Perhaps you've recently been diagnosed with a brain injury. Whether you have sustained a concussion in a car accident, a blow to the head, or some other type of traumatic injury, you have found yourself getting treatment.
Yet, despite the care your doctors have offered, you find you're losing focus at work, suffering from a lack of energy, and exhausted and sleep deprived. You know you have a brain injury, but suspect there may be something else wrong – is a part of the picture still obscured?
It is very likely you are suffering not simply from a brain injury, but also an injury to your pituitary gland, an injury known as hypopituitarism. The pituitary gland is a small gland that sits in a bony hollow at the base of the skull, underneath the brain at the end of the hypothalamus, which controls the activity of the gland.
Think of the pituitary gland as the "master" of the brain – the hormones it produces control and regulate a multitude of bodily functions. It can secrete hormones that affect other cells directly, or secrete hormones that impact other glands such as the adrenal or thyroid glands. The pituitary gland plays a vital role in balancing out your bodies systems, and an injury to the pituitary can affect the body in a multitude of ways.
How is the Pituitary Gland Damaged When Your Brain Is Injured?
Think of the pituitary gland as a cherry, and the hypothalamus as the stem. When you sustain a traumatic brain injury, such as a whiplash type injury where your head and neck can be violently jerked back and forth, the pituitary and hypothalamus are subject to stress in the same manner the stem and the cherry would be. If that connection with the hypothalamus is frayed, the resulting pituitary gland damage can alter the regulation and distribution of hormones to the rest of the body. This is why it is important to understand the difference between general traumatic brain injury symptoms and hypopituitarism symptoms.
It should come as no surprise that traumatic brain injuries are frequently under diagnosed in emergency room settings and underreported in general. On top of this, research has shown that between 30-50% of people suffering from a traumatic brain injury also suffer from a pituitary injury.
While not all brain injuries necessarily result in pituitary damage, statistics indicate there is a significant and drastic percentage of patients who need medical attention they are simply not receiving.
Only recently have medical professionals started to look at patient's needs systematically to determine how a brain and pituitary injury can be caused by the same trauma, how their symptoms can interact and, most importantly, how treating one can relieve the symptoms of another.
For the last thirty years or so, endocrinologists have suspected that traumatic brain injuries were linked to pituitary damage. However, it is only over the last 12-15 years that endocrinologists and neurologists have begun to work together to combat these interconnected systems. By treating these symptoms as a result of a potential hormonal deficiency or imbalance, patients are finally getting care that allows them to return to their pre-injury selves.
Doctors and scientists continue to explore the link between the pituitary gland and brain injury, and are changing the way traumatic brain injury cases are diagnosed, analyzed, and treated. Studies of children who suffer TBI suggest they should be subject to a pituitary screening within six months to determine if hormone therapy is needed. The United States Department of Defense has begun exploring the link between brain and pituitary damage in veterans, to determine if hormone replacement may help them. The NFL has even noted the high level of pituitary damage to those players suffering from traumatic brain injuries.
Learn more about how brain damage became linked to pituitary gland injuries and diagnosing hypopituitarism.
Do You Have a Pituitary Injury?
If you believe that you have a pituitary injury, or have been diagnosed with a brain injury but are still suffering from the hypopituitary symptoms listed above, consult your doctor. It may be necessary for you to undergo a series of tests to determine if your body is secreting and regulating hormones in the manner it should.
If you do have a pituitary gland injury, it may require the marshaling of resources and medical care from a variety of health care professionals who treat your injury systematically in order to get the required care. Consider consulting a personal injury attorney who is comfortable with and keeps abreast of the latest advances in how these injuries are treated, and who can help you in obtaining the care you need to get you back to feeling like yourself.


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"...This Sad Havoc"
East London, the 1890's. Whitechapel is still scarred by Jack the Ripper's terrors, and the men who police her streets are haunted, too. The late Victorian, a time and place of huge instabilities, that masquerades as a somehow immutable and granite-solid social and political norm, with its seething discontents just barely contained.
Ripper Street. A period series that's run five seasons. You'd think this ground had been pretty well ploughed and harvested by now, but not so. Sharp writing, animated characters, a terrific cast, and solid production values. This is the kind of thing the BBC does incredibly well when they bring their A-game. Downton Abbey as cop shop.
Matthew Macfadyen as Reid
Inspector Edmund Reid, commander of H Division, holds down the center, but Reid is nowhere near as foursquare as he first appears. His sergeant, Bennet Drake, later himself promoted to inspector, is likewise morally compromised. And the American surgeon, Homer Jackson, a former Pinkerton's man, may well be a fugitive living under another name. The whorehouse madam, Long Susan Hart, of suspect origins, also in flight. Lastly, the Yard's eminence grise, Chief Inspector Abberline, at one time lead detective on the Ripper case, who never caught his man.
Jerome Flynn as Drake
It's a charged dynamic, and it keeps shifting. The orbits erratic, the gravitational influences uncertain, as each major player moves their own boundaries. Drake, for example, is a bare-knuckles guy, what the Irish call a hard boy, but it's his softness that leads him astray. Reid is a self-righteous bastard, and trips on skirts because he sets the bar so high. (He carries the enormous guilt of blaming himself for his daughter's death.) All of this, and more, the scenery not a backdrop, but an ecosystem, a laboratory, a Petri dish that cultures infection. The medium is a character. Social position is destiny, capital is corrupt, brute strength is master.
