If you're a fan of Japanese cuisine, then you've definitely heard of the delicious octopus appetizers takoyaki. These deep fried umami blasted balls of goodness are not only excellent from the restaurant, but are also very easy and fun to make. So, how do you make them? We found some of the best takoyaki pans on the market and selected the top picks just for you.
If you're looking to make some delicious takoyaki, this is your best bet. The electric Japanese takoyaki pan does it all without having to turn on your stove. Simply mix up your favorite takoyaki batter, fill the preheated cups, and watch your delicious morsels come to life!
What's great about this takoyaki pan is that it is entirely self sufficient. That' means you can make delicious takoyaki without the need of a stove top. The electric takoyaki pan is great for US 110 V electric volts and has just the right amount of heat to keep your appetizers crispy and cooked.
Bear in mind, cleaning is a little more difficult with this pan since the device is electronic. However, for the price and the amount of balls you can cook at once, it is definitely an excellent product.
For those of you who cook on portable butane stoves, this is the takoyaki pan for you! The base of this pan has grooves that lock the pan directly into place for butane stoves. This allows for perfectly even cooking and for securing your appetizers in case of nudges and bumps.
The aluminum alloy pan is coated with a non-stick surface, which is perfect for the takoyaki to cook without having broken appetizers and misshapen balls. It's so easy, the whole family can join in on the cooking fun!
The pan itself is easy to clean and can be placed on the bottom rack of the dishwashers as well. Overall, it's an excellent pan for those that have a butane stove or gas stove top for cooking.
If you're planning on cooking a serious batch of takoyyaki appetizers all at once, you're in for a treat. This electric takoyaki pan is powered with 800W of fury and can cook up to 24 delicious takoyaki appetizers all at the same time! That means you're getting twice the amount of food with half the time.
The electric pan is coated with a non-stick surface made from fluorin resin making cooking the takoyaki easy and 100% food-grade and safe. If you are in the US and using 110V, this pan works the best for that voltage. However, during our testing, we did notice that the outer four holes didn't cook as fast as the center ones, so be sure to give those a little extra time.
In order to clean the pan, you can wipe it clean with a damp cloth. Overall, this is an excellent takoyaki pan for the price and functionality.
Making takoyaki can be a fun feat in the kitchen with the family or just on your own. This pan is the perfect addition to your kitchen arsenal if you want to start cooking your favorite Japanese appetizer at home.
One of the benefits this pan offers in the wooden handle. This ensure that you have a cool grip on the pan while cooking. Some other cast iron pans do not have a grip, so you have to use extra pot holders while cooking with those. Even though this is a smaller batch pan, the balls are more likely to cook evenly since there is less surface area to heat up.
This cast iron takoyaki pan is definitely an excellent addition to your Japanese cooking. However, since the pan does not have a non-stick coating, we recomend using extra oil to keep the pan slick and prevent your takoyaki from sticking.
Takoyaki is one of the most delicious traditional Japanese appetizers to eat. However, since they are fried in delicious goodness, they taste best when they are cooked fresh. Now, you can enjoy these delicious delicacies in the comfort of your own home with these specialized takoyaki pans.
Made from cast-aluminum, these pans are lightweight, durable, and heat up extremely quickly. The pan is also coated with teflon making it easy to remove the takoyaki when they are finished cooking. Also, there is a plastic coating on the handle, which makes it safe to touch when cooking. The pan itself holds up to 12 balls at a time, so you can make a serving for two quick and easy. Washing this pan is easy as it fits in the bottom rack of the dishwasher.
Overall, we love this simple, easy-to-use, and versatile takoyaki pan. We know you and your family will, too!
Riding solo and have a craving for delicious takoyaki? This is the pan for you. Now, you can make the perfect serving size of takoyaki in the comfort of your own home. This sturdy cast-aluminum pan services up 7 delicious takoyaki balls easy as you like!
One of the best features fo this takoyaki pan is the 7 1/2" handle. This ergonomic plastic handle keeps cool to the touch so you don't have to worry about accidental burns when handling. The cast-aluminum construction is lightweight and heats quickly. Also, as an added bonus, the pan includes some standard recipes to cook.
All in all, this is an excellent pan for cooking takoyaki. If you're planning to cook smaller amounts or just want to make a quick snack, this is the pan for you.
For those of you who need a little extra heat when cooking your takoyaki, you've found the right pan. This gas-powered pan is one of the most powerful on the market. Powered by butane cartridges, this pan gets super hot in all the places you need for even cooking.
With accommodations for up to 20 takoyaki balls, you can easily mass produce your favorite Japanese appetizers quickly and efficiently. Also, the non-stick coating on the aluminum die-cast pan makes it easy to cook and remove the takoyaki without breaking them.
Just a forewarning: the manual is in Japanese. However, the use is pretty easy and the machine takes standard butane cartridges purchased separately. Overall, this is an excellent high-powered takoyaki sysytem that work for at home or even in a commercial kitchen.
If you're planning a party or gathering and want to add a little flair to your event, this is the perfect pan for you. Now, you can make takoyaki cooking the center of your party's activities with this all-in-one takoyaki pan kit.
The kit includes 5 brushes, a brush, a kettle, a lid, and 12 holes for cooking takoyaki and any other round pastries. The machine runs on 100V so this works well for US residents. The machine is pretty sturdy and doesn't move around easily in case of accidental nudges. The grill pan is non-stick and easy to wash with a damp cloth.
We know you'll totally fall in love with this takoyaki pan. It's got everything you need to make your favorite Japanese appetizer in the comfort of your onw home.


