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School of Management, Mae Fah Luang University| Why MFU?
Mae Fah Luang University (MFU) was established as an autonomous public university, under the Royal Charter, in 1998, with generous support from the Royal Thai Government. The University was established to meet the needs of people in the north of Thailand, and to commemorate the gracious contributions of the Kin's Mother, Her Royal Highness Princess Srinagarindra, lovingly known to her subjects as "Mae Fah Luang." From its inaugural class of 64 students in 1998, MFU has become Thailand's fastest growing post-secondary institution with an enrollment of just under 10,000 students. After little over a decade of operation, MFU is already well known for its high-quality teaching, research, and service to the people of the whole country, the neighboring countries of the Greater Mekhong Sub-region (GMS), and to all of Southeast Asia. Recently, we had just celebrated our 16-year anniversary in September 2014 with a deeply-held commitment to becoming a world-class educational institution through continuous improvement, collaborations and partnerships.
The School of Management of Mae Fah Luang University aims to craft proficient graduates in each field of study to meet the needs of businesses, industries and government departments, throughout Thailand and abroad. The School is recognised as one of Thailand's fastest growing and effective international business schools, constantly producing high quality graduates, offering extensive and diverse courses, using modern teaching approaches to ensure the utmost benefit to the students, and also providing a high amount of exchange opportunities to many of its partner institutions. All of the School's academic programmes are well-constructed, extensive, diverse and suitable for both Thai and international students. Moreover, the School's quality assurance system certifies the quality of education in crafting proficient graduates in each field of study.
Our School of Management offers bachelor's degree programmes in 7 fields of study consisting of Accounting, Aviation Business Management, Business Administration, Economics, Hospitality Industry Management, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, and Tourism Management. For master's degree programmes, we offer another 4 areas of study in Business Administration, Entrepreneurial Management, Logistics and Supply Chain Management and Tourism Management. We also offer a doctoral degree programme in Business Administration.
The School of Management has developed international collaboration through student exchange with KU LEUVEN-Group T International College Leuven, Belgium; the Management Centre Innsbruck, Austria and St.Gallen University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland. Additionally, the School of Management has a joint Bachelor of Business Administration programme with Brighton University, England (dual-degree programme). Apart from our professional faculty members, we also have a visiting scholar from Hochschule Osnabruck, University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
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Hubble telescope refines universe expansion rate mystery
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Scientists have a new, more accurate, measurement of the expansion of the universe thanks to decades worth of data from the Hubble Space Telescope.
The new analysis of data from the 32-year-old Hubble Space Telescope continues the observatory's longstanding quest to better understand how quickly the universe expands, and how much that expansion is accelerating.
The number astronomers use to measure this expansion is called the Hubble Constant (not after the telescope but after astronomer Edwin Hubble who first measured it in 1929). The Hubble Constant is a tough one to pin down given that different observatories looking at different zones of the universe have delivered different answers. But a new study expresses confidence that Hubble's most recent effort is precise for the expansion it sees, although there is still a difference from other observatories.
The new study confirms previous expansion rate estimates based on Hubble observations, showing an expansion of roughly 45 miles (73 kilometers) per megaparsec. (A megaparsec is a measurement of distance equal to one million parsecs, or 3.26 million light years†
Related: The best Hubble Space Telescope images of all time!
"Given the large Hubble sample size, there is only a one-in-a-million chance astronomers are wrong due to an unlucky draw … a common threshold for taking a problem seriously in physics," NASA said in a statement on Thursday (May 19), paraphrasing Nobel Laureate and study lead author Adam Riess.
Riess has affiliations at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) that manages Hubble, as well as the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Riess and collaborators received the Nobel in 2011 after Hubble and other observatories confirmed that the universe was acceleration in its expansion† Riess calls this latest Hubble effort a "magnum opus" given that it draws upon practically the telescope's entire history, 32 years of space work, to deliver an answer.
Hubble's data nailed down its observed expansion rate under a program called SHOES (Supernova, H0, for the Equation of State of Dark Energy.) The dataset doubles a previous sample of measurements and also includes more than 1,000 Hubble orbits, NASA stated. The new measurement is also eight times more precise than expectations for Hubble's capabilities.
Efforts to measure how fast the universe is expanding usually focus on two distance markers. One of them are the Cepheid stars, variable stars that brighten and dim at a constant rate; their utility has been known since 1912, when astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt marked their importance in imagery she was reviewing.
Cepheids are good for charting distances that are inside the Milky Way (our galaxy) and in nearby galaxies. For further distances, astronomers rely upon Type 1a supernovas† These supernovas have a consistent luminosity (inherent brightness), allowing for precise estimates of their distance based on how bright they appear in telescopes.