Adam Rothenberg as Jackson
This is noir well before the term gained currency, and the interior darkness a dread that isn't named. The broken men who 'copper' these sooty tenements and narrow cobbles are honorable if not always honest - least of all with themselves - but they fear the deadening of their own hearts. The 'abyss,' Reid calls it. "Is it ourselves?" he wonders to Sgt. Drake, and Drake has no ready answer.
MyAnna Buring as Susan Hart
Bennet Drake, over time, comes to seem the most conflicted of the characters. Not that all of them don't have their individual weaknesses and ambiguities, but at first glance, Drake presents the fewest doubts and afflictions. He's muscle. He doesn't philosophize. Reid is supposed to be the brains. More often than not, though, it's Drake who shows the greater wisdom, and even restraint. They have a careful balance. Reid doesn't always know when to hold his tongue. Drake speaks less, and reveals more.
Clive Russell as Abberline
A mystery surrounds the two Americans, the surgeon Jackson and the businesswoman Susan Hart, but what they seek in London is reinvention. This might be counterintuitive, in a place so stratified by class, but in fact it gives them an advantage, because they can choose to erase the past. It's no disqualification, for an American. After all, they arrived from the New World. Others, however, are trapped. Whitechapel is both opportunity and quicksand, each of them a lure. There are masks, of convenience, of propriety, there is nakedness, of both flesh and ambition. There are predators and victims. The faint of heart don't prosper. "I would spare you," Bennet Drake tells the whore Rose, "from this sad havoc." But the knight of deliverance is no proof against calamity.
Ripper Street isn't allegory. It's flesh and blood, and plenty of it - full frontal gore, by and large - vivid and convincing. And this visible despair is always grounded in the iron courtesies and awkward frictions of class, a comedy of manners, you might say. Black comedy, and bad manners. An overcast of melancholy. A pinch of solitude. And the historical ironies, thrown into relief. It's an age of wonders, of industry and invention, the coming of a new century, but the dislocations of that new century are unlike anything we could have imagined beforehand. From this remove, Ripper Street foreshadows our loss, the end of innocence.
Posted by David Edgerley Gates at 00:00
Labels: BBC, British, crime series, David Edgerley Gates, Jack the Ripper, Victorian England, Whitechapel
janice law 22 November, 2017 08:25
Sounds interesting. Makes me wonder what literature would have done without the gaslight era- it remains literary gold.
Art Taylor 22 November, 2017 09:19
I've not seen this show, but definitely adding it to my to-watch list now! Thanks for the recommendation.
Elizabeth 22 November, 2017 13:06
Cool! I see it's on Netflix, 5 seasons.
Leigh Lundin 22 November, 2017 23:17
Intriguing review of a series I was unaware of and, David, damn fine writing yourself.
Eve Fisher 23 November, 2017 08:27
I'll check it out!
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Priyanca Radhakrishnan
Although this year's Indian Newslink Lecture (held on Monday, July 29, 2019) was the Ninth of its kind, the series was formerly known as the Sir Anand Satyanand Lecture.
The event this year was the first of the rebranded lecture series and therefore, the first one where the Welcome Address was not delivered by Sir Anand.
So while it was a privilege – it was also somewhat daunting.
Sir Anand Satyanand
I felt fitting at this point to acknowledge that the man who lent his name for so many years to this Lecture series. Particularly, as in his Welcome Address at the Inaugural Lecture in 2011 he began by quoting Oscar Wilde who famously said "There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
To say that the career of Sir Anand is an illustrious one is an understatement.
A Barrister and Solicitor of the High court, Judge, two terms as an Ombudsman, our first Governor-General of Indian origin.
In all these roles, we trust that those who hold them act in a manner that is honest, transparent, accountable and steeped in integrity; all the values that Sir Anand has and continues to embody.
Good Governance everywhere
It was therefore appropriate that a Lecture series about Good Governance bore his name for all these years.
Good Governance matters at every level; in the NGO sector, the private sector, public service and in local and central government.
In all spheres, it is important to have trust in your institutions. And you cannot have that trust without attributes like integrity, transparency and accountability.
They used to say that lawyers and politicians are the least-trusted professions. And then a 2015 Survey in New Zealand indicated that trust in politicians had risen slightly.
We were no longer at that bottom of the least-trusted list, we were slightly ahead of journalists who occupied that least-coveted spot.
So we were in good company at the Lecture; an event organised by a journalist, featuring a whole cast of politicians as speakers!
On a more serious note, we are facing a rising tide of public suspicion. We often get people who say they're not going to bother to vote because politicians are all the same and…why does it matter anyway?
It matters because the decisions we make in Parliament and in (City) Councils, have the power to make life better or worse. The choices we have and the decisions we make affect everyone. And so, if you are alive, you have a stake in the decisions and the political process.
Transparency matters
And we have one of the most transparent, accessible processes – anyone in New Zealand can have their voice heard on a Bill that is being considered by a Select Committee and all that information is on the New Zealand Parliament website and often on their social media sites as well. Get involved, have your say. You also have the opportunity to vote in the upcoming Local Government Elections.
A Section of the audience at the Ninth Annual Indian Newslink Lecture (July 29, 2019)
Pictures by Narendra Bedekar (Creative Eye Photographics)
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Globally, we are seeing a rising tide of fear. The fear that underpins conversations around migration and fuels the "Them and us" narrative. Fear of increasing insecurity – groups of people who feel they no longer enjoy the economic security they once did. That the disparity is growing and they're being left behind.
