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Doosan has announced that it will be an official patron for The Open Championship, the oldest and most prestigious of the four major global golf events, for the next five years. The sponsorship forms an important part of Doosan's marketing strategy that will support the company's aim to become one of the Global 200 companies by 2020.
The Open is organised by The R&A, golf's governing body, and is celebrating its 150th year. Doosan will be one of six patrons including Rolex and Lexus. Doosan will be the first Korean company to join The Open.
The Open will be seen by a crowd of 250,000 at the event and the competition will be broadcast to 163 nations including Europe and North America.
"We are delighted to be joining The Open as a patron," says Doosan Infracore UK general manager, Tim Waples. "Our aim is to raise the profile of Doosan, not only for forklifts, but for many of our other businesses both here in the UK and elsewhere. The Open Championship is one of the most prestigious events in the sporting calendar and Doosan believes this is a great partnership, and a great way to spread the Doosan message."
Doosan will also build its marketing strategies in Europe and North America through its other affiliates such as Doosan Babcock (steam generation manufacturer), Doosan IMGB (forging and casting), Skoda Power (plant turbine manufacturer) and Doosan Infracore International (construction equipment, including Bobcat).
The forklift division, DIUK, has continued to perform well despite tough trading conditions, adding a German-built warehouse range to its core forklift business, whilst the construction division has added the articulated dump truck business, Moxy for $81 million.
"We will continue to invest in both our sales and marketing activity," concludes Tim, "as we have with our parts, support and well-respected distributor network."
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Is intolerance and acceptance of dissent on the wane, asks President
Updated Oct 19, 2015 | 20:15 IST
Amidst a wave of rising intolerance, President Pranab Mukherjee today expressed serious apprehensions over whether tolerance and acceptance of dissent are on the wane in the country.
Mukherjee today took to Twitter after ink attack on engineer Rashid, an independent lawmaker from Jammu and Kashmir, at the Press Club in Delhi.
While attending a gathering in Birbhum, West Bengal he tweeted, "Is tolerance and acceptance of dissent on the wane?"
The President further added, "Remember teachings of Shri Ramakrishna Paramhansa 'Jato Mat Tato Path', as there are a number of beliefs, there are a number of ways".
In a series of tweets, Mukherjee also said that humanism and pluralism should not be abandoned under any circumstance and assimilation through receiving is a characteristic of Indian society.
The President's strong words on the need to maintain pluralism and dissent in the society come against the backdrop of series of hate incidents including in Mumbai where BJP ally Shiv Sena forced cancellation of a music concert by Pakistani legend Ghulam Ali and talks between Indian and Pakistani cricket board Chiefs and blackened the face of Sudheendra Kulkarni.
Less than a fortnight ago against the backdrop of Dadri lynching, the President made a strong appeal for maintaining the core civilisational values of diversity, tolerance and plurality have kept India united for centuries which he said cannot be wasted.
The President's strong condemnation came on a day when an independent MLA from Jammu and Kashmir Sheikh Abdul Rashid was
the target of a fringe Hindu outfit which threw ink him at the Press Club in Delhi protesting against the beef party he held in Srinagar earlier this month. He was also beaten up in the state assembly by BJP MLAs.
Greeting people on the eve of Durga Puja celebrations, Mukherjee expressed the hope that "Mahamaya - the combination of all positive forces would eliminate the Asuras or divisive forces."


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Cardiovascular Risk in Patients With Psoriatic Arthritis
Stanley Cohen, MD; Atul Deodhar, MD
Stanley Cohen, MD: I am Dr Stanley Cohen and welcome to Medscape's InDiscussion series on psoriatic arthritis. This is episode four of the second season. Today, we'll be discussing cardiovascular risk in psoriatic arthritis and the impact of effective treatment. And I have one of my good friends here today — Dr Atul Deodhar who is professor of medicine, Division of Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases in the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University. He is also medical director of the Rheumatology Clinics Immunology Infusion Center in the Home Infusion Program in the Division of Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases at Oregon. He has a special interest in psoriatic arthritis and spondyloarthropathies, has been well published, and has participated in multiple clinical trials. It's our pleasure to have you here today, Atul. Thank you for joining us. I look forward to talking with you about this issue.