A behind-the-scenes look at San Diego Comic-Con, the world's largest comic book convention, and the fans who attend every year.
Emmanuelle arrives in Las Vegas where she is abducted and asked by the military to help them with a device that allows people to travel to alternate realities.
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Desert plants to be put to the test for aviation biofuel production
By Darren Quick
Desert plants to be put to the...
The Salicornia is one species of halophyte that is a promising feedstock for biofuel production (Photo: SBRC)
The pilot project that will test the potential of halophytes for biofuel production (Image: SBRC)
Whenever the topic of plant-derived biofuels is raised, the issue of turning valuable arable land over to the task of growing feedstock is generally not far behind. A discovery by the Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium (SRBC) that desert plants fed by seawater can produce biofuel more efficiently than other well-known feedstocks could help alleviate such concerns.
The SRBC, which is affiliated with the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi, is receiving funding from Boeing, Etihad Airways and Honeywell UOP to develop and commercialize a sustainable biofuel that emits 50 to 80 percent less carbon through its lifecycle than fossil fuels. Plants called halophytes, which are highly salt tolerant, could be the answer.
SRBC researchers found that halophyte seeds contain oil suitable for biofuel production and that the entire shrub-like plant can be turned into biofuel more effectively than many other feedstocks.
To test their findings, the SRBC team will create a test ecosystem over the coming year that will see two crops of halophytes planted in the sandy soil found in Abu Dhabi. The test site will use waste seawater from a fish and shrimp farm to nourish the plants, with the water then flowing into a field of mangroves before being returned to the ocean.
"The UAE has become a leader in researching desert land and seawater to grow sustainable biofuel feedstocks, which has potential applications in other parts of the world," says Dr. Alejandro Rios, Director of the SBRC. "This project can have a global impact, since 97 percent of the earth's water is ocean and 20 percent of the earth's land is desert."
Source: Masdar Institute
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Darren's love of technology started in primary school with a Nintendo Game & Watch Donkey Kong (still functioning) and a Commodore VIC 20 computer (not still functioning). In high school he upgraded to a 286 PC, and he's been following Moore's law ever since. This love of technology continued through a number of university courses and crappy jobs until 2008, when his interests found a home at New Atlas.
BigGoofyGuy January 24, 2014 11:26 AM
I think that is totally cool and very green. It would be neat to 'grow' ones own fuel.
anobium January 24, 2014 01:32 PM
Interesting plant, Salicornia. You can eat it as Marsh Samphire or St Pierre in France. One of its common names was 'glasswort' as it was once burned in large quantities to produce soda lime used in glass manufacture.
brickandfanal January 24, 2014 01:59 PM
Each time they will irrigate with salty sea water, the evaporation is going to increase salt concentration in the soil, slowly transforming soil into a solid crust of solid salt desert, where nothing grow. Remember that the mangrove mention in the article, never encounter water more salty than sea water, and many time with a mix of fresh water from land. But with that contraption, they will receive a mix of highly salty water, that seawater will dissolve somewhat in seawater. Mangrove is probably not tolerant enough to survive in this harsh condition on long term. Where the freshwater mention in the article is coming from in the first place? From desalting plan that use oil to operate? Humm. . .
DavidMills January 24, 2014 02:08 PM
This is the kind of development that is not accounted for by those predicting the future of global warming, the unexpected development of a new source for energy that has the potential to be a game changer. (Compare to corn, clearly one of the stupidest sources for biofuel ever). Now, if we can only make the change quickly enough to photovoltaic, new batteries, green biofuels, and fracking geothermal!
ezeflyer January 24, 2014 02:50 PM
Would the mangroves be destroyed to produce biomass as in #6? Does the salinity of the water increase? Is the shrimp and fish operation done without dangerous chemicals, hormones, GE shrimp and fish?
Luis Serralha January 24, 2014 03:01 PM
very difficult to grow even with plenty salt water
Jason Unwin January 24, 2014 03:35 PM
Sounds good but how much energy will go INTO producing enough fuel to be worth the effort? It may take more energy and time than just staying with normal fuels.
Don Duncan January 24, 2014 04:01 PM
Oil is cheap there (UAE). Why are they trying to find an alternative to oil? If they show us how to replace oil with biofuels, their economy would crash.
Carmelmike January 24, 2014 04:15 PM
I am pleased to see this concept being moved forward, although less pleased to see that no mention is being made of where it originated: The Seawater Foundation. This was started as a way to sequester carbon in sandy coastal regions of the world by a man named Carl Hodges (who had his start in the early 1960's working on the original papers warning of possible global warming due to increased levels of CO2 in the atmosphere). Additionally, it was the Seawater Foundation which worked with Boeing to get approval for the use of salicornia-based fuels in their planes. Seawater Foundation started two pilot plants in Eritrea and Baja California to explore the practicality of these concepts. I have to assume that Dr. Rios was involved in the Baja project and has now moved it to Abu Dhabi...I hope with Dr. Hodges' good wishes.
VirtualGathis January 24, 2014 04:29 PM
I think this is interesting, but the annual production would never compare to algae production. The only advantage I can see to this setup is that it is easier to keep the saltwater constantly circulating rather than merely dumping it into an open vat. Constant circulation would combat the salinity increase from evaporation. Keeping the water covered would prevent evaporation from becoming a problem as the evaporation would return to the tank. An interesting question: would the run off be sufficiently higher salinity to operate a saline "battery" like this one: http://www.earthtechling.com/2011/04/stanford-salt-water-battery-a-better-design/
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The Grove Resort & Spa just achieved another development milestone when it opened the $16-million Surfari Water Park on March 1. The new amenity spans seven of the resort's 106 acres and can accommodate up to 1,000 people.
As part of the initial rollout, the water park included two water slides, a winding lazy river, and a dual-rider surf simulator. Later in the month, Surfari introduced a toddler play area and the park's on-site restaurant, Longboard Bar & Grill, opened a month later. The addition of this new on-site amenity will mark the introduction of The Grove's signature recreation experience, helping to cement the resort as one of Metro Orlando's top family-centric destination hotels located just three miles from the Western Way entrance of Walt Disney World in Winter Garden.
Surfari Water Park becomes the Grove's final piece to the already extensive lineup of activities, amenities, and all-suite residential-style accommodations that first rolled out in March 2017 during the resort's initial opening phase. It's quite a turnaround for a property that fell victim of the financial crisis and sat unfinished and vacant until Westport Capital Partners and BTI Partners of South Florida acquired the property for pennies on the dollar.
Set on its own parcel of the 106-acre resort and separate from The Grove's three existing swimming pools where a more subdued experience can be enjoyed, Surfari Water Park is designed as an all-day destination exclusively for hotel guests. With multiple options for sliding, surfing, swimming, and dining, Surfari gives Grove visitors another reason to hang back from area theme parks for a day of fun in the sun: both children and adults can shoot through Surfari's two twisting tube slides, challenge friends to catch a wave on the dual-rider surf simulator, float through nearly 700 feet of winding lazy river, or, for the smallest guests, splish and splash in the specially designated toddler zone.
The Grove's continued expansion also includes the addition of more than 280 suites to the resort's existing inventory of two and three-bedroom accommodations. With comparable layouts and upgraded finishes, this new group of suites, like the others, offers all the best aspects of home: ample space and privacy for families or groups; private bedrooms and bathrooms; living and dining areas; full kitchens; screened balconies; and full-size washers and dryers. All accommodations at The Grove provide access to the resort's full breadth of activities and amenities, including The Springs swimming pools with a zero-entry area; the full-service Escape Spa and fitness center; kayaking, fishing, and paddle boats at Lake Austin Pier; children's activities center and dedicated recreation team; five dining and drink venues; and Surfari Water Park.
The 878-unit Grove Resort & Spa Orlando is owned by a joint venture between certain affiliates of Westport Capital Partners and BTI Partners, with BTI Partners as the development partner. Houston, Texas-based Benchmark, a global hospitality company, will manage the property as part of its signature Benchmark Resorts & Hotels portfolio.
The condo-hotel currently is working on its third phase of construction, according to BTI Partners, and expected to have 585 two- and three-bedroom condo units available for sale and occupancy by the end of April.
The Grove Resort & Spa Orlando opened its first phase in March 2017 as an expansive 106-acre hotel destination located just minutes from the west entrance of Walt Disney World. Set on Lake Austin and amid a portion of Central Florida's conservation grounds, the resort is a sanctuary from the boisterous tourist corridor just minutes from the busiest theme park in the work.
Nearly 300 of The Grove's 878 residential-style suites are currently open – each with a full kitchen, full-size washer and dryer, multiple bathrooms, and screened patio – offering guests all the comforts of home, while the resort's hearty collection of amenities deliver the luxuries of a full-service resort.