We have seen this kind of fear manifest in Brexit, rising protectionism and mistrust of the rule of law.
Good Governance matters because without it, people lose trust and faith in those who are meant to look out for their interests.
Good Governance matters because without it we politicians cannot take our communities with us.
Good governance matters because without it, and the attributes that underpin it, we cannot contribute to long-term change on issues that do not fit neatly in box. The big issues like climate change and poverty.
And so, it is chicken-and-egg situation. We need Good Government to build the trust that allows us to make the changes that benefit the nation.
Now that I had suitably confused everyone (!), I left it to Finance Minister Grant Robertson, the Guest Speaker, to clarify how this government is tackling that growing divide and delivering long-term change on the big issues that are facing us.
Priyanca Radhakrishnan is a Member of Parliament on Labour List and Parliamentary Private Secretary to Ethnic Communities Minister. The above was her Opening Address at the Ninth Annual Indian Newslink Lecture held on Monday, July 29, 2019 at Pullman Hotel, edited to suit the print and web editions.
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The governor of Illinois wanted to sell Obama's Senate seat so bad he couldn't help but talk up it's worth to potential buyers. "It's fucking golden... and I'm not going to give it up for fucking nothing," he declared.
His best efforts have since erupted in scandal, owing namely to how "fucking golden" the governorship of Illinois is to aspiring governors and the political parties of aspiring governors.
His crime is severalfold: One, he exposed politicians as corrupt and self-serving. Two, he antagonized other powerful groups by openly flouting agreed-upon protocols when "selling" something of political value: he got caught. Three, his failures may cast a negative light on others who are "in it" solely "for the money."
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Burnley have appointed ex-Watford boss Sean Dyche as their new manager on a two-and-a-half-year contract.
Dyche, who was sacked by Watford in July, takes over with the Clarets lying 14th in the Championship and five points away from a play-off position.
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A few days ago, we wrote about Sony's Open Device Program. The interview that followed after the talk focused on the realization that the devices that we possess are much more powerful than what we normally give them credit for.
Phones launched 3 to 4 years down the line are still powerful enough to be repurposed for other functionality, and their components can do things unrelated to smartphones. Even if a 2 year old device remains fully functional, we often tend to look for an upgrade simply because we crave something better.
But there's also a factor that we often overlook, which is that of planned obsolescence. These days, manufacturers and other stakeholders create phones which have a shorter working life cycle than what the hardware is actually capable of. In the USA, the assumed life cycle of a device is 2 years, a figure which perhaps evolved from the two-year contract system which carriers use to lock in millions of customers into a purchasing habit. Devices do not suddenly become unusable after 2 years, but most are replaced nonetheless, for a "better" device, under the illusion of a cheaper phone through contract subsidies. This "2-year" figure has made its way on to the rest of the world, and is now considered a ballpark figure when talking about device life. Even Google promises atleast 2 years of software updates (and 3 years of security updates) for its new Nexus devices.
But are devices really only good for 2 years? Or is this figure of 2 years a tactic by corporates to force "planned obsolescence" down onto otherwise perfectly fine devices? How long can one actually use their device with full functionality? We take a look on this perspective with on of the many mid-tier devices that is past its intended functional years, the Samsung Galaxy Grand (Duos).
Released back in December 2012, the Galaxy Grand Duos built up on the design language of the Galaxy S3 (which was released in May 2012). Featuring a bigger screen and a larger body from the S3, the Grand Duos was the first of what would eventually become a staple mid-ranger in Samsung's device portfolio. Samsung tried to imprint an image of a large-screened device with dual sim functionality and a lot of carry-over Touchwiz "features" – or bloat, as many like to call it – from Samsung's top smartphones onto a mid-range package. The device featured a Broadcom BCM 28155 SoC with two Cortex A9 cores clocked at 1.2 GHz, 1GB of RAM (804 MB actual) and 8GB of internal storage. One can still find similarly specced devices in the low price point, so the specs still hold a bit of relevance in this age of octa cores and 4GB of RAM.
The Galaxy Grand Duos built up on the Galaxy S3 design language.
However, the functionality of this device is a prime example of planned obsolescence. The device was launched with Android 4.1.2 and was updated to Android 4.2.2, after which, it simply received no more love from Samsung.
In typical fashion, Samsung continued to push forth successors upon successors in rather quick succession within the Grand lineup, with variants like Galaxy Grand Neo, Grand Neo Plus, Grand Prime, Grand 2; ensuring that none of the devices had the market solely to themselves (unlike the flagships) in order to gain a good level of popularity within its target price segment.
To get the Galaxy Grand experience almost 3 years down the line, I borrowed the device from a relative and attempted to use the phone as a daily driver for a few days. After data wiping, my attempts at smoothly using Touchwiz on Android 4.2.2 were limited only till the completion of the setup process. Once the phone setup was completed, I was greeted with one of the reasons that drove me away from Samsung's OS in the first place: the unusual amount of bloat. For every Google App that existed on the device, there was bound to be a Samsung counterpart, running invincibly in the background.
A few minutes into using the device, the sluggishness of Touchwiz started showing its ugly face, with janky scrolling and very long cold boot times for apps. Getting more than two apps running on in the background was a feat that I could not claim to have achieved in my hours of usage. After restoring my usual setup, consisting of Hangouts, Gmail, Slack, Whatsapp and a few other passive apps, the phone became a nightmare to use. Even simple actions like opening the keyboard for an IM, or attempting to use the browser link from an app took too long to initiate and complete. Steps and clicks started taking upwards of 8 seconds per action to complete, at which point I as a user was frustrated enough to do a battery pull and start all over again, only to regret the decision because boot times were also so painstakingly long. Very very surprisingly, RAM usage under these laggy circumstances painted a picture of everything being alright as more than half the system RAM was lying free and ready to be used for any apps that needed it. On the other hand, apps desperately needed that RAM, but could not use it. This could be a bug that I stumbled upon, but frankly, at this point of the product life cycle, no OEM would care.