Atul Deodhar, MD: I'm delighted to be here.
Cohen: Great to have you. I understand you've put a case together. Why don't we just present the case, and then we'll try to talk about cardiovascular risk in psoriatic arthritis and spondyloarthropathies.
Deodhar: This is a patient I saw earlier this week since I was thinking about this podcast we are doing today — there isn't anything special about the case. It was a routine visit for a patient with psoriatic arthritis. He's a 57-year-old gentleman whom I have seen for some time. And in the past, he has failed methotrexate, he has failed etanercept, he has failed adalimumab, and I've seen him for about a couple of years. He's a typical psoriatic arthritis patient in that he has obesity, a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, and uncontrolled psoriatic arthritis. I put him on ustekinumab for some time, and he came to see me. He still had significant arthritis when I examined him. He had 12 swollen joints and about a similar number of tender joints. He had reduced shoulder abduction. He was also tender on his lateral epicondyle. While talking to him, it occurred to me as a rheumatologist, of course — how am I going to control his psoriasis? How am I going to control his psoriatic arthritis?
But then we are internists, and we should also always consider the other comorbidities. Psoriatic arthritis in some ways is even worse in this situation than rheumatoid arthritis when it comes to obesity, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, hypertension, etc. This gentleman I picked particularly for today's discussion has a very good primary care physician, and he is already receiving treatment for hypertension, hyperlipidemia, etc., but despite that, his blood pressure when I saw him was 170 over 90. His cholesterol was done by his primary care physician, his LDL was high, and he was on atorvastatin. He was also on an ACE inhibitor. I was thinking that this was something for which I probably need to get help from my cardiology friends. We have a preventive cardiology department that is very good. This is something that is beyond us as rheumatologists — we should be taking care of all these problems because we are internists, but at the same time, we don't keep up with treatment of diabetes or hypertension and hyperlipidemia. There are so many advances in these areas, and beyond a certain stage, we should not hesitate to take help from our colleagues in other divisions such as cardiology. We do comanage patients with dermatology. Sometimes we comanage patients with gastroenterology if they've got inflammatory bowel disease–associated problems. Sometimes we comanage patients with ophthalmologists if they get uveitis. We should really be dealing with these kinds of situations, especially with psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis, with cardiologists, preventive cardiology, and endocrinologists if we have difficulty in bringing patients' lipids under control.
Cohen: This is a typical patient with multiple comorbidities associated with increased cardiovascular risk. First question: Do you think or are there any data showing there is an increased prevalence of comorbidities with psoriatic arthritis compared to something like rheumatoid arthritis? Is there an increase in metabolic syndrome, obesity, hypertension, or hyperlipidemia in patients with psoriatic arthritis compared to patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Are there any data? Tell me about that.
Deodhar: There are several systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses that have looked at this, and we know that there is an increased prevalence of metabolic syndrome in patients with psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis, just like in rheumatoid arthritis. This depends on how you define metabolic syndrome. There are different definitions in the literature, but in general, there is definitely an increased risk for metabolic syndrome in patients with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. To your specific question, the risk may be even higher in psoriatic arthritis compared to rheumatoid arthritis. There was a recently a metabolic syndrome prevalence published from Spain, and they looked at the CARMA (Spanish Cardiovascular in Rheumatology) cohort. What they found out was that compared to patients with rheumatoid arthritis, there was an increased risk of obesity especially, and with this, hyperlipidemia and hypertension in patients with psoriatic arthritis even more than what we find in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. And when, of course, you compare this with the general population, there is an increased risk of hyperglycemia, hypertriglyceridemia, hypercholesterolemia, obesity, hypertension, etc. It's interesting that if a patient goes to a diabetologist because they have diabetes, the diabetologist treats their diabetes but the patient also comes out of the appointment with a prescription for aspirin, a prescription for a statin, a prescription for, of course, their diabetes, and a prescription for their hypertension. Diabetologists do a great job taking care of this. Rheumatologists, because we are internists, we can do only so much. But then we should certainly be cognizant to the fact that all these features do play a role in the patient's overall health. And we should then, if we cannot treat them, get help from our cardiology or endocrinology friends.