The Vertica deployment realized an ROI of 270 percent with payback in only three months' time.
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After 11 seasons in the NHL and over 300 games on his resume, Chris Mason is headed to Italy.
That was the word out of Ritten on Tuesday, as the team announced it had signed Mason for the 2013-14 season.
Mason, 37, spent last year in Nashville but struggled as the backup to Pekka Rinne, appearing in 11 games while posting a ghastly 1-7-1 record with an 3.73 GAA and .873 save percentage.
That said, he's not too far removed from his best days in the NHL.
Following his time with the Blues, Mason bounced from Atlanta to Winnipeg before landing back in Nashville, the club he broke in with during the 1998-99 season.
This will be the second noteworthy European excursion of his career. Mason previously played with Valerenga of the Norwegian league during the 2004-05 lockout, capturing league MVP honors.
Of note, he won't be the only ex-NHL goalie playing in Italy's Serie A next year as Andrew Raycroft is currently playing with Hockey Milano Rossoblu.
The New York Islanders have re-signed goalie Kevin Poulin to a one-year, two-way deal, the team announced on Monday.
Poulin, 23, has appeared in 21 games with the Isles since being selected in the fifth round of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.
His career on Long Island started well — he went 4-2-1 with a 2.44 GAA and .924 save percentage in his rookie year — but has flatlined lately. He had an average 2011-12 (2-4-0, 3.04 GAA, .907 save percentage) and an equally mediocre 2013 (1-3, 3.02 GAA, .893 save percentage).
That said, the former QMJHL Victoriaville standout will have a shot to be Evgeni Nabokov's full-time backup in 2013-14.
With Rick DiPietro gone and Anders Nilsson coming off a so-so year with AHL Bridgeport, the door is open for Poulin to be the full-time No. 2.
That said, GM Garth Snow could opt for a more experienced presence behind Nabokov.
The Islanders aren't exactly pressed for cap space (approximately $22 million away from the ceiling) and there are a number of veteran goalies still available: Jose Theodore, Chris Mason and Johan Hedberg, to name a few.
Chris Mason occasionally sports a breathtaking beard, but his netminding was downright hairy during the 2013 season.
With that in mind, Nashville Predators GM David Poile told the Tennessean that the team will look for a different backup behind $7 million starter Pekka Rinne for the 2013-14 campaign.
Rinne's first season as one of the NHL's richest netminders was disappointing, with a 15-16-8 record and a .910 save percentage (compared to his .920 career average). Still, his numbers look fantastic compared to Mason's 1-7-1 record and abysmal .878 save percentage.
Those stats make it tough to fathom the 37-year-old playing in the NHL next season, but at minimum, he probably won't be with the Predators.
The crop of backups isn't too promising, with Jose Theodore, Mathieu Garon, Ray Emery and Nikolai Khabibulin among the most notable potential targets.
Nashville might also turn to 22-year-old prospect Magnus Hellberg, although Poile said he'd rather give the big Swede another year to develop.
Odds are high that the new guy's numbers will look better either way, although few could top his facial hair.
The Carolina Hurricanes are in discussions with goalie Dan Ellis about a contract extension, according to Chip Alexander of the Raleigh News & Observer.
Ellis, 32, told Alexander the two parties are "talking back and forth" about a new deal, but made it clear there was no offer on the table.
"[A] holding pattern," is how Ellis described it, adding that he'd like to return for 2013-14.
The journeyman netminder signed in Carolina last season on a one-year, $800,000 deal, primarily to serve as a veteran backup to starter Cam Ward.
Ward suffered a season-ending knee injury in early March, forcing Ellis into the No. 1 gig. While he wasn't terrible, the numbers reflect a goalie thrust into a position he probably wasn't suited for, playing in front of a slumping team.
Ellis went 6-8-2 with a .906 save percentage and 3.13 GAA, occasionally splitting duties with third-stringer Justin Peters.
It'll be interesting to see if the 'Canes bring Ellis back. The goaltending market figures to be pretty deep this summer, with the backup (or, potential backup) goaltender market projecting to feature Ray Emery, Jose Theodore, Chris Mason, Mathieu Garon, Jason Labarbera and Anton Khudobin.
Pekka Rinne has been a solid netminder on a bad team this season. At the same time, he took a step backwards after being nominated for the Vezina Trophy in 2011-12.
On Saturday, Predators coach Barry Trotz offered an explanation for Rinne's decline in 2013 while reporting that Chris Mason will make his second consecutive start.
"He's had a bit of a nagging thing all year. It just needs to settle down a little bit, and a little bit of reset too. There's no sense to risk anything," Trotz told The Tennessean. "We're going to have some exit meetings. Pekka has to get away and heal a little bit and then we'll start that process. You need a little time away for a second here.
Injured or not, Rinne is trying to view this season as a learning experience.
"I'm just trying to figure out what you can do better and how you can be more helpful," Rinne said.
He's only been credited with 15 wins in 43 games this season, but the Predators have been one of the worst teams offensively in 2013.
"All year, we let him down all year," Predators captain Shea Weber recently said of Rinne.
The silver lining is that the Predators do have a number of talented youngsters that could take a step forward next season. They also have a fair amount of cap space, should they wish to do something bold over the summer.