What's the point of multi-window with such large resources?
The phone in its Touchwiz form did have a few redeeming qualities. For one, the Multi Window implementation certainly feels handy on a larger screen. But Samsung's insistence on keeping the screen density at 240 unnecessarily inflates all image and other drawable assets in apps, effectively rendering a mid-sized screen experience despite the decently sized display.
Coming from a speed-oriented setup on the OnePlus One, the difference in performance was very noticeable to me to the extent that it hindered my usage of the phone, along with my productivity and day-cycle. It was only understandable that any other consumer would get frustrated with the performance of the device, and since 3 years had passed from the release of the device (and most likely, 2 years had passed from the date of purchase), they wouldn't blame the device itself but its age, not knowing the true potential of the hardware in their hands. The software would take the blame, as it would be classed as being on an old and slow version of Android (which would be true to an extent). However, most of the blame should rightfully fall on the OEM's and their apathy to rightfully update the devices for its promised life. Touchwiz being Touchwiz, it ages very poorly, becoming the prime reason for sluggishness and the difficulty in use of this particular device.
To validate the point that the hardware is decently capable despite its age and it is the software that is to be blamed, I installed CM12.1 on the Galaxy Grand Duos. Being a Broadcom SoC instead of Exynos, development for this device was healthy enough to land us a stable build of Android 5.1 Lollipop, with even an experimental AOSP 6.0 build available. The procedure to install the ROM is fairly straightforward: install a recovery via Odin, and flash a ROM. I did get stuck on installing the recovery as the stock Samsung recovery would refuse to let the custom recovery boot. This did take a bit of Google-fu to solve, and as such, would be frustrating for a normal member.
Only one solution for such Touchwiz: Custom ROMs to the rescue!
Once set up and on the ROM, the experience was in contrast to the one on Touchwiz on Android 4.2.2. App cold boot times were lower by a second or three at least, with stutters and lag gone down to a noticeable extent. Memory handling improved, and so did multitasking. Don't get me wrong, the phone did not magically become a flagship killer of 2016 by simply swapping out the software. However, the difference in performance was present to the extent that it would be difficult to believe it was the same hardware working under the hood. Benchmarks seemed to agree with this, albeit they do not paint the full picture on the perceived performance and the fluidity of the user experience.
Geekbench gave a score of 338/565 for single/multi-core performance on Touchwiz based on Android 4.2.2, while on CM12.1, the scores went up to 350/668. Antutu performance was 12698 (overall score) on Touchwiz and 13761 on CM12.1. Basemark OS 2 saw an almost double jump in memory and web performance, albeit system slightly got lower performance.
Again, benchmarks do not paint the full picture as the difference in user experience was much more than what these abstract numbers denote. The ROM was indeed quite stable as I did not face any random reboots or situations which required a battery pull/forced reboot.
On top of actually being able to use the phone thanks to the custom ROM, the device was also made relevant for a lot of new features that newer versions of Android brought. This includes support for new languages, notification access for apps, immersive mode, Google Now, support for BLE devices, cloud print, device casting, Heads up notifications, Material Design (!)…the list is long and well worth the plunge. As a bonus, the device is also safer from a lot of security issues such as Stagefright, as frequently updated CyanogenMod builds tend to contain the latest in security patches.
We touched upon previously on how custom ROMs and other unofficial modifications made Lollipop a much more bearable experience. In this case, custom ROMs ended the agony of a harrowed consumer. They breathed in some more life into what would have been the end of good days for otherwise capable hardware. The phone is in good enough condition to support the needs of its actual consumer (not me) for a few more months. Granted, sooner or later, the product will be obsolete. But planned obsoletion, in this case, forces the customer to look for a new device earlier than the end of the products real life cycle when in fact they would have been happy with a working device.
Not everyone actually needs to have the latest and greatest in hardware as we are past many of the peak points and currently on the plateau of hardware progression. Hardware released a year ago still fits well into current use case scenarios, and there's no real need for the masses to replace it if it still works. And to think that software created by hobbyists and enthusiasts outperforming the work of those that were paid to create that experience is a repeated accident would be foolish.
The designers know, think and plan ahead for obsoletion, and such repeated downgrades in performance after a few years seems like a conscious decision to increase the sale of the newest smartphone in the market.
All in all, planned obsoletion is one of the reasons why XDA exists. We know that the device can do so much more, and we bring together people that constantly seek to push the artificial boundaries set by parent corporates. This is why the Grand Duos even has a Marshmallow ROM available for testing. Works from the community like mods, tools, ROMs and kernels help you to continue loving your device past the honeymoon stage. These works are not everyone's cup of tea, but for those who can, this offers a way to maximize the value and service received from the product. Not everyone needs to buy a flagship every two years. And thanks to communities like XDA, they don't have to.
Do you still use an "older" device? What reasons are holding you back from upgrading? Do you use custom ROMs to make your phone usable? Let us know in the comments below!