Cohen: I agree with you 100%. This has been a difficult sell even with my associates in my clinical practice to get them to provide more global care. We need to do a team approach with our primary care or cardiology colleagues. Let me ask you a question. What's the role of the disease activity in cardiovascular risk? Are there studies to suggest that the degree of psoriasis might be associated with cardiovascular risk, or that poorly controlled disease activity is associated with cardiovascular risk in psoriatic arthritis or spondyloarthropathies?
Deodhar: It's curious. There are several cardiovascular risk prediction algorithms, and probably the most popular or the most famous would be the Framingham Risk Score. But there are others. There are the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association pooled cohort equations. Then there is something called QRISK 2. Then there is something called SCORE, which is Systematic Coronary Risk Evaluation. There are several of these scores available that predict cardiovascular risk, and they take into account the usual cardiovascular risk factors we learn in medical school and as residents, which are hypertension, hyperlipidemia, male sex, smoking, obesity, diabetes, etc. When you apply these to patients with psoriatic arthritis, you find that these risk prediction algorithms underestimate the risk of cardiovascular risk in these patients. And the same thing was found in rheumatoid arthritis and in axial spondyloarthritis or ankylosing spondylitis. That brings us to the question: What is the extra thing these typical Framingham Risk Score algorithms, etc., are not measuring? The answer is, of course, the systemic inflammation. With psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, like rheumatoid arthritis and axial spondyloarthritis, the systemic inflammation adds to the conventional risk factors that we all know about, which are hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity, and smoking. We know this. But there are additional risks, and several people have come up with multiplication factors. You can do it with your Framingham Risk Score or your American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association score — whichever score you use — but then multiply it by 1.8 or 1.5. There are people who have come up with different numbers, but the basic idea is that these algorithms underestimate, and inflammation definitely plays a role. There was a paper, as you may remember, about controlling the inflammation with, interestingly, I think it was the IL-1 inhibitor, in The New England Journal of Medicine to see whether it reduced the risk for cardiovascular disease. It did actually reduce the risk to a small extent. Colchicine also was used to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease by reducing the inflammation. Inflammation definitely plays a role in the cardiovascular risk of these patients.
Cohen: We know that inflammation and disease activity play a role. What about the impact of our treatments? We have multiple therapies now looking at different pathways of inflammation that are very effective in psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. What hard data do we have to show that any of these therapies reduce cardiovascular risk?
Deodhar: That's a great question. We know that in rheumatoid arthritis, both methotrexate and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors reduce the cardiovascular risk. I have been searching for this specifically for psoriatic arthritis. There was one article I found way back in 2015. They did, again, a meta-analysis and a systematic literature review, and they looked specifically for the effects of TNF inhibitors, methotrexate, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and also corticosteroids on cardiovascular events in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, and psoriatic arthritis. This was a meta-analysis by doing a systematic literature review, and most of the studies they found were also on rheumatoid arthritis. This was a large undertaking. They used Medline, Embase, Cochrane Database, etc., from 1962 to 2014. This article was published in 2015, and most of the studies they found were in rheumatoid arthritis. Their meta-analysis showed what we already knew — that in rheumatoid arthritis, the TNF inhibitors and methotrexate do reduce the cardiovascular risk. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs increase the risk. Most of that in those days was because of rofecoxib. We don't use rofecoxib anymore. Corticosteroids increase the cardiovascular risk as well. Now in psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, the systemic therapy with these agents did reduce the risk of all cardiovascular events, and the relative risk was 0.75 to 1.6, and it was still a statistically significant result. The TNF inhibitors and methotrexate both again showed the same signal when they took systemic therapy together. Then they could get a significant P value. But when they started teasing out whether it was methotrexate or whether it was anti-TNF therapy, they did not have the statistical power to look at this. Most of the data we have come from rheumatoid arthritis — that reducing inflammation reduces the risk. In psoriatic arthritis, this was one of the attempts, and they found that there is certainly a signal in the same direction. If you take all the systemic therapy together, it does become statistically significant. This brings into the discussion that things like nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and prednisone certainly increase the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Cohen: The data are somewhat limited. Certainly the data we have are promising but really don't address whether it's IL-17 inhibition or IL-23 inhibition, or IL-12/23 inhibition — it's just that the data are limited. We just don't know. We presume based on the flip side that reducing inflammation should be a good thing, but the data don't exist at this point.