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Life Is Too Short. Or Is It?
Liah Greenfeld, Ph.D., writes that medical advances in prolonging life may have unintended consequences. She offers as evidence the fate of her parents:
My mother, who will be 85 next month and whose mind is still sharper than a surgical scalpel, repeats now and then: one must die in time. She was a doctor, she watched many deaths. She believes that the ability of medical science in developed countries to prolong life into the 80s and beyond is nothing to celebrate and, in fact, actively contributes to unnecessary suffering. My mother is tired of life – and since my father's death eleven years ago, in 2002, has often wished she were dead. They were married for 53 years, with his death meaningful life ended for her – there was nothing to live for anymore. His death – sudden, on the operation table, at 75 — was a terrible loss for all of us. For two years I, his eldest daughter, 48 when this happened, was overwhelmed by grief. Yet, before that, I had been consciously happy, that is, I realized that my life was a truly happy one, full to the brim of love and passionate interest in the surrounding world, which make life worth living. My father knew that he was going to die: we have discovered this in his diary. He was a doctor too, and a very good doctor, in contrast to the young and eager to cut surgeons who operated on him. He knew that, given the regimen of medications he was on, if operated, he would die of the loss of blood; his doctors, who suggested an exploratory surgery, missed this essential detail. Signing the consent form, my father was, therefore, consciously signing his death warrant. He was a man interested in so many things, always excited about something, always full of projects. In fact, at the time of his death he was learning a new language. And he was afraid of dying, as he wrote in the last entry of his diary, adding, though, but can life after 75 be considered life? I understand now that he died, as my mother says, "in time."
After his death, my mother suddenly became very old. Her health drastically deteriorated. She started dying and has been dying for eleven years.
She ends by asking: "When is the time? Shouldn't we at least think of this before further advancing our ability to prolong physical existence, without at the same time being able to fill the additional years with meaning?"
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Aamir invites who's who of Bollywood for big bash tonight
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Aamir Khan is hosting an exclusive party for who's who from the fraternity at his house tonight for a very special person. A very tasteful evening has been planned for multiple Oscar winner music composer Gustavo Santaolalla and Aamir has personally invited the crème de la creme of the industry. And yes he also called SRK.
Gustavo Santaolalla is an Argentine musician, who has won 2 Oscars and 13 Grammys till date. He has given music for The Insider (Al Pacino), Babel, The Motorcycle Diaries and Brokeback Mountain. In 2008, Santaolalla composed the soundtrack for the Louis Vuitton film, Where Will Life Take You?
The talented music director is now composing music for Kiran Rao's Dhobi Ghat and is travelling across Mumbai to see the city and get a feel of the city. Mumbai city plays an important role in Dhobi Ghat.
Gustavo has been in the city from last one week and is leaving on Sunday. Before he leaves, Aamir wanted him to meet few of his friends from the industry.
Aamir has invited Shah Rukh Khan (to which SRK promptly responded that he is out of town but would have loved to come) Salman Khan, Karan Johar, Saif, Kareena, Ranbir, Katrina, Imtiaz Ali, Anurag Basu, Anurag Kashyap, Imran Khan, Raj Kumar Hirani and his wife, Rakyesh Om Prakash Mehra and his wife, Ronnie and Zarina, Kunal Kohli and his wife, Shantanu Moitra, Swanand Kirkire and Shankar Ehsaan and Loy.
Aamir has also invited Kareena Kapoor and Katrina Kaif. They want him to host another party once they are back because they both are not in town.
This will be one of the biggest parties hosted by Aamir Khan in recent times.
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A powerful force is propelling economic development across the Region, and for the most part, it's completely invisible.
It's touching on nearly every aspect of what helps build strong communities: housing, small business, quality of life, commercial business, large industry, and municipalities, to name a few.
NITCO's high-speed broadband Gigabit service in Northwest Indiana, made possible by building and expanding fiber optic and communication data networks, is paving the way for significant and healthy growth in both business-to-business and interpersonal communications.
"It's all about reliability and customer service," said Tom Carroll, Senior Vice President of Sales at NITCO. "The fiber optic product we are building is changing the communication landscape for the better in Northwest Indiana, and the relationships we have developed to keep the momentum going are just outstanding."
Particularly as it relates to municipalities, NITCO now has operating agreements with the Town of Chesterton and the City of East Chicago to manage and operate their fiber optic networks, creating what Carroll said is the most reliable and efficient service available today.
"Our uptime is scary good," he said. "The amount of downtime we might have is measured in mere minutes per year, so this is why municipalities, and now even developers who are building new subdivisions, want to work with NITCO to set their communities up for success."
The fiber-optic networks in cities have improved communication among municipal services, too. Think high-speed service and access for the fire station, the pumping station at the water department, city hall, police department, and more.
Even more exciting – NITCO has figured out a way to save taxpayers money.
"The City of East Chicago owns its own fiber network. We partner with them to utilize any excess capacity so we can sell service to local businesses, schools and soon residents." Carroll said. "But the more exciting part about this is that we're also then expanding these networks for them, and giving them a revenue share to offset any tax dollars needed to own their own network. It's just a win-win."
Businesses who are looking to relocate to small and mid-sized cities are many times making fiber-optic networks one of their top requirements. Likewise, Carroll said, municipalities who have fiber networks have a better chance of retaining their longstanding, loyal businesses because they can now offer them access to superior communications options.
"It's to the point now where I have developers coming to me before they even approach city and county planners because they want to be able to say they'll offer their community residents fiber," Carroll said. "We work with developers to plan for putting fiber in the ground at the same time they're planning for water and sewer lines."
NITCO is staying on the forefront of advocacy, legislation, and grant opportunities to continue to expand fiber networks across the Region, and into rural areas as well.
"The state realized that there is a huge need, and finally dedicated about $100 million in grants to build fiber networks in the most rural parts where the private sector cannot sustainably go alone," he said. "It costs $50,000 a mile to build fiber infrastructure, so that's $150,000 to build just three miles of network. In a rural area, that might reach one house. Even if you're signing that one house up for internet and phone service, you can see how it would take a very long time to recover the cost of that capital investment. That's where the grant money will come in."
And NITCO intends to pursue grant opportunities at the state and federal level.
The Federal Communications Commission is about to launch a new program as well called the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF), which will put out $20.4 billion in two phases toward this effort.
"The internet is no longer a luxury, it is a necessity," Carrol said. "Providing people with everything they need to succeed means that we succeeded as a company, and then individual families succeed, and then communities succeed, and so on. It's a ripple effect."
NITCO is a leader in high-speed broadband Gigabit service in Northwest Indiana. For over 20 years, NITCO has provided gigabit-capable fiber services to customers including Porter County Government, School corporations in Porter and Jasper County, and Fair Oaks Dairy Adventure. NITCO is currently designing and operating fiber networks for municipalities in northwest Indiana. With over 9,000 residential and 1,000 business customers NITCO is growing by making significant investments in infrastructure in Porter, Lake, Jasper, and Newton counties. For more information, visit nitco.com.
(This article was originally posted on the NWILife website.)
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By Raphielle JohnsonJan 21, 2014, 8:00 AM EST
Up and Down and Unfair: Embiid, Wiggins and Kansas in 2014 (Grantland)
Saturday's matchup between Oklahoma State and Kansas proved to be one of the nation's best games to this point in the season, with the Jayhawks hanging on for the two-point victory at Allen Fieldhouse. While Andrew Wiggins was quiet for much of the afternoon the same can't be said of Joel Embiid, who was outstanding in the middle for the Jayhawks. This story captures the entire day and Kansas' two freshmen quite well.
Bruce Pearl's post-coaching life, Richard Pitino and his father and more (Sports Illustrated)
One question that more than a few college basketball fans have asked recently is when would former Tennessee head coach Bruce Pearl return to the coaching ranks. Now working at ESPN during the season, Pearl discusses life after Tennessee and his thoughts on a return to the sideline.
Air Force has a straight shooter in Tre' Coggins (Denver Post)
The Air Force Falcons have gotten off to a 3-3 start to Mountain West play, a bit of a surprise considering the fact that Dave Pilipovich's team was expected to be one of the league's weaker teams. One reason for the start: sophomore point guard Tre' Coggins, who has been one of the Mountain West's best perimeter shooters to this point in the season.
Clemson basketball wants to avoid getting road-tripped (Charleston Post and Courier)
While much has been made of the play of Duke and North Carolina, one of the positive surprises in ACC play has been the Clemson Tigers. Brad Brownell's team is off to a 4-1 start to conference play, and with a game at Pittsburgh in front of them the Tigers are hoping to earn a quality road victory.
UMass off to blazing start under Calipari pupil Derek Kellogg (USA Today)
No. 12 UMass has survived some close calls this season, but the fact of the matter is that the Minutemen have done enough to win 16 of their first 17 games. Leading the way is head coach Derek Kellogg, whose team is currently ranked ahead of the team coached by his college head coach, John Calipari.
Oglesby now key contributor for Hawkeyes (Quad City Times)
One reason why No. 10 Iowa was able to whip Minnesota 94-73 on Sunday afternoon was the first-half performance of guard Josh Oglesby, who scored 14 of his 17 points in the opening stanza. Playing with greater confidence, Oglesby's become a key reserve for the Hawkeyes, who are ranked in the top ten of the AP poll for the first time since 2002.
Creighton's McDermott embracing return to school (City of Basketball Love)
Creighton senior forward Doug McDermott returned to the place where his junior season came to an end, with the Bluejays falling to Duke in the NCAA tournament's Round of 32. McDermott very well could have decided that he was ready for the next level but instead he returned to Omaha for his senior season, and McDermott's happy that he did.
St. John's lineups: a little bit of everything leads to nothing (Big Apple Buckets)
St. John's has struggled mightily in Big East, as they're off to an 0-5 start that has left fans frustrated. One point of frustration for some has been the numerous lineups that head coach Steve Lavin has used, with the thought being that the lack of continuity has led to the team's struggles. John Templon of Big Apple Buckets broke down the many different lineup combinations used by the Red Storm this season.
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Bhutan, a mysterious kingdom nestled in the heart of the Himalayas, is no ordinary place. Here, chilies make up whole dishes, the rice is red and you get fined for not wearing your national dress.
A fascinating land heavy with deep mythology, where giant protective penises are painted on the walls of houses and ancient traditions and modern complexes intertwine seamlessly. It is a country of surprises terraced by lush rice paddies, pine forests and dotted with sparkling mountain lakes.
Bhutan is one of the most untouched kingdoms on our planet, with the doors open to only a small number of travellers each year. Now is your chance to mingle amongst the elders chewing on red beetle nut, the creak and whirr of spinning prayer wheels and the flap of fluttering prayer flags, your senses are overloaded. Bhutan will truly encapsulate you.
Day 1 - Arrive Paro
Welcome to Bhutan! Upon arrival at Paro International Airport, you will be met and transferred to your hotel. Venture out for our welcome blessing and spiritual cleansing with a High Lama at their heritage home or inside the monastery. Be welcomed into Bhutan's warm hospitality as you witness a sacred song and dance ceremony at a heritage home. Visit the National Museum of Bhutan which focusses on the growing importance of cultural and heritage preservation in Bhutan both for the Bhutanese people and for sharing it with others. Continue to Rinpung Dzong, a Buddhist monastery and fortress which is perched on a hill above Paro valley. (D)
Overnight at Tashi Namgay Resort or similar
Day 2 - Fly to Trashigang