Sometimes it takes events like the Scottish Referendum to make you realise that however ancient and permanent the old order appears, the status quo could suddenly change. It's no different in the world of wine: in fact, there's one anomaly that I've been increasingly aware of recently. South Africa has always been considered part of the New World, but I think the tipping point has been reached. It's time for us to move South Africa from New World to Old World.
Château Mouton-Rothschild could lobby the Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux to move from Second Growth to First, but there's no official body to petition in order to right this particular wrong. But if there were a referendum in the next few years, I'd be voting Yes to South Africa notionally joining the Old World, and I want you to join me.
His wines are a good example of the broader contemporary scene. Rather than pandering to visiting buyers' assessments of what will sell, winemakers are increasingly searching out the best terroirs and working with the most appropriate varieties for the site to make the best wines possible. "I want to make wines with South African identity", says Seccombe, "I don't want to emulate another region." As winemakers look to the relative permanence of terroir rather than the fleeting whims of the market, more uniquely South African wines are the result.
Even the vineyards are starting to look more French than Australian. Keermont in Stellenbosch grow Syrah on stakes in their steeper vineyards like in Côte-Rotie. Swartland, however, looks more like Châteauneuf-du-Pape; 70% of Lammershoek's 70 hectare estate for example is dry-farmed bush vines. Even the Chardonnay. Irrigation is out, cooler site selection is in. They'll be harvesting in bonnets and clogs next.
The trend in the cellar is very much back-to-basics, minimising sulphur, reducing use of new oak and eschewing additives. I've never heard so many winemakers preaching the benefits of wild yeasts. Some winemakers such as Adi Badenhorst are even successfully experimenting with determinedly Old World oddities such as vin jaune and vermouth. And instead of bottling that archetypically New World creature, the varietal wine, many of the most exciting reds and whites are blends. Of course there are still plenty of well-established estates pumping out Bordeaux blends and punchy Pinotage. If you're a fan of polished, bright, fruit-forward varietal wines, there are still plenty to be found, but compared to the new school, they are beginning to look decidedly old-fashioned.
There is one side of the South African wine scene that is resolutely New World, and that is the feeling on the ground amongst the best producers. This pace of change, and the sense of excitement and experimentation feels more New World in energy, but the resulting wine styles are often more Old World in signature.
The funny thing about the Old World is that the countries it groups together have relatively little in common; each country has a strong identity of its own. And as time goes on, South Africa too is beginning to develop its own unique voice. For a country that has been making wine for over 350 years, this has been a long time coming. How much more practice does South Africa need before it can join its North African cousins that have always been considered Old World?
We're not used to things moving this fast in wine, so when they do, we need to make a fundamental shift in our world wine view to accommodate it. So next time you're in the wine shop looking for a middle-weight, food friendly, drinkable wine to go with dinner, don't just stick to France and Italy – consider South Africa. And when the forms come in the post, join me and Vote Yes.
Gorgeous blanc de blanc nose, fresh green apple, lemon juice and blossom. Some weight on the palate, keen acidity, good length and some biscuity flavour coming through. Very convincing bottle fermented fizz of great finesse and balance. Don't drink Prosecco, drink this. 94 points, good value.
Clear and defined melon, lemon and grapefruit alongside some marine/seashell aromas. Light, balanced and refreshing. Lovely mineral impression on the finish. A very drinkable, fresh, zesty chardonnay with subtle, seamlessly integrated oak. 92 points, fair value.
A blend of Chenin Blanc, Viognier and Clairette. Subtle pear nose with some honeysuckle and jasmine florality. Full in body, but subtle in fruit. Very much about texture; long, mineral, crystalline. 93 points, fair value.
Two thirds Semillon, one third Sauvignon Blanc. Silver coloured. Fresh grassy nose. Medium-bodied, lovely finesse and fruit expression. Good balance, just enough acid and some soft, yielding ripe fruit flavours, but nothing too loud. Lovely siky texture. 93 points, fair value.
A collaboration with Pascal Jolivet of Sancerre, so perhaps unsurprisingly this Sauvignon is a fairly mineral style, but backed up with concentrated, tangy lime and kiwi juice. Intense and long. 91 points, just about fair value.
Light, fresh, fruity and floral style of Chenin with pear, quince and apple. Top notes of honeysuckle. Lovely fresh impression with a touch of crème brulée richness on the finish. Has a natural, authentic feel to it. 94 points, good value.
Single vineyard in the Hemel en Aarde Valley, Chardonnay grown on clay and shale, 17% new oak. Rich nose with apricot and honeysuckle. Medium-bodied, with a rounded mouthfeel and sweet fruits, leading to a touch of honeycomb on the finish. All very well judged and balanced, with great length – it really sails on into the distance. 94 points, good value.
Mostly Chenin Blanc, with Grenache Blanc, Clairette, Viognier, Verdelho, Roussanne, Semillon Gris, Semillon Blanc and Palomino from 17 vineyards across Swartland. Pear, mirabelle plum and honeysuckle aromatics. This medium-bodied yet powerful white has a fine thread of bright acidity running through it, all ending with honeyed yet dry, lightly toasty finish. Perfectly balanced, long and satisfying, this is brilliant winemaking. 96 points, fair value.
Pale in colour, with pure, fragrant red berry aromatics. Silky mouthfeel, with fine, gentle tannins and a juicy finish. Long, elegant, with burgeoning complexity. 92 points, good value.