Deodhar: That's right. I think we need to treat many, many patients. And these types of data require national-level databases or large databases in Europe. As you know, Stan, any patient who gets a biologic generally gets into some kind of data bank that the National Health Service mandates rheumatologists to put their patients into. These types of data banks or cohorts, at the national level, are very useful for looking back on the population level at whether IL-17 inhibitors, IL-12/23 inhibitors, IL-23 inhibitors would be in the same category as TNF inhibitors when it comes to reducing the cardiovascular risk. Currently, these data are not available.
Cohen: So we have two JAK inhibitors that are approved, and we're going to have a TYK2 inhibitor, another JK isoform inhibitor, which will probably be approved. Do we have the same concerns that have been raised by the regulatory agencies? We do have the restriction, and we shouldn't use them until after TNF failures at this point. You agree with that. Obviously we're going to follow the restrictions. But what are your thoughts about the JAK inhibitors? The good news about psoriasis patients is that they're a little younger than our patients in rheumatoid arthritis, so we can probably get away with JAK inhibitors in the younger patients. I am just curious what you think about the role of the JAK inhibitors at this point in patients who do have cardiovascular risk factors and have psoriatic arthritis or psoriasis?
Deodhar: I'd like to get back to my patient, and I'll tell you exactly what happened with this patient earlier this week — the 57-year-old gentleman I was looking at. I had to change his current biologic to something else. He had tried two anti-TNFs and one IL-12/23 inhibitor. We went into this long discussion, and I was telling him about his hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes when I told him I was also going to refer him to our endocrinology department. Endocrinology, in fact, works in preventive cardiology because we need to get these things under control better.
One more quick point I want to make is about obesity. We sometimes hesitate to discuss this with the patient because it's a touchy subject and it's shared decision-making. But you always kind of ask permission — at least I do. I ask them if we can talk about their weight, and if it is okay for me to discuss it. Because it does impact how I treat their psoriatic arthritis. Patients who are overweight or obese have problems other than that — it reduces their functional ability. It's linked with greater psoriasis severity. It is linked with greater disease activity and even reduced response to the treatments we use as rheumatologists. Weight loss or maintenance of their weight helps our biologics work. The other thing of course, with obesity, is that these people also have increased risk of fatty liver and methotrexate use, so these kinds of drugs again become problematic with obesity. Getting back to this patient, I did think about a JAK inhibitor, and we did discuss an IL-17 inhibitor that he had never tried, an IL-23 inhibitor, and a JAK inhibitor. He was 57 years old. He doesn't have rheumatoid arthritis, but he has all these risk factors, and I would worry about the similar risk in patients with psoriatic arthritis we know with the oral surveillance study — that trial you mentioned — which actually gave the JAK inhibitor a black box warning. Yes, in a younger patient, in an ankylosing spondylitis patient who was maybe 30 or 35 years old, or if my patient was younger and not obese and didn't have the cardiovascular risk factors, I probably would go with the JAK inhibitor. But for somebody who's 57 already with these risk factors, I would be concerned about using a JAK inhibitor. He ultimately decided to go with the IL-17 inhibitor after telling him about all the issues. That concern is