After breakfast this morning, you will be transferred to the airport for your flight to Trashigang, approx. 1 hour (included). In the far east of Bhutan, on the bank of Gamri Chhu River lies Trashigang, the country's largest district. This town is also the main marketplace for the semi nomadic people of Merak and Sakteng, whose costumes are unique in Bhutan.
On arrival, you will visit Karma Thegsum Dhechenling Monastery. Unlike other monasteries which are usually built with concrete, Karma Thegsum Dhechenling is built in the traditional Bhutanese style, with a structure mainly of carved wood. All the timber used in the construction was painstakingly chosen by Rinpoche and then seasoned for a year before use. Exquisitely designed in the traditional Bhutanese style, the monastery has beautifully carved beams and pillars with the mantras "Om Mani Padme Hung" and "Karmapa Chenno" inscribed on them. All the doors and window frames are also carved with auspicious patterns. The monks' quarters can accommodate up to several hundred monks.
Participate in a traditional Butter Lamp offering before enjoying lunch at the monastery. Buddhist consider ignorance, lack of wisdom and lack of knowledge as the main source of all our problems. The offering of butter lamp is the offering of wisdom and light of knowledge to eradicate darkness or ignorance.
Following lunch, visit the Muenselling Institute for the Visually Impaired before reaching your hotel. (B,L,D)
Overnight Lingkhar Lodge or similar
Day 3 – Merak
This morning you will journey to Merak Village, approx. 6hrs. Merak is home to the nomadic Brokpas who can be easily spotted as they wear different costumes unlike other Bhutanese. Most distinct is their black felt hat with five fringes protruding from it known as tsipee cham woven from yak hair. The fringes help them as gutters for the rainwater and the hat serves as a cushion on their head, while carrying heavy loads. They also wear a vest made of deerskin or yak calf hide with the furs intact to provide warmth.
Here you will experience a traditional Yak dance by the villagers. The Yak dance is said to have two meanings. One version exhibits the legendary tale of Thoepa Gali, the God of Livestock, while the other version says the dance is performed as a display in respect of the yak, the principal means of livelihood for the community.
Explore Merak village as you soak in this almost time frozen and traditional way of life. Enjoy sitting around a bonfire this evening as you listen to stories of Yeti sightings shared by the local Brokpas. Dinner this evening is shared in a family farm home where you will spend the night. (B,L,D)
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Day 4 – Sakteng Village
Today is all about exploring this incredible wilderness on foot. Set off as you trek towards Sakteng Village (approx. 8hrs). This hike is a truly incredible natural and cultural journey. A region that only opened 30 years ago, and even today, only a limited numbers of researchers and travellers have access to walk this trail. Your path lies within the protected area of the Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary which is home to a diversity of Himalayan terrestrial ecosystems, combining alpine meadows, temperate forests and warm broad leaf forests. It is one of the most scenic pastoral valleys in Bhutan providing further glimpses into the semi nomadic lifestyle and culture of the region.
This trek is of moderate difficulty with a distance of around 29km. The first half of the trek, until you reach Nachungla Pass (4153m) is an incline. This pass is where the most yeti sightings have been recorded in the country. It splits the only two villages in the protected land preserve created by His Majesty to protect the potential livelihood of the yeti.
Enjoy lunch at Nangchungla Pass, 4200m, taking in the incredible views of the rolling valleys below and snow capped peaks around you before reaching Sakteng village where you will explore the town before reaching your next farm house. (B,L,D)
Day 5 – Trashigang
Today you will transfer by road back to Trashigang (approx. 5hrs) where you will check into your hotel on arrival. The remainder of the day is yours at leisure. (B,L,D)
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Day 6 – Mongar
This morning following breakfast, visit the Trashigang Dzong before you transfer to Mongar (approx. 4hrs). On arrival, enjoy a picnic lunch before visiting the Mongar Dzong. Although more recently built (1930), it was constructed the same way as all earlier dzongs, without plans or nails.
However, unlike the earlier dzongs, that are located in strategic positions, Mongar Dzong is located on a small gently sloping area just above the town. A visit to Mongar Dzong demonstrates how traditional Bhutanese architecture has continued to thrive through the centuries. (B,L,D)
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Day 7 - Bumthang
Today is a travel day as you make your way towards Bumthang (approx. 7hrs). Your journey continues winding through rugged terrain with spectacular views on both sides of the road. The seven-hour journey passes through Ura village in Bumthang and across the highest motorable pass in the Kingdom, the Thrumshingla pass, at 4000m. Enjoy a picnic lunch enroute before arriving in the afternoon. (B,L,D)
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Day 8 – Bumthang
This morning you will visit the Jakar Dzong or the "Castle of the White Bird" which dominates the Chamkhar valley and overlooks the town. Constructed in 1549, by the Tibetan Lam Nagi Wangchuk, the Dzong played an important role as the fortress of defence of the whole eastern Dzongkhags. It also became the seat of the first king of Bhutan.
Participate in an audience with one of Bhutan's most highly regarded spiritual masters where he will introduce you to Buddhism and basic meditation practices. You will the continue on a pilgrimage into some of Bhutan's most sacred monasteries. During this pilgrimage, we will learn about the spiritual history of the locations and view some of Bhutan's most precious, sacred treasures.
Enjoy a traditional lunch at Dorjibi Farm Home before visiting the nearby weaving centre followed by a visit to the Bumthang Honey and Beer centre. At the Beer and Honey Centre, learn the history of how locals took up these practices. Tour and witness the demonstration of honey harvest and beer tasting. The most popular beer in Bumthang is a wheat beer named Red Panda. Previously, Bhutanese did not practice honey farming because it was believed that it killed the bees, but modern practices have allowed for the Bhutanese to take on this practice (B,L,D)
Day 9 – Fly to Paro
Transfer to the airport this morning for your included flight to Paro (approx. 30 mins) where you will then transfer to the country's capital, Thimphu. On arrival, visit the Buddha Dordenma Statue which is perched on a hill overlooking the city. This massive, golden Buddha holds an invisible secret: Unbeknownst to many people viewing the statue, they aren't actually looking at one Buddha, they're looking at 125,000 of them.
Inside of Thimphu's 169 foot Buddha Dordenma statue, there are 125,000 miniature Buddhas encapsulated inside of its enlightened bronze chest, ranging from 8 to 12 inches tall. This means that in Thimphu, which has a population of around 100,000, there are more Buddhas than human beings. The statue fulfils two prophecies. The first, foreseen by yogi Sonam Sangpo, is that a Buddhist statue would be built in the region to "bestow blessings, peace, and happiness to the whole world." In addition, the statue is said to have been mentioned by Guru Padmasambhava, widely referred to as the "second Buddha," in the eighth century.
Depart on foot along a local hiking trail to Debsi. This is a fairly easy trail with some of the best views of south Thimphu. It is a local trail with few to no tourists. Embrace sweeping views of the capital combined deep forest walks.
Participate in a cooking lesson with Aum Kesang at her forested home. Meet Aum Kesang Choden, Lt. Colonel (Retd), one of the first two women Police Officers in Bhutan. A self-taught Bhutanese chef who is the pioneer in Bhutan for preserving and promoting traditional Bhutanese Food Culture. Join her at her forested cabin home to learn how to cook some popular Bhutanese dishes and taste them on her peaceful patio. Here, she will use traditional instruments to cook. (B,L,D)
Overnight Peaceful Resort or similar
Day 10 - Haa Valley
Depart after breakfast for the Haa Valley. From Bondey village, the road to Haa climbs up towards the chele-la pass. After driving through beautiful blue pine and rhododendron forest for 45km, you will reach Chele-la pass. It is a great place to stretch your legs and at 4200 metres, soak in the superb views of Mount Chomolhari and Jichu Drakey.
Continuing on, you will descend into Haa. On arrival at Haa Valley, meet Jigme Khesar Strict Nature Reserve's Head National Park Ranger over lunch at Ugyen Doley Farm Housee. Receive army permits and hike beyond the military checkpoint into one of the most untouched regions of the Himalayas with the ranger. Hike along the ancient illegal trade route between Bhutan and Tibet and overnight at Talela Pass (3780m). Search for wildlife like snow leopard and blue deer. Look for rhododendrons. The 3 hours hike is moderate with a gentle climb.
This evening, relax around a bonfire for a Bhutanese whiskey tasting before being joined by Tsip, an astrologer who will read the magnificent night sky for you. (B,L,D)
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Day 11 – Paro
This morning you will be transferred back to Paro (approx. 2hrs). Stop at the Chelela Pass Ridge where you will hike to Kila Nunnery. The walk begins among the thick fluttering prayer flags. To get blessed and gain merit, you can also attached your own prayer flags. Absorb the views of Paro valley on your right and Haa valley on your left. The thick rhododendron bush and wild flowers adorn the mountain slope making your walk more rewarding. The highest ridge, Kungkarpo, stands at about 4600 metres, the spot for sky burial. From here the trail descends steeply through opened natural meadow and then enters a thick wood of silver fir forest and broadleaved rhododendrons trees before coming out above the Kila Goenpa Nunnery. Visit the temple, pray and interact with nuns before you drive back to hotel. Spend time exploring Paro town on arrival. (B,L,D)
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Day 12 - Tigers Nest
Today it is time to trek to Taktsang Monastery, also known as the 'Tigers Nest.' The Taktsang Monastery is one of the most famous of Bhutan's monasteries, perched on the side of a cliff 900m above the Paro valley floor. It is said that Guru Rinpoche arrived here on the back of a tigress and meditated at this monastery and hence it is called 'Tiger's Nest'. Visited by Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal in 1646 this site has been recognised as a most sacred place. It is said all Bhutanese should visit at least once in their lifetime. On 19th April 1998, a fire severely damaged the main structure of the building but this Bhutanese jewel has been restored to its original splendour.
The hike to the monastery can be broken down into stages. The first stage is the trek to the cafeteria (where lunch will be served) which is situated on a rocky outcrop across a ravine from the monastery. This leg of the trek takes approximately 45 to 60 minutes to reach.
The 2nd stage of the walk is from the cafeteria to the lookout opposite the monastery. This leg takes close to one hour. The 3rd stage is the trek/climb down the 475 steps in the cliff face to the bottom of the ravine which crosses over a stream and waterfall before the path again ascends another 300 odd steps to the entrance of the monastery. The visit and climb to the entrance and back to the lookout will take approximately one hour. Enjoy a picnic lunch on the mountainside. (B,L,D)
Day 13 - Departure
Following breakfast this morning, you will be transferred to Paro airport for your flight to your onward destination. (B)
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Integrity Downloader monitors the clipboard. When a valid URL arrives to the clipboard, the analysis process starts. The program queries the file's last modification date from the server, executes required URL redirections and shows the results. If there is a redirected URL, redirection history is displayed which can be copied to the clipboard. Then the download can be started.
Each download is displayed in a new panel where you can monitor the download process. The amount of data downloaded is displayed on a progress bar, while actual data rate is shown on a graph. After the download is finished, there is a short sound signal and then the type of checksum corresponding to the settings (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256) is displayed at the bottom of the panel.
Next, you can visit VirusTotal where the results of the downloaded file's analysis are displayed (if it was already checked). The program creates the standard checksum file corresponding to the downloaded file, which enables an integrity check anytime with an appropriate program (e.g. Total Commander).
If the name of the file to be downloaded is already in use in the directory, a unique file name is generated by adding a serial number. During the download process, the file name is complemented by an .idl extension which is deleted only after the download is completed. This method enables distinguishing between the complete downloaded file and the file fragment.
The most important data are also displayed on the tray icon in an abbreviated form. You can set up to display this information as notification too. In this case, sound signals correspond to the actual Windows sound settings (Control Panel - Sound), so they can be modified or disabled accordingly.
When there is a command-line call, the program works based on the URL received as a parameter in line with previous settings.


