is tantamount to the governenment going into Florida and saying to all the residents "this state just isn't 21st century enough, we have a new hi-tech state we're going to move you to. Of course in that state, there'll be a few adjustments, you'll have to pay to drive on the streets, and you'll have to pay to leave your house, and you'll have to pay to enter your house, but boy will the sun be brighter, and weather seem nicer... as long as you pay for the best definition view.
And in the meantime we're going to sell off your nasty old state, with houses you built, and playgrounds, and memories, we're going to sell off your entire state to the highest bidder(not paying you the people, anything)... and being the nice FCC type government we are, we're going to use the money we make, to do this in another state, and help subsidize the builders of your new hi-tech state! God bless America... and pay me for the air you breathe!"
It's funny, huh. But not very, it's too close to the truth to be very amusing.
The move is on. Slow it down.
Support small film/movie companies, independent studios that don't buy into HDCP.
Lobby the FCC via your local representative, ask them what you're going to get for your airwaves. Lobby against the taking of your media platform. Think TV news is bad now, you haven't seen bad.
Don't buy HDCP products. If people were more aware of how obtrusive these devices are, and left them on the shelf, or returned them, then you're speaking the only language business understands. Reduced profits, and dollars and cents. Hold onto that old movie collection, limit what crippleware you buy and rent. Make renting circles, where one of you watch the flick, and pass it out to everyone in the circle to view. Or movie nights. Why do you and all your friends need HDCP home theater systems? four of you kill your TV, and hang out with the 5th for that must see Football game or Boxing match.
Cost them.
them... the media machine, conglomerate of MPAA, RIAA, Sony, Phillips, Time Warner, Samsung, Etc...
Cut their profits
Cut their profits
Cut their profits,
make their greed... their disrespect for the consumer... cost them.
Okay, I'm off the soapbox. Really.
I'm going to hack the lid on my high blood pressure HDMI/HDCP virtual medicine now.
Fair use... RIP. What will be the next right... to go?
How can anyone watch standard def?
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I understand what your saying, hey dont get me wrong i have a huge bin full of interconnects and monster cords ill never use again, but i like the fact that its always improving. If you dont like the changes the industry makes choice not to buy, but for those home theater junkies that are always looking to try new things and injoy the hobbie i dont think theres anything wrong with always looking to improve your system. To each his own HAVE FUN ITS ONLY A HOBBIE
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