In the new study, NASA stated, "the team measured 42 of the supernova milepost markers with Hubble. Because they are seen exploding at a rate of about one per year, Hubble has, for all practical purposes, logged as many supernovae as possible for measuring the universe's expansion." (Again, Hubble has been in space for about 32 years, having launched on April 24, 1990; a mirror flaw that hindered early work was addressed by astronauts in December 1993.)
But the expansion rate still does not have full agreement across different efforts. The new study says Hubble's measurements are roughly 45 miles (73 kilometers) per megaparsec. But when taking into account observations of the deep universe, the rate slows down to about 42 miles (67.5 kilometers) per megaparsec.
Deep universe observations rely principally upon measurements by the European Space Agency's Planck missionwhich observed the "echo" of the Big Bang that formed our universe. The echo is known as the cosmic microwave background† NASA said astronomers are "at a loss" to figure out why there are two different values, but suggested we may have to rethink basic physics.
Riess said it is best to see the expansion rate not for its exact value at its time, but its implications. "I don't care what the expansion value is specifically, but I like to use it to learn about the universe," Riess said in the NASA statement.
More measurements are expected to come in the due 20 years from the James Webb Space Telescope, which is completing commissioning work in deep space ahead of looking at some of the first galaxies. Webb, NASA said, will look at Cepheids and Type 1a supernovas "at greater distances or sharper resolution than what Hubble can see." That may in turn refine Hubble's observed rate.
A paper based on the research will be published in the Astronomical Journal. a preprint version is available on arXiv.org.
Follow Elizabeth Howell on Twitter @howellspace† Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or Facebook.

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The Batman: Matt Reeves Shares Film's Comic Inspiration
By Megan Peters - August 22, 2020 10:02 pm EDT
Matt Reeves did not play around when he began to prepare for The Batman. The film has been looked upon by fans as a symbol of hope for the DC fandom, and those wishes were embraced at DC FanDome today. The event revealed the first trailer of The Batman, but before it went live, the director shared one of his deep-cut comic inspirations for the film.
During the panel, The Batman director was asked whether he read a comic that inspired the film which fans wouldn't have guessed. It was there Reeves pointed to Batman: Ego from Darwyn Cooke.
"I wanted to get into the mindset of the character and I wanted to think of the psychology. For me, I think one of the cool deep dive ones was Darwyn's Ego. He's confronting the beast that is Batman and it's that kind of duality... there's a lot in what it's trying to do in the story about him confronting the shadow side of himself and the degree to which you have self knowledge," he told fans.
"You're able to understand your motivations, but he's broken Batman and why he's doing all of these things for the reasons that he thinks is right and that have a heroic sort of grounding in them. There's also many things that are driven by the parts of himself he doesn't yet know, and so I would say that that kind of sort of psychological union, that sort of version is very much connected to the vision from Darwyn Cooke's Ego."
For those unaware of the comic, Batman: Ego was published back in August 2000. The one-shot follows Bruce Wayne after the man helped bring down the Joker with help from an informant called Buster Snibbs. When the man kills himself and family out of fear of the Joker, Bruce is left to wrestle with guilt. He chooses to leave his life as Batman behind, but the story then delves into an introspective story where Bruce and Batman come to a head over their past. This story was met with praise from fans, and it seems Reeves gleaned good inspiration from the comic. So if you have not picked it up, you best do so before The Batman debuts.
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Being Fired Is Worse Than Committing Treason…Who Knew?
Jon Stewart And the Corruption Of Money
Nobody Flashes Paul Harvey: The Man and the Birds
Nobody Knows Where the Money Goes
Nobody Wins When This Is Going On
Nobody's Email: Children Explain the Ocean
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On this Veterans Day…many boys are coming home. Thank God I say. It's not just the lives lost, it's the purposeless wars where American once again spend the last of it's precious lives on what exactly? When our President told us why he was bringing them home, it was said with the feeling of every American heart. The costs were getting just too much to bear.
WAR. Nobody wants it, and yet, it's endless.
I remember seeing the embassy that President George W. Bush built in Iraq, and I remember thinking just WHO did he built that monster of a complex for? For our soldiers? Or for the Saudi's? It was beyond insanely big and insanely expensive.
Trump said, "We are getting out." The screams heard all over Washington were almost too much to bear. After all, it's not THEIR kids losing their lives.
No…as the old saying goes…follow the money. And the money is great in war.
Like our President said: We should have never been in Iraq. The Bush family wanted to go into that area, and never had any plans of getting out.
My generation, all had parents who served in WWII. They didn't talk about it, but we all knew, it was so horrible they didn't want to EVER talk about it, so we didn't.
I grew up with friends that were killed in Vietnam. It was NOT a popular war. And the war in the Middle East, despite the brave men and women who sign up to serve, seems just as pointless.