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Q: Wkwebview 100% packet loss preset I have an asynchronous call to refresh my cookies in a new wkwebview.
 public override func viewDidLoad() {
            super.viewDidLoad()
            let cookies = cookieService.getCookies(forDomain: urlService.getTopLevelDomain())
            authenticationService.authenticateIfNeeded { [weak self] error in
                if let error = error {
                   print(failed)
                } else {

                self?.identityService.storeCookies(cookies) {
                    DispatchQueue.main.async {
                        self?.loadRequest()
                    }
                }
            }
        }

public func authenticateIfNeeded(completion: @escaping (Error?) -> Void) {
       let domain = urlService.getTopLevelDomain()
        identityService.refreshCookies(for: domain, force: true, completion: completion)
    }

I have put my network in a 100% packet loss preset.
The logic which has setcookies in identity services has retry options and it takes 60 seconds in total to complete this retry calls.
func storeCookies(_ cookies: [AnyObject], completion: (() -> Void)? = nil) {

        let group = DispatchGroup()
        let httpCookies = cookies.compactMap { $0 as? HTTPCookie }
        for httpCookie in httpCookies {

            self.cookieStorageService.setCookie(httpCookie)
            group.enter()
            wkCookieStorage.setCookie(httpCookie) {
                group.leave()
            }
        }
        group.notify(queue: .main) {
            completion?()
        }
    }

func refreshCookies(for domain: String, force: Bool, completion: @escaping VoidResultHandler) {
        Retry<Void>.call(
            shouldRetry: self.shouldRetryIdentityOperation,
            handler: completion,
            method: { completion in
                self.identityOperations.refreshCookies(force: force, domain: domain, handler: { result in
                    switch result {
                    case .value(let cookies):
                        self.storeCookies(cookies) {
                            completion(.value(()))
                        }
                    case .error(let error):
                        completion(.error(error))
                    }
                })
        })
    }

Till then I see a blank screen and then I get a retry option. How to reduce this delay to have a better user experience.

A: import UIKit
import WebKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    private weak var webView: WKWebView!

    public override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        let webView = WKWebView(frame: .zero, configuration: WKWebViewConfiguration())
        view.addSubview(webView)
        webView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        webView.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.topAnchor).isActive = true
        webView.leftAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.leftAnchor).isActive = true
        view.rightAnchor.constraint(equalTo: webView.rightAnchor).isActive = true
        view.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: webView.bottomAnchor).isActive = true
        self.webView = webView

        checkNetworkSpeed(timeout: 5) { [weak self] error in
            guard let self = self else { return }
            if let error = error { print("!!!! ERROR: \(error)"); return }
            self.webView.load(URLRequest(url: URL(string: "http://google.com")!))
        }
    }

    enum CheckNetworkErrors: Error {
        case noResponse
        case wrongStatusCode(Int)
    }

    public func checkNetworkSpeed(timeout: TimeInterval = 30, completion: ((Error?) -> Void)?) {
        DispatchQueue.global(qos: .default).async {
            let configuration = URLSessionConfiguration.default
            configuration.timeoutIntervalForRequest = timeout
            configuration.timeoutIntervalForResource = timeout
            let session = URLSession(configuration: configuration)
            let url = URL(string: "https://apple.com")

            session.dataTask(with: url!, completionHandler: { data, response, error in
                var responseError: Error?
                defer { DispatchQueue.main.async { completion?(error) } }
                if let error = error { responseError = error; return }
                guard   let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse else {
                    responseError = CheckNetworkErrors.noResponse
                    return
                }
                guard   (200...299).contains(httpResponse.statusCode) else {
                    responseError = CheckNetworkErrors.wrongStatusCode(httpResponse.statusCode)
                    return
                }
            }).resume()
        }
    }
}