95% Syrah, 5% Mourvèdre. 5% new oak. Clean, relaxed, authentic blackberry aromatics, just-ripe fruit. Some bacon fat and a whiff of tar add complexity. Wonderfully smooth mouthfeel with exceptionally fine tannins, all backed up with balanced acids. Medium-bodied, with a natural feel and a long, mineral finish. Exceptional South African Syrah. 96 points, fair value.
Syrah grown on one block of southeast-facing granite. 20% stems included, 100% 2nd use oak. Beautiful dark berry fruits on the nose, fresh, slightly floral and faintly peppery. Mouth-coating tannins and extract, intense, bright and zingy. Integrated oak, long, very pure, with a wonderful texture. Has the brooding, deep, dark nature of Syrah grown on granite. Extremely good. 95 points, fair value.


Milkfish fillet pasta is a good for whole family and since it is easy to cook the dish suitable for all occasions. Moreover, it is a healthy meal served with nice ingredients and really quick to be cooked even without any effort. If you like to experience many pasta recipes, you seriously need to try making pasta with milkfish bangus because the fish has tender meats and mild flavor and thus the pasta seasonings can bring the taste better. And did you know consuming milkfish can help to provide good nutrition intake of omega 3 fatty acids? This is why it is recommended that we eat fish at least 2 to 3 servings as omega 3 source.
Our first milkfish fillet pasta is really creamy so it melts in your mouth which is really tasty and it also served with delicious nutty pesto. To cook the pasta, you can follow these instructions.
1. Prepare the fish fillets. If you purchase frozen milkfish fillets then you should thaw them properly. You can thaw the fish by store it inside refrigerator overnight or soak the fillets in a bowl of cold water. You can also cook the frozen fillets straight out of the freezer simply by rinse it under running cool water to get rid the ice crystal.
2. Marinate the fillets for 5 to 15 minutes with pepper, salt, and lemon juice.
3. Preheat the cooking oil and put the all purpose flour in a bowl or plate. Dredge the both side of the fillets in the flour and shake to remove any excess.
4. Deep fry the fillets one by one until they are cooked or when both parts are turn into golden brown with crispy texture on the outside. Remove the fish when it is done and then place to the paper towel to drain exceed oil.
6. You need to serve this milkfish fillet pasta recipe to maintain the crispiness and it is better to be served when still hot or steamy anyway.
If you want to share other milk fish fillet pasta recipes then we are glad to hear from you. You can experiment other recipes using milkfish bangus fillets as the main ingredients. In fact, you can even replace other fish recipes with milkfish if you want milder flavor. Milkfish is good as replacement for tuna or salmon recipes, because it is healthy and has a very delicious taste.
Milkfish can be cooked in many cooking methods not only served as pasta too but also prepared with baking, broiling, steaming, smoking, and many more. Even some people like to serve milkfish as raw ingredient in sushi or sashimi recipes.
For milkfish fillet pasta recipes, you can also try to cook the fish with cheesy Italian pasta and just like you already guessed, it is really delicious. The cheese melt in your mouth and you can even mix it with tomato sauce. To make this recipe you just need to do similar cooking method with the recipe above. You need to deep fry the fish fillets and then make soy garlic sauce. Serve the crispy fillet pasta with the sauce, sprinkle some sesame seed and of course do not forget the creamy cheese that melt in your mouth.
Pasta is a perfect healthy meal because usually it served with vegetables, heart healthy fish like milkfish bangus, antioxidant rich tomato sauce, lean meats, high protein packed cheese, beans, and many more. In addition, milkfish fillet pasta is really good to be included in diet because it does not bring high calories level and besides, milkfish full of nutrients, minerals, and vitamins which are support good and healthy diet.
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Il Cinema Ritrovato (Cinema Rediscovered) is a festival which specializes in the rediscovery of rare and little-known films with a particular focus on early cinema and the silent period, a mandate which it shares with Memory!. Organized by the Cineteca di Bologna, Italy, the festival is one of the world's major film restoration showcases in Europe. Founded as a small initiative in 1986, it has become an increasingly international meeting place for restoration professionals, early cinema enthusiasts, and film scholars.
Memory! presents four selections from the Il Cinema Ritrovato catalogue, beginning with Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922). With Nosferatu, Murnau developed a visual language of silent film that was almost forgotten with the advent of sound. Though this film was never in danger of disappearing entirely, due to the sheer number of copies in existence, the continuous return to the screen (and the classroom) of this timeless classic of expressionist filmmaking has inspired generations of filmmakers who have studied, imitated, and reworked its aesthetics.
Charles Chaplin's Modern Times (1936) marks another critical moment of the history of film. Just as the German Expressionists, to which Murnau belonged, had created a unique way of expressing the moving image, Chaplin's generation of slapstick clowns (Harold Lloyd Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardie among others) had invented their own universal language (much as cultural specificity complicates claims to universalism) appreciated by audiences worldwide. Rather than the celebrating the added acoustic dimension to motion pictures, Moden Times was Chaplin's push back against corporatism, the advent of sound, and the stylistic, aesthetic, and narrative constraints it would impose. Throughout the generations, filmmakers across the world continue to pay homage to the little Tramp and his message of humanism and social justice.
Two films released in the same year conclude this section. Santi-Vina is 'Marut' Thavi Na Bangchang's (1954) classic drama, the first Thai film to win international recognition including best cinematography, best art direction and a special award for portraying Asian culture at the 1954 Southeast Asian Film Festival in Tokyo. For a long time, the original materials of Santi-Vina were considered lost, but in 2014 the original negative was discovered at the British Film Institute (BFI) and the release prints were found at the China Film Archive and at the Gosfilmofond. Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia, 1954) is one of Roberto Rossellini's recently restored works, an interesting attempt to combine neorealist filmmaking with Hollywood talent.