So on this Veterans Day, I'm wondering about all the people walking around the grave and putting flags on the all the lives sacrificed for our country, it does make you wonder. What price have we paid? All those lives lost only to have a complete party of politicians wanting socialism?
And now, in 2019, the curtain of the Industrial Military Complex has been exposed. Except, now, it's called the "deep state" and extends beyond the Pentagon. It's tentacles have grown beyond the Pentagon to the FBI, the CIA, and the State Department. Departments that have a will of their own.
President Trump recently mentioned in a speech the warning that Eisenhower gave about the danger of a powerful military complex rising up and taking over our democracy. He said this in defense of all the politicians going crazy over our abandonment of the Kurds.
Never mind that most of us only know what we are told on our TV's about them.
Rush Limbaugh recently explained the reason for all the impeachment proceeding. He explained that it goes way beyond the democrats losing the election…but to the very entrenched unelected bureaucrats that stay throughout every presidency. The 'establishment' that has ruled behind the scenes for so many years, are being now lead by a man who wants it all to change, the money to stop flowing to corporations in bed with politicians, and so, the screaming is loud. The FBI, the State Department, and the CIA…all now refusing to cooperate with this President.
When General Mattis 'quit' or was fired, depending on how you look at it, over the orders from President Trump to withdraw our troops from war in Syria, he did it, but publicly denounced the decision: it's not one he approved of he said. We all thought the good general would not do such a thing publicly, but he did. John Kelly, another military man, shocking us all by 'disagreeing' with the president.
The constitution clearly notes that the President is the Commander-in-Chef. To be obeyed. It's just the law. But so many generals and ambassadors really don't feel they have to obey.
So when did this military complex become so strong, so unmanageable that now, Presidents have no control?
It seems to have grown out of WWII.
I've been reading in Margaret Truman's biography of her father President Harry Truman, and she pointed out how angry Truman was when the very famous General McAurther just started doing things on his own. After the communists stormed into South Korea, Truman, had to decided weather to send troops over…not a popular move considering the country would have to go back to rationing. Another war would be a terrible move for all politicians.
But Truman was a big U.N. supporter, and the British and Indian governments wanted to give China a seat at the table, concessions in Trade, and Formosa if they would withdraw. Truman didn't want China at the table.
"Dad had to keep the more headstrong members of the armed forces under control. Early in July he learned that the air force was planning high level photo reconnaissance mission over Russia to see if Stalin was going to move into Korea."
Truman didn't want to make it LOOK like we were at war, he was afraid of starting WWIII with Russia. But General McAurther wanted the troops over there to stop China.
So, Truman just said it was a U.N. action. Not a U.S. declaration of war.
Nice huh? Neither President OR Congress has to declare war anymore because they can just sent troops waywhere under the U.N., keeping their fingerprints off war for reelection purposes.
Truman and Douglass were always butting heads. Truman made him the United Nations commander. As soon as he did that, there was trouble. Douglass wanted Formosa.
And the General wrote a letter to be sent to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, He outright challenged President Truman on his stance on Formosa. "Those who speak thus do not understand the Orient." Truman told Douglass to withdraw his statement. And then to his surprise the Secretary of Defense sided with the General over the President.
They told the President "It was only one man's opinion."
This episode was so close to the last straw in my father's efforts to be patient with Louis Johns The secretary of Defense had become an obstructionist force in the government. He had used the outbreak of the Korean War to sharpen and widen his feud with Secretary
of State Acheson. He went around Washington making sneering remarks about disloyalty in the State Department and intimating that the Department of Defense was the only reliable force for a constructive foreign policy in the goverment.
So, what happens is that men get in positions of power, want the life time gig, and refuse to obey orders. And this is happening right now to President Trump. It seems EVERYONE is disobeying his orders. The deep state now, is so big and powerful it works everyday just to get rid of a duly elected President who wants to take control.
If President Trump forces or just exercises his own powers granted to him by the Constitution, they call him a dictator.
Anyway, just some thoughts on this Memorial Day. I'm remembering my own dad who lost his brother at Midway. And many of the young boys I knew who came back from Vietnam and got blasted by their own people.
War is hell. And those who volunteer to go to hell for a noble cause are to be put above all others.
We say a prayer of thanks to them all today. Frankly, I'm tired of 'celebrating' woman's day and black history and climate change guru's…when the most important thing we have are the lives of our soldiers.
By the way, my own father, who served in the Pacific as a Seabee, said that ALL the men hated General McAurther. To them, he was a pompous ass, who would come strolling in for the photo op after the battle.
But both my parents loved IKE. General Eisenhower saved the world, along with our boys and the brave men who fought beside them from other nations.