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MARSHALL COLMAN
I thought, I went, I saw, I made.
MICHAEL CARDEW
I viewed the upcoming auction of items at Woolley and Wallis yesterday, dominated by two large collections of Martinware, which were introduced to members of the Decorative Arts Society by Dr Christopher Jordan.
There are also many lots of 20th century studio pottery, including some good examples of work by Michael Cardew. I suppose it's because many potters were production throwers that there are numerous examples of their work around, but I was still surprised at the low guide prices for some of the items. This group of five Cardew pots, for example, is expected to sell for £120 – £180 for the lot.
Marshall Colman	1930s, 1940s, 1950s, Arts and Crafts Movement, Bernard Leach, ceramics, craft, potters, pottery, tableware	 24 November 2019 24 November 2019 1 Minute
JAMES TOWER
I caught up with the centenary exhibition of James Tower's work at the Victoria Gallery, Bath, by chance after seeing a tweet and went to see it at the weekend. There's a good collection of his ceramics, which I knew about, and his paintings, drawings and sculpture, which I didn't.
His shapes and marks show the influence of his childhood by the sea on the Isle of Sheppey. "This is a landscape of long silent marshes," he said, "Where the sky seems to dominate the grey-green distance. There are few trees or hills. The forms that engage the eye are the small ones of the beach and the tidal wave. Shells, particularly the bivalves, oyster, mussel and razor shell. The flattened fish of the estuary, plaice, flounder and ray."
He studied at the Royal Academy and the Slade, then, training to be a teacher at the Institute of Education in 1949, he came under the influence of the potter William Newland and decided that ceramics offered a better means of artistic expression. He attended the Central School of Arts and Crafts part-time under Dora Billington, which gave him excellent technical instruction, though it was, in his view, aesthetically conservative.
The Central encouraged a wide range of ceramic expression at the time. The artist-potters, Margaret Hine and Maggie Angus Berkowitz, were Tower's contemporaries, while more traditional tableware was being made by John Solly, Innes Reich and Doreen Lambert. Tower regarded clay as a medium of exploration and was never a potter, though he later ran the pottery department at Corsham.
His worked derived from vernacular European pottery and Picasso's ceramics, which were so startling when they were first shown in Britain, but he quickly went beyond both, creating intriguing conversations between monochrome surface and organic form.
Marshall Colman	1940s, 1950s, abstract painting, Central School of Arts and Crafts, ceramics, Dora Billington, earthenware, maiolica, modernism, Picasso, pottery, Slade; painting	Leave a comment 17 November 2019 18 November 2019 1 Minute
STREET ART: ZOLTÁN BOBOREKI-KOVÁCS
When we visited Košice, Slovakia, a few years ago, we heard Hungarian spoken in the street, and on a walk in the hills encountered a family picnicking over a bogrács, a typical Hungarian cauldron. Košice was once Kassa, part of the kingdom of Hungary, and was one of the areas lost at Trianon after the First World War.
Public art can be an exciting introduction to a previously unfamiliar artist. The Story of the Old Kent Road introduced me to Adam Kossowski, and an unsigned cartoon in a river boat on the Danube opened to me the fascinating world of Pál Molnar-C. In Budapest a few weeks ago, I stopped to look at a heroic piece of relief sculpture (above) on a building in Károly körút, just opposite Deák Ferenc tér, which I took, from the modernity of the building and the style of the work, to be a piece of Socialist Realism celebrating Communist power and the harvest, a remnant of Hungary's fifty years under Soviet rule. It was unsigned, and so I thought that this interesting and neglected bit of artistic flotsam, marred by modern graffiti, would forever remain a mystery to me.
However, when I posted a picture of it on Facebook, Peter Langh, who owns Gallery 567 in Budapest, told me that that artist was Zoltán Boboreki-Kovács and that the sculpture represented the annexation of Upper Hungary following the First Vienna Award – part of the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia and taking in Košice/Kassa. So, obviously not Socialist Realism. But its idealized figures, its juxtaposition of the maternal, the bucolic and the military, its strong faces and dramatic gestures, all indicate how similar nationalist art and communist art can be.
Boboreki-Kovács (19007-92) trained at the Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, and in Rome, and was associated with the Szolnok Artists' Colony, where he became interested in sculpture. Wikipedia says of him that he created realist monumental sculptures, that his compositions were closed and block-like, and that his art was characterized by pure forms and folk styles. At first he worked in in stone, then switched to bronze and wood. He also created sculptures for buildings. He left Hungary for South Africa after the war and his heroic style changed under the influence of modernism, abstraction and African art. His Hungarian Calvary (1941)(above) in the Farkasrét Cemetery is still in the style of his Re-annexation tableaux (below).
Marshall Colman	1930s, 1940s, architecture, Hungary, modernism, sculpture	Leave a comment 24 July 2019 24 July 2019 2 Minutes
BILLINGTON MAIOLICA JUG
I went yesterday to see this Dora Billington jug in the Manchester Art Gallery. I saw it there about twenty years ago but it has not been on display for several years and I had to go down into the store to look at it. It made an impression on me when I first saw it and it was the starting point of my interest in Billington because it showed her mastery of maiolica, a technique not widely practiced by British potters and not held in high esteem by collectors of British studio pottery. From this interest came a determination to bring her work to to wider notice and this jug will be shown in an exhibition of her work that I am organising at the Crafts Study Centre, Farnham, next year.
The jug, about 30cm high, was made in 1942. Billington said that she turned to art to escape the anxieties of war. Much of the Central School of Arts and Crafts, where she had taught for over twenty years, had been evacuated and the building in Southampton Row was damaged by bombardment. In those conditions she made this beautiful and life-affirming piece of pottery – one of her best. The calligraphic brush work is absolutely characteristic. She had trained in calligraphy with Edward Johnston at the Royal College of Art and had worked part-time as a decorator for Bernard Moore when she was a student, so this sort of loose, free decoration became second nature to he. It was a great pleasure to see it again.
Marshall Colman	1940s, Art education, Central School of Arts and Crafts, ceramics, Dora Billington, maiolica, potters, pottery, RCA	Leave a comment 14 February 2019 1 Minute
WOMEN POTTERS
Lucie Rie, one of the women potters in the Dictionary of National Biography
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is filling the gaps in its coverage of notable women and pottery is benefitting from the addition. I have been asked to write entries for Mary Wondrausch and Dora Billington.
Mary Wondrausch, who died in 2016, is well known to studio potters, especially those who are interested in slipware. She was important in its revival and wrote about it in a scholarly way (Mary Wondrausch on Slipware, A & C Black, 2001). Dora Billington (1890-1968), the most significant studio pottery educator in the 20th century, is less well known, even though some of her most eminent students (Alan Caiger-Smith, Gordon Baldwin and Anne Wynn-Reeves) are still alive. She began teaching pottery in the style of Alfred and Louise Powell but in the 1920s she responded immediately to the new pottery of Staite Murray and Bernard Leach. Her most important contribution came after the Second World War when studio pottery seemed to be full of second-rate Leach imitators. Taking her inspiration from the European tradition, she-encouraged new ways of making, notably the tin-glazed pottery of Caiger Smith, Wynn-Reeves and William Newland, and the sculptural ceramics of Baldwin and Gillian Lowndes. Her Technique of Pottery (1962) is still worth reading.
Perhaps there are other entries that could be written on women potters. The DNB has articles on Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie, Lucie Rie and Gillian Lowndes, but nothing at the moment on Louise Powell, Nell Vyse, Dora Lunn, Stella Crofts, Nora Braden, Ursula Mommens or Helen Pincombe.
Marshall Colman	1930s, 1940s, 1950s, Art education, Bernard Leach, Central School of Arts and Crafts, ceramics, Dora Billington, Gordon Baldwin, Lucie Rie, potters, slipware	Leave a comment 15 October 2018 1 Minute
MURRAY FIELDHOUSE
Bowls by Murray Fieldhouse (V&A Museum)
I learned today of the death of Murray Fieldhouse, an important figure in post-war studio pottery who edited the magazine Pottery Quarterly, the first periodical on the subject, which came out irregularly from the mid-1950s to the early 1980s. He was also one of the founder members of the Craft Potters Association.
Murray was born in 1925, and after an unconventional wartime national service, when he became a pacifist, he alighted on the crafts as a way of living out his Utopian and anti-establishment ideals. The choice of pottery came later. He served an apprenticeship with Harry Davis in Cornwall, who was also an anti-establishment Utopian, but more austere in his habits than Murray, who was well-known for his enjoyment of life.
In the 1950s, Murray ran Pendley Manor, an education centre in Hertfordshire to which he invited most of the top names in studio pottery to demonstrate. When I was researching the life of Dora Billington, he gave me some photos of her demonstrating there.
Pottery Quarterly in its early days contained reviews of everything that was happening in British pottery and it is an important record of the period, but Murray was a fierce advocate of the Leach style of pottery and his reviews of exhibitions by potters who didn't follow it became harsher over the years. Nevertheless, he was a close friend of William Newland, who was not in the Leach circle and didn't like his artistic dominance.
Another of Murray's initiatives was the Dacorum and Chiltern Potters Guild, of which he remained honorary president until 2009, when he retired and the job passed to Mervyn Fitzwilliam.
Marshall Colman	1940s, 1950s, Bayswater Three, Bernard Leach, ceramics, craft, Craft Potters Association, Dora Billington, education, potters, pottery	6 Comments 28 August 2018 29 August 2018 1 Minute
THINGS OF BEAUTY GROWING
Lucie Rie tableware. (Estate of Lucie Rie)
I went to see the Fitzwilliam exhibition Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery for the second time.
One of the changes that has taken place in studio pottery in the years since I first became interested in it is that it has become a topic of academic study, a fact regretted by the more downright potters, but a development that has put it into its proper artistic and historical context. We have come a long way from the early books, which simply listed the author's favourite potters. Oliver Watson's survey of the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection (1990) was the first dispassionate account, and Jeffrey Jones's Studio Pottery in Britain (2007) established a scholarly discourse. Glenn Adamson, Martina Droth and Simon Olding, the curators of this exhibition, develop that discourse.
The individual art pot dominates this show, but there is a small section devoted to tea-sets and coffee-sets, including sets by Leach, Lucie Rie (above), Ruth Duckworth (a very 1950s-style collection made before she turned to sculpture), an abysmally bad coffee-set by Roger Fry, and high-quality factory-made sets designed by Susie Cooper and Keith Murray, the architect-trained designer whose modernist shapes were manufactured by Wedgwood. The latter call into question the studio potter's insistence at the time that factory-made pottery was bad and meretricious.
The exhibits of tableware point to the dialogue that took place on and off between the crafts and industry between the 1920s and the 1970s, and the discussions in the crafts about whether the craftsman had a contribution to make to manufacturing. It was inconclusive, rarely productive and sometimes acrimonious. It is not explained in the exhibition but it is discussed in an essay by Tanya Harrod in the accompanying book.
In the the post-war decades potters became preoccupied with repetition throwing. Some vaguely imagined that craft pottery might replace factory-made pottery and potters like Harry Davis, those at Briglin, and Leach's young assistants mass-produced by hand. But by the end of the 'sixties, government realised that the crafts had little to offer industry and passed responsibility for them from the Board of Trade (where it had rested since the 1920s) to the Department of Education.
By the 1980s, the market for hand-made tableware was in decline and studio potters had aligned themselves with the arts rather than industry. Now few think studio pottery has much to say about manufacturing, though a notable exception is Sophie Conran's popular "Pebble" range, which has a deliberately hand-made look and was in fact designed for her by British studio potter.
Marshall Colman	1930s, 1940s, 1950s, Bernard Leach, ceramics, craft, Fitzwilliam Museum, handmade, potters, pottery, Stoke on Trent, tableware	Leave a comment 31 May 2018 1 June 2018 2 Minutes
DISAPPEARING TALENT
THE CRAFTS STUDY CENTRE
ROBIN WELCH
WHAT IF GROPIUS HAD BEEN DIRECTOR OF THE RCA?
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Q: Universal $W^*$-algebras of locally compact groups: where is the error in this argument? Let $G$ be a locally compact Hausdorff group.
It is known that $G$ can be topologically embedded in $W^{\ast}(G)$ , its universal $W^{\ast}$-algebra (with the $\sigma$-weak topology). An element $T \in W^{\ast}(G)$ is a function assigning to each representation $\pi$ a bounded operator $T(\pi) \in B(H_{\pi})$. This $T$ must be compatible with interwiners and $T(\pi)$ must be uniformly bounded.
This was done (in a slightly different language) by J. Ernest in A new group algebra for locally compact groups.
Now define $G_{\otimes}= \{ T \in W^*(G)_{\neq 0} / T(\pi_1 \otimes \pi_2) = T(\pi_1) \otimes T(\pi_2) \}$
It's not hard to see that elements in $G_{\otimes}$ are unitaries. This is briefly proven in Yuhjtman - Some considerations regarding the universal $W^*$ algebra of a topological group (proposition 4.2).
Now Tatsuuma's duality theorem applies (Tatsuuma - A duality theorem for locally compact groups, I, proposition 2) so $G=G_\otimes$. But $G_\otimes$ is closed and inside the unit ball, so it is compact (always $\sigma$-weak topolgy). Therefore $G$ is compact.