This small selection of films hopes to suggest that the continuous exhibition of heritage films is just as necessary—if not more so—as their restoration and preservation, if we consider that culture is an act of social practice and is created in the process of experiencing it.
For more details, please visit Il Cinema Ritrovato's official site.


Not more pee!! Yes, I blame the crazy we.nhera..to, actually, i blame the bengal. Blame the Bengal!! Had a lovely day w/ ben at the aquarium and then got milkshakes, played tag, watched NOVA about tornadoes, read harry potter, ben went to sleep and i watched Daily Shows. Nice :)Now it's bed for me. Nighty night all.
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The autonomy of "Cataluña" in Spanish (Catalunya in Catalan) is situated just south of France, between the Mediterranean Sea and Pyrenees Mountains. It has played an important role in Spain's evolution since Iberians settled along its coast and traded with the Phoenicians, through its Golden years and decline, until the present day. And as a result of this special relationship, the Catalan autonomy is deemed a "Historical Nationality" in the Spanish Constitution, along with the Basque Country and Galicia.
The word Catalunya ("Catalonia" in English) first appeared as "Los Catalanenses" in the late 11th century, most likely prior to it becoming the name for a group of counties, that comprised part of the March of Gothia and March of Hispania, under the control of the Count of Barcelona and his Frankish relatives. The origin of the name, Catalunya, however, is subject to diverse interpretations because of a lack of evidence. What is undisputed, however, is that it later formed part of the Kingdom of Aragon, whose King Ferdinand married Castile's Queen Isabel, creating the Kingdom of Spain, in 1492.
Tarragona, in the south, has a Roman Coliseum and aqueduct. Inland from the coast are the vineyards for the famous "cava" (sparkling wine) the region produces.
In-between is the seaside village of Sitges, with its famous Carnival in February and shallow, crystal blue water.
In the north are the rocky coves of La Costa Brava, the city of Girona and the white villages of Cadaqués, that gave us the surrealist mind of Salvador Dalí, and Figueres, where you'll find his museum.
Lleida (Catalonia's oldest city, with artifacts dating to the Bronze Age) rises in the middle of the depression of the Pyrenees Mountains. It is one of the few places in Spain where Castilian isn't the main language.
Throughout the countryside are medieval villages to visit and rural homes in the mountains to relax in. The coast is populated with different beach towns, each with its own charm. The local people are called "Catalans" and many are bilingual, speaking "Catalan" in addition to "Castellano". Fish and seafood from the Mediterranean Sea form the foundation of the local cuisine. "Butifarra" comes in different colors (white, black and red) while"pa amb tomàquet" [Catalan pronunciation: ˈpam tuˈmakət] is served with most meals. The region's many wines of different flavors and artisan beers provide the refreshments for its world famous eateries. And to top it all off, the smell from the nearby "panadería" scents the morning air, making it one of the few places in the world where you can enjoy good pastries and good coffee at a café.
Here's a video touring the famous Boquería market in Barcelona. Hear how renowned Chef Isidre Gironés switches between Spanish and Catalan as he does his shopping. It's standard fair for many residents of the region, giving the region a bit of a twist.


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600 littered plastic bottles were used by Tom Davies, a New Zealand native living in Fiji, to create this boat. It measures 4.5 metres long and 1.4 metres wide. All the 600ml bottles used are glued together to a layer of foam underneath. In Tom's tests, the boat can hold up to three big Fijian men. Tom's vision is for villagers to reuse the massive number of plastic bottles littering the seashores and roadsides. "Instead of using bamboos for the bilibili (raft), they can use empty plastic bottles and it lasts much longer than bamboo rafts," Tom said. With so many options out there, disposable plastic bottles should really be avoided unless absolutely necessary. Plus, the water tastes better if it is not coming from a plastic bottle.


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Home Financial news Sweden Unexpectedly Expands QE By 40%
Back in 2017, Sweden made a mistake: the Governor of the Swedish Riksbank, Stefan Ingves, described the use of negative interest rates an "experiment" never tried before, and with inflation in the Scandinavian country surging, he said that the experiment was officially over, with the Riksbank beginning a hiking cycle in late 2018 which pushed the Swedish repo rate back to 0 last December, and making another trip into negative rates virtually impossible without the Riksbank's reputation suffering a terminal hit.
While the impact of the negative rates on the domestic inflation rate was small (and in fact probably contributed to wholesale deflation as we have shown previously), the effects of negative rates on the housing market – where prices exploded amid the ultra-loose conditions making housing unaffordable, and on household debt levels are large. As a result, imbalances which had already begun to materialize before the Global Crisis have worsened. Real estate prices rose rapidly, contributing to rising wealth inequality (and yes, a central bank was explicitly at fault), while household debt reached record levels. Ironically, even though the exchange rate of the Swedish krona has depreciated by more than 10%, with no major impact on the domestic rate of inflation.
In short, as Professors Fredrik Andersson and Lars Jonung wrote in May, Sweden's negative rates "created an economy with signs of 'overheating'. However, this is likely a short-run gain. The Riksbank will face a major challenge to calibrate its policy during the next downturn."
Their conclusion on Sweden's negative rates experience was simple: "Don't do it again!"
There is just one problem: when the Riksbank resumed tightening and pushed rates back to 0%, both its and Europe's economy were recovering, and it seemed there was limited risk from another contraction. And then the covid pandemic hit, crippling both Europe – which is facing a double dip recession following the latest round of lockdowns – and Sweden's economy.
And since the world's oldest central bank could not cut rates again without risking a huge reputational and credibility blow after it triumphantly ended its "negative rates experiment" several years ago, eager to halt the dramatic appreciation in the Swedish Krone which is up more than 6% YTD, the central bank had just one option: expand QE even more.
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Which is precisely what the Sweden's central bank did this morning when it surprised markets with a bigger-than-expected expansion of its asset purchase program, and said there's room to deliver more stimulus between scheduled meetings. Specifically, the Riksbank announced that it was expanding its quantitative easing program to 700 billion kronor ($82 billion), which is 200 billion kronor more than its earlier target. With economists at SEB predicting a 100 billion-krona QE expansion, while most others expected no change in policy, the krona immediately sank up to 0.5% against the euro although it remains dramatically higher YTD.
Meanwhile, the key interest rate was kept at zero, as expected, and will probably stay there in "the coming years," the bank said, clearly not willing to risk reversing on its promises to not go back to NIRP.
And since it no longer has the capacity to cut rates "for years" absent a complete economic crash, the Riksbank not only expanded its QE target, but also said it will step up the pace of asset purchases next quarter, as the Executive Board also decided to step up the quarter-on-quarter pace of its purchases during the first quarter of 2021, committing to buy SEK120bn over that quarter, which means QE will only keep rising as long as negative rates remain off the table.
The surprising decision to expand the asset purchase program prompted "reservations" from two Executive Board members advocating for later action: Breman advocated that the program should instead be expanded by SEK100 billion during the second half of 2021; Floden thought that the Riksbank should pledge that monetary policy will remain expansionary as long as necessary without deciding now on purchase sums for the second half of 2021. Their opposition to the QE expansion was duly noted… and ignored.
At the press briefing, Governor Stefan Ingves said the extra 200 billion kronor in QE won't be put toward reinvestments, but also assured markets that the Riksbank will continue to reinvest in bonds affected by its program.
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"If the world changes, if there's turbulence for various reasons and if we conclude that we need to do something between meetings, we will do so," Ingves said during a virtual press briefing in Stockholm on Thursday.
As Bloomberg notes, and confirming the above, "Ingves has repeatedly underscored his preference for asset purchases over rate cuts to support the economy. The Riksbank ended half a decade of negative rates almost a year ago, and Ingves has shown a reluctance to delve below zero again, amid financial stability concerns."
Alas, Sweden shows just what happens when a central bank is virtually out of ammo, and worse – it main policy tool, interest rates, is now limited to the zero lower bound. Meanwhile, the country is now bracing for a dark winter as the pandemic spreads, intensive-care beds fill up and curbs on movement increase. The government has already warned that the next few months will be tougher on the economy than first feared.
Fearing that much worse is yet to come, the Riksbank tried to pretend as if it never said all those bad things about "experimental" negative rates, knowing full well it will have no choice but to go NIRP again, sooner or later. As a result, the Riksbank said the repo rate "can be cut if this is assessed to be an effective measure, particularly if confidence in the inflation target were to be threatened." The irony, of course, is that years of negative rates did nothing to boost inflation to hit the target; instead what NIRP did is create a massive housing and debt bubble, which the Riksbank scrambled to shortcircuit before everything came crashing down.
And now it faces a dismal dilemma: reflate the biggest asset and credit bubble ever (which even the Riksbank has admitted is it own doing), ensuring that the next crash – when it comes – will be truly devastating, or step back and allow the economy to crumble. Meanwhile, inflation remains well below the Riksbank's 2% target, coming in at just 0.3% in October.
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The Riksbank's surprise decision to expand its stimulus program came just two weeks before the European Central Bank is expected to unveil more support measures.
"We are neighbors with an elephant and when the elephant moves it affects us,' Ingves said. "I can't comment on what they'll do and in what way, but basically everything the ECB does to keep the euro zone economy running and to bring up inflation is good for Sweden as well."
"But what they'll do and how, we'll have to see further ahead, because we are not party to that decision-making process," Ingves said.
Well, Stefan, we can tell you: the ECB will almost certainly expand its emergency pandemic QE by hundreds of billions in December, as today's ECB minutes hinted.
Meanwhile, In Thursday's statement, the Riksbank cut its forecast for gross domestic product this year and now sees a contraction of 4%, compared with 3.6% previously. The rebound in 2021 will also be smaller than earlier thought, with growth seen at 2.6%, compared with the 3.7% seen earlier.
But going back to the problem at hand, the Riksbank revised down its growth forecasts to -4.0% (compared to the -3.6% forecast in September) for 2020 and 2.6% (3.7%) for 2021. At the same time, inflation will remain below the bank's 2% target throughout the forecast period, which extends into 2023. The Riksbank expects unemployment to peak at 9.4% in 2021—a 0.2pp upward revision from the September MPR—before falling back subsequently.
Looking ahead, the MPR reiterated that the "possibility of a repo rate cut cannot be ruled out" although to do that and to crush what little credibility it has left, would require a true economic shock. The Riksbank cited the exchange rate, how fast the supply side of the economy recovers, and the pass-through of the repo rate to interest rates in the broader economy as factors it will consider when assessing the usefulness of an interest rate cut, clearly forgetting its admission as recently as 2018 that NIRP was an "experimental" mistake.
Via Zerohedge
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