And Ike was trying to tell us, way back then, the trouble that was coming our way.
He's right. It's going to be up to us.
Thank God was have a President who is bringing our boys home.
A REAL Commander in Chief. Shame on the Generals who now come out against him.
Like General McAurther…the history books might praise their deeds, but the people… will remember them as…
Well, just not true patriots.
November 10, 2019 - Posted by	Joyanna Adams | American History, Uncategorized	| History, Veterans Day
I am a nobody. If the different classes of America were color-coded, I would be in the yucky brown, one rung up from the bottom. I grew up in Naples, Florida and live near the Mississippi River now with my husband and two dogs. I am part of the slowly disappearing middle-class. I was a musician most of my life: drummer/singer/keyboards—but I retired before the plastic surgery flu hit. I have no degrees, which could be a good thing…depending on how you view our educational system. I do have three patents…but that really doesn't make me a somebody. The one thing that is constant in my life is my OPINIONS, which i have more than perhaps even Carl Sagan could have imagined…mostly political. (yes…my ancestors were crabby buggers)
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I recommend this eBook to anybody aspiring as a blogger, not because I've tried and tested these techniques, and to some extent succeed in it, but these are fruitful in real sense. This book contains responses of this industry to my past blogging actions and experiences.
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The Salad Bowl of America: Are Immigrants Vital to American Agriculture?
By jackijwood
Note: this is a speech my daughter wrote for FFA Public Speaking Contest where she advanced to state and placed 6th.
Hannah Wood
Carrollton ACC FFA
"Creo en el futuro de la agricultura, con una fe que no nace de las palabras sino de los hechos." In English, that translates as,"I believe in the future of agriculture, with a faith born not of words but of deeds" (FFA Creed). I'm Hannah Wood, representing the Carrollton ACC FFA Chapter, and I have grown up in a home where I hear both Spanish and English. My dad is a Spanish teacher who has helped me better understand the lives and cultures of people with different ethnic backgrounds as well as how immigrants have shaped our country. I'm realizing how those immigrants are intertwined with American agriculture and that immigration will affect the future of agriculture.
The United States' agricultural system is one of the leading producers and suppliers in the world. The United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service reports that, of the 1 million hired farm workers, 42 percent are foreign born, meaning nearly 500,000 immigrants are working on farms today (Successful Farming).
There is a fear that using immigrant labor takes away jobs and income from American-born workers. Stephen Devadoss and Jeff Luckstead, writing in the Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, found that in California, where 95 percent of farmworkers are immigrants, this fear is not valid. They found that wage reduction was inconsequential, and that it would take over 80 new immigrant farmworkers to displace one American-born farmworker. However, one immigrant farmworker increases vegetable production, for example, by over $23,000 and strengthens the productivity of skilled workers by nearly $12,000 (Devadoss).
The Wall Street Journal reported about 20 percent of agricultural products were not harvested nationwide in 2006, and the losses in 2007 were estimated to be even higher, because there were not enough farm workers to harvest the food (Devadoss). Last year, American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall cautioned a food crisis could occur due to labor shortages in at least 20 states where crops would rot in fields if something didn't change. That is food wasted that could be feeding the hungry in this country and around the world (Barth).
By the year 2050, the United States will have an estimated 438 million people and the world will have an estimated 9 billion people. How will we feed those people if there are not enough laborers to harvest the food?
Juan Castro, a migrant farm laborer on a tomato farm in Alabama, only makes what he can pick. His day begins at 7 a.m. and goes until 6 p.m., earning $2 for each 25-pound basket he fills. That amounts to about $60 for the day, under the heat of the sun and the dirt of the field, with a chronic pinched nerve in his neck from bending over for hours, and little time for breaks. He said, "the only reason that we can stand it is for our children" (Dwoskin).
Milan Kordestani, CEO and Founder of Milan Farms, said: "As the demand for food products grows along with the population, farmers will increasingly struggle to keep up with demand, leading to the United States developing a reliance on foreign countries to produce our food" (Kordestani).
Solutions have been proposed to help with this problem including the Agricultural Worker Immigration Program. This bill has two components: a new Blue Card program offering a path to citizenship for current undocumented farm workers and the creation of two new Agricultural Visa programs to ensure an adequate, future agricultural workforce (Feinstein).
"Almost all the ideas lead back to one answer," Kordestani said, "which is that we need to allow immigrants to come into this country to work the jobs American citizens don't want" (Kordestani).
"I believe that American agriculture can and will hold true to the best traditions of our national life" (FFACreed). This country was founded by immigrants and have been a part of the best traditions in our history. As Kordestani said, "Instead of trying to find a way without immigrants, why don't we find a way to keep them and continue to allow them to be a part of the American story of agriculture?"
I do believe in the future of agriculture, with a faith born not of words but of deeds — the work and accomplishments of both American born and immigrant farmworkers. Our future depends on it.
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Welcome to the best of both worlds. My childhood banana bread meets the zucchini bread and they live happily ever after. I love this bread because it's sweet, dense and moist. It doesn't fall apart if you want to slather on the jam or butter. And it's lower fat and has lovely omega's (from flax) to boot. The thing that I love about "tea breads" is that it tastes like dessert but I was allowed to have it for breakfast. Aptly named a tea bread, it is also acceptable for the British custom of tea time. And even though it has plenty of sugar, there are vegetables involved so don't be scared. Bananas are high in B6 and magnesium. Bananas and zucchini both contain potassium, Vitamin C and obviously are full of fiber. The humble zucchini also has plenty of Vitamin A. Luckily, they both store well and where I live, zucchini can grow like a weed.
When I have a huge crop of zucchini in the garden, I grate it, measure it out and put them in labeled ziplock bags so that I don't burn out on zucchini bread all at once. I tend to get too many bananas at once and instead of letting them go bad and cry about it, I freeze those too. To freeze bananas, I peel them and put them on a cookie sheet and freeze them for about an hour. (this step is so that if they are overly ripe, they don't freeze together and become a big mass) Then I transfer them to ziplocks and store them in the freezer. I love freezers and their ability to happily handle the fact that I cook for 6 in a family of 2. Whenever I make dinner, I freeze half of it for the eventual lazy day when I want home cooked food but don't want to wait or go out to eat. Anyways, I'm sure you are ready for the recipe so here it is! Oh, and if you are interested, one of my grandmas goes by the name Keane, so she gets a bread named after her.
Enjoy my revamped vegan bread for breakfast, dessert or any old time. My favorite way to eat this bread is warmed and smothered in cream cheese.
Preheat oven to 350 deg F and lightly grease a loaf pan.
In a bowl, mix the oil, applesauce, sugars, flax and water.
Add the bananas and vanilla and mix well.
Fold in the zucchini and set aside.
In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and spices. I usually just sift the baking powder and soda and mix it all together with a fork or whisk.
Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix it until most of the flour is incorporated and no large lumps remain.
Fold in the nuts if using and pour immediately into your greased pan and put in the oven.
Bake for 60-75 minutes, or until a knife/toothpick inserted comes out clean.
It will firm up if you let it cool for a bit but if you can't wait, don't listen to me. This bread keeps for 3 days on the counter, a week in the fridge and forever in the freezer. If you freeze it, cool it completely then wrap in plastic wrap and then wrap it in foil. Defrost in the fridge overnight. I try to keep a loaf in the freezer at all times in case there are unexpected weekend guests.
Oooh that looks scrummy and it's making my tummy rumble!
I love tea bread too! Especially whole wheat banana walnut bread. I always put peanut butter on mine. I guess I didn't realize how much food you freeze. I'm always a little nervous to freeze entrees, in case they don't come back well. I froze potato-leek soup once, and the texture was oddly chewy when I reheated it. Any tips?
I've had the same experience with a potato celery soup I made. Maybe potatoes just don't freeze nicely for texture. If I figure it out, I'll let you know. I have no problem freezing bean soups and other vegetable soups.
That bread looks delicious, thank you for sharing the recipe.
This recipe is a new favorite of mine. Have made it 3 times now for events where I needed to bring something–it has been a hit every time. I like it with a dash of cinnamon and nutmeg added in. Yum–thanks for the idea, I wouldn't have thought of combining bananas and zucchini but they pair well!
I'm so glad you're enjoying it CarrotSoup! Yes, cinnamon and nutmeg are the perfect additions! I don't know why I didn't think of it.
Wow- this is a great recipe thank you for sharing….I found your link on Zoey's Kitchen and made the muffins and mini muffins for my wee ones.
This is a fantastic treat! The first time I made them it completely overflowed my pan, but it still tasted amazing. The second time I made them, I doubled the recipe and made three loaves (my loaf pans are all 8.5×4.5 not 9×5). YUM! Also, I used less cinnamon, no nutmeg and more ginger. I have wintery connotations with cinnamon and nutmeg so prefer more ginger in the summer. The first time I made this, it was gone in under a day… We'll see how long three loaves last (just baked them today). Thanks for the lovely recipe!
Thanks for the input regarding pan sizes. I tend to bake at least 2 loaves at once…they freeze and defrost really well. I like to have a loaf in my freezer at all times for unexpected guests.
Yay! Glad you found it and are making the muffins. I love the recipe too…but I am working on making it less moist right now.


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Attempt to make a sourdough starter using dried apricots, using my immersion circulator for temperature control. I got some bubbling yeast activity, but the final bread dough never rose properly.
Inspired by the Swedish bread blog Pain de Martin which I recently discovered I decided it was time to have a go at sourdough breads! Although one of my favorite types of bread it's a long time since I gave it a try and even longer since I actually succeeded. Leaving apple peel covered with water for two weeks in a cool place (15 °C) I got a light apple cider which I used to make a starter some years ago. I followed a recipe from the Norwegian artisan bakery í…pent bakeri and it gave a marvelous bread. But since then I've tried to repeat this twice without success. No wonder that even Rose Levy Beranbaum in her book "The Bread Bible" writes that she didn't intend to include a chapter on sourdough at all. There's no doubt that sourdoughs are tricky, but I was a litte surprised and disappointed that someone who sets of to write a 600+ page book on bread even considered to skip sourdough… Luckily she changed her mind and the introduction has a fascinating nice-to-know fact: 1 g flour contains about 320 lactic acid bacteria and 13000 yeast cells!
I believe one the reasons why sourdoughs seem to live their own lifes sometimes is that they need to be kept in a warm place. My kitchen isn't that warm so I figured it was time to use my immersion circulator and give sourdough another chance (who says you can only use immersion circulators for sous vide anyway? – I think my next project will be to make yoghurt!). With a thermostated water bath keeping a sourdough starter at constant temperature is as easy as 1-2-3. But surprisingly I haven't seen any blogposts yet from people using their sous vide water baths for sourdough starters (although some have built their own water baths for this purpose using aquarium equipment).
I have recently come to know Miss Silvia. She's from Italy, weighs a good 14 kg and even my wife welcomed her in our kitchen! As home brew espresso afficionados will know by know, I've become the proud owner of an espresso machine from Rancilio! She's been around for a number of years, and is one of the most popular among prosumer espresso machines available before you take the step up to double boiler machines that allow simultaneous brewing and steaming. Every place that is (proud of) serving espresso uses these machines, but their price is well beyond most coffee lovers budget. The good news however is that even single boiler machines can produce excellent espresso!
The first time I offered the science of espresso any thought was when reading Jeffry Steingarten's accounts of his espresso adventure (in "It must've been something I ate") which brought him all the way to Italy and Illy and then back again to Manhatten where he set up 14 home espresso machines in his kitchen. This is also where I first was made aware of the fact that 7 g of coffee should be used for a single espresso (which is considerably more than the 5-6 grams found in the Nespresso capsules).
Since I decided to buy an espresso machine I have been devouring sites written by and for coffee enthusiasts: CoffeeGeek, Home Barista and Espresso! My Espresso! to mention a few. You'll be surprised how much one can possibly write about espresso!


New Delhi, Aug 31: Home Minister Rajnath Singh today disapproved, Ravinder Raina, the Jammu and Kashmir BJP president 's comments on NN Vohra and said that the former governor had been an outstanding officer throughout his tenure in office.
Rajnath Singh said that, "The governor's is a constitutional post and he has to be impartial. NN Vohra has performed his duties with distinction and also maintained constitutional dignity," adding that the people of Jammu and Kashmir have appreciated the role of Mr Vohra as governor for 10 years.
The Home Minister's comments came after his party's Jammu and Kashmir chief was seen in a video saying that the BJP did not want to continue with Mr Vohra. In the viral video, Raina was seen bragging to people: "Ab jo Governor aya hai, woh hamara banda hai." (The new Governor is our man)."
For last 10 years, Vohra served as the governor of Jammu and Kashmir, until the government announced that Satya Pal Malik would replace him. A rift between Vohra and the centre on the formation of a new government in the state, was reported.
A BJP legislator from Nowshera, Raina has been included in controversies. He was alleged of assaulting Independent legislator Engineer Rashid for hosting a "beef party", in 2015.
Since June 20, the state of Jammu and Kashmir has been under Governor's rule, after the BJP ended its coalition government with Mehbooba Mufti's People's Democratic Party or PDP, saying it was "untenable" to continue because of security concerns and rising terrorism.
The home minister said "Satya Pal Malik's long political experience will be beneficial for the people of Jammu and Kashmir."
The 71 year old Malik, a former lawmaker and Bhartiya Janata Party's national vice president. Earlier this month, he was sworn in as the 13th governor of Jammu and Kashmir which ended the five-decade-long practice of retired bureaucrats being appointed to the post.
Vohra was a former Union Home and Defence Secretary besides being a principal secretary to former PM, IK Gujral.
Singh's statement came after president of BJP's Jammu and Kashmir unit Ravinder Raina was heard purportedly saying in a video that the party did not want to continue with Vohra and "our own man" has now been appointed as a new Governor replacing Vohra. Raina has also allegedly said that Vohra used to tom-tom his own achievements.


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Carrying a stick sharpened into a makeshift spear, Jack trails a pig through the thick jungle, but it evades him. Irritated, he walks back to the beach, where he finds Ralph and Simon at work building huts for the younger boys to live in. Ralph is irritated because the huts keep falling down before they are completed and because, though the huts are vital to the boys' ability to live on the island, none of the other boys besides Simon will help him. As Ralph and Simon work, most of the other boys splash about and play in the lagoon. Ralph gripes that few of the boys are doing any work. He says that all the boys act excited and energized by the plans they make at meetings, but none of them is willing to work to make the plans successful. Ralph points out that Jack's hunters have failed to catch a single pig. Jack claims that although they have so far failed to bring down a pig, they will soon have more success. Ralph also worries about the smaller children, many of whom have nightmares and are unable to sleep. He tells Jack about his concerns, but Jack, still trying to think of ways to kill a pig, is not interested in Ralph's problems.
Ralph, annoyed that Jack, like all the other boys, is unwilling to work on the huts, implies that Jack and the hunters are using their hunting duties as an excuse to avoid the real work. Jack responds to Ralph's complaints by commenting that the boys want meat. Jack and Ralph continue to bicker and grow increasingly hostile toward each other. Hoping to regain their sense of camaraderie, they go swimming together in the lagoon, but their feelings of mutual dislike remain and fester.
In the meantime, Simon wanders through the jungle alone. He helps some of the younger boys—whom the older boys have started to call "littluns"—reach fruit hanging from a high branch. He walks deeper into the forest and eventually finds a thick jungle glade, a peaceful, beautiful open space full of flowers, birds, and butterflies. Simon looks around to make sure that he is alone, then sits down to take in the scene, marveling at the abundance and beauty of life that surrounds him.
The personal conflict between Ralph and Jack mirrors the overarching thematic conflict of the novel. The conflict between the two boys brews as early as the election in Chapter 1 but remains hidden beneath the surface, masked by the camaraderie the boys feel as they work together to build a community. In this chapter, however, the conflict erupts into verbal argument for the first time, making apparent the divisions undermining the boys' community and setting the stage for further, more violent developments. As Ralph and Jack argue, each boy tries to give voice to his basic conception of human purpose: Ralph advocates building huts, while Jack champions hunting. Ralph, who thinks about the overall good of the group, deems hunting frivolous. Jack, drawn to the exhilaration of hunting by his bloodlust and desire for power, has no interest in building huts and no concern for what Ralph thinks. But because Ralph and Jack are merely children, they are unable to state their feelings articulately.
At this point in the novel, the conflict between civilization and savagery is still heavily tilted in favor of civilization. Jack, who has no real interest in the welfare of the group, is forced to justify his desire to hunt rather than build huts by claiming that it is for the good of all the boys. Additionally, though most of the boys are more interested in play than in work, they continue to re-create the basic structures of civilization on the island. They even begin to develop their own language, calling the younger children "littluns" and the twins Sam and Eric "Samneric."
Simon, meanwhile, seems to exist outside the conflict between Ralph and Jack, between civilization and savagery. We see Simon's kind and generous nature through his actions in this chapter. He helps Ralph build the huts when the other boys would rather play, indicating his helpfulness, discipline, and dedication to the common good. Simon helps the littluns reach a high branch of fruit, indicating his kindness and sympathy—a sharp contrast to many of the older boys, who would rather torment the littluns than help them. When Simon sits alone in the jungle glade marveling at the beauty of nature, we see that he feels a basic connection with the natural world. On the whole, Simon seems to have a basic goodness and kindness that comes from within him and is tied to his connection with nature. All the other boys, meanwhile, seem to have inherited their ideas of goodness and morality from the external forces of civilization, so that the longer they are away from human society, the more their moral sense erodes. In this regard, Simon emerges as an important figure to contrast with Ralph and Jack. Where Ralph represents the orderly forces of civilization and Jack the primal, instinctual urges that react against such order, Simon represents a third quality—a kind of goodness that is natural or innate rather than taught by human society. In this way, Simon, who cannot be categorized with the other boys, complicates the symbolic structure of Lord of the Flies.
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EU Rulings on Geo-Blocking in Digital Storefronts Will Increase Piracy Rates in the Developing World
By Mark Datysgeld GNSO Councilor at ICANN
For the longest time, it was an insurmountable challenge for those in the developing world to be able to afford to legally consume multimedia products. Prices originally set in Dollars, Euros or Yen often received insufficient adjustments to compensate for lower incomes, something that was compounded by local import or manufacture taxes that did little to alleviate matters. Markets starving to consume modern-day products were faced with an unrealistic pricing structure that was a bad fit for most citizens, especially for young people growing up without access to much capital in an increasingly digital world.
In the 1990s and 2000s, piracy thrived in regions such as LAC, CIS, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, among several others. In countries such as Brazil, it was often more usual to pirate than to purchase official goods when it came to products such as music, films, software, and video games. City centers were (and to a smaller extent still are) overtaken by street vendors selling piles of CDs and DVDs with photocopied covers housed in plastic envelopes and sold at a fraction of the cost found in legitimate stores.
The industry was, by and large, occupied waging intellectual property battles against developed world university students and upholding advantageous sales models such as that of the music CD, never quite looking into the issues of the developing world with a special lens. Solutions in developing countries were mostly focused on extensive police action against those selling the pirated goods, which amounted to little in the way of results, seeing as the demand side of the equation remained unaffected.
In the 2010s, developing markets observed a significant shift towards the consumption of legal goods as the young people grew into productive adults with access to more capital, and two factors can be seen as decisive in this shift: first, digital storefronts with price differentiation for countries with lesser purchasing power were established; second, streaming platforms offering flat fees for a relatively extensive catalogue of multimedia became available. This provided the correct incentives for many consumers not to want to be bothered by the hurdles of consuming pirated content.
In early 2021, the European Commission made a decision that is a subversion of proven best practices that convert informal consumers into legitimate purchasers, and if this act is a sign of their broader intentions, the only possible result is the increase in piracy rates in the developing world. Steam (the largest digital storefront for video games globally) and five major game publishers were fined to the tune of 7.8 million Euros for alleged "geo-blocking" practices. According to the official press release: "The Commission has concluded that the illegal practices of Valve [Steam's parent company] and the five publishers partitioned the EEA market in violation of EU antitrust rules."
In the same press release, the complaint is said to be rooted in: "bilateral agreements and/or concerted practices between Valve and each of the five PC video game publisher implemented by means of geo-blocked Steam activation keys which prevented the activation of certain of these publishers' PC video games outside Czechia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania."
In other words, price differentiation meant to account for different market realities has been equated to geo-blocking, and thus deemed illegal within the EU. There are several reasons why this argument is inconsistent, but foremost is the stretching of the meaning of geo-blocking, which is normally understood to be the practice of stopping a user from being able to view specific content if they are accessing a certain service from a given region or their account is tied to a given region.
In this case, users from different regions are able to see the same products in the storefront, but if the user is purchasing the game from Poland, they will be offered a significantly reduced price in relation to a purchase originating from Germany. Since Steam's activation keys can be gifted and traded between users, this system ensures that a key bought within a lower priced region cannot be activated in one where the product costs more. While this method is not fool-proof, it works well enough for publishers to adjust prices in a way that makes sense for their audience. This is a widespread tactic adopted on the Steam storefront by almost all publishers, being not limited to the 5 that were cherry-picked by the EC to serve as examples.
There is clear correlation between the region cited as having lower prices and reduced local purchasing power. According to the World Bank, the GDP per capita/PPP Int$ in Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Latvia is within the 32-35.000 range, in comparison to Germany's 56.000 or Ireland's 88.000. Forcing the games to be sold at a flat price across the EU fails to acknowledge these disparities. It does not promote fairness, as the bloc does not have a homogenous economic reality.
On the aftermath of the ruling, a statement from the EC's Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, in charge of competition policy, is of particular note: "The videogame industry in Europe is thriving, and it is now worth over € 17 billion. Today's sanctions against the 'geo-blocking' practices of Valve and five PC video game publishers serve as a reminder that under EU competition law, companies are prohibited from contractually restricting cross-border sales. Such practices deprive European consumers of the benefits of the EU Digital Single Market and of the opportunity to shop around for the most suitable offer in the EU."
The question that follows from Vestager's statement is: shop around how? Users can go to a different storefront altogether if they so desire, but how is this supposed to take place within the system of a single storefront in a manner that, as described by Vestager, would create more consumer choice? That proposition does not add up. What is being forced into practice is that users in the developing world will need to pay the same price for digital goods as those in the developed world, without sensitivity to their local reality. This is a significant step back from decades of progress in terms of creating a fair market where users can make legitimate purchases.
With the EU's growing appetite for the regulation of digital goods and several new regulations in the horizon, it is important to observe this event as an example of what is to come. Under the name of standardization of laws within the bloc, regions where there is less purchasing power will be more often forced into making choices between not having access to unreasonably priced goods or pirating that content. Many will choose the piracy route, and no amount of digital rights management will be able to stop it. Hopefully, other nations and blocs will not follow the EU's example, or we might be headed yet again for very difficult times in the commerce of digital goods.
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