A: A link to the literature: I think of $C^*(G)^*$ as being $B(G)$, the Fourier-Stieltjes algebra, realised as a (non-closed) algebra of continuous functions on $G$.  Any member of $C^*(G)^*$ can be realised as the composition of a representation $\pi$ on $H$ with a vector functional $\omega_{\xi,\eta}$ on $H$.  The resulting function in $B(G)$ is $g\mapsto (\pi(g)\xi|\eta)$.
Then $W^*(G)$ is $B(G)^*$.  As the tensor product of representations corresponds to the product in $B(G)$, it follows that $G_{\otimes}$ is actually just the collection of characters on $B(G)$, namely algebra homomorphisms $B(G)\rightarrow\mathbb C$.  Such things were explored by Walter in his paper "On the structure of the Fourier–Stieltjes algebra".
It's shown that $G_{\otimes}$ is not a group, and that it contains proper partial isometries and projections; it is a semigroup though.


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Harrogate Film Society shoot their own movie
A still from Harrogate Film Society's short film about Don Winslow, one of the world's biggest-selling authors, shot in Harrogate.
The keen film buffs of the esteemed Harrogate Film Society don't just show movies - sometimes they make them.
When some of the world's best authors arrived in Harrogate for the hugely popular Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival at the Old Swan Hotel last week, the film society's pop-up cinema arm, Flash Film, was ready to pounce.
The team managed to track down Don Winslow, one of the world's biggest-selling authors, on the Saturday afternoon at the festival and filmed a 10 minute interview with him.
One of his bestsellers, Savages, was turned into a Hollywood movie in 2102 by Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone with Benicio del Toro, Salma Hayek and John Travolta in the starring roles.
Formed in 1955, Harrogate Film Society is now in its 63nd year and is a member of the British Film Institute and the British Federation of Film Societies.
As a result of their show of initiative everyone who attended Harrogate Film Society's Flash Film screening of Savages on Sunday afternoon in conjunction with Harrogate International Festivals at the North Bar was treated to the exclusive interview with Don as an introduction.
Winslow, whose latest, The Force, about a corrupt New York cop, has won rave reviews, has sold over 100 million books worldwide.
He appeared as part of Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival on Saturday evening talking about about his work as a novelist and about the war on drugs more generally.
Harrogate Film Society screens movies at Ashville College regularly with purpose-built facilities and free parking!"
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Kr00k (également écrit KrØØk) est une faille de sécurité qui permet à un attaquant de déchiffrer des communications Wi-Fi utilisant le mécanisme de sécurité WPA2. Cette vulnérabilité a été découverte par l'entreprise de sécurité ESET en 2019 et porte l'identifiant CVE-2019-15126. D'après l'ESET, cette vulnérabilité affectait, au moment de sa découverte, plus d'un milliard de systèmes.

Découverte
La vulnérabilité a été nommée Kr00k par Robert Lipovsky et Stefan Svorencik. Elle a été découverte alors qu'ils essayaient des variantes de l'attaque KRACK.

D'abord observée dans les puces fabriquées par Broadcom et Cypress, des vulnérabilités similaires ont été trouvées dans d'autres implémentations, dont notamment celles de Qualcomm et MediaTek.

Patchs
La vulnérabilité a été corrigée logiciellement par différents éditeurs dont :

 iOS 13.2 et iPadOS 13.2 - 28 octobre 2019
 macOS Catalina 10.15.1, mise à jour de sécurité 2019-001 et mise à jour de sécurité 2019-006 du 29 octobre 2019
 Huawei :

Appareils vulnérables
Aux cours des recherches, plus d'une douzaine de systèmes très populaires ont été constatés comme vulnérables.  Cela inclut les appareils suivants :

 Amazon Echo 2e génération
 Amazon Kindle 8e génération
 Apple iPad mini 2
 Apple iPhone 6, 6S, 8, XR
 Apple MacBook Air Retina 13 pouces 2018
 Routeurs sans fil Asus (RT-AC1200G +, RT-AC68U), mais corrigés dans la version du micrologiciel 3.0.0.4.382.5161220 en mars 2020
 Google Nexus 5
 Google Nexus 6
 Google Nexus 6P
 Raspberry Pi 3
 Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9505
 Samsung Galaxy S8
 Xiaomi Redmi 3S

Cisco a découvert que plusieurs de ses appareils étaient vulnérables et travaille sur des correctifs.  L'identifiant cisco-sa-20200226-wi-fi-info-disclosure y a été associé.

Notes et références

Wi-Fi
Exploit (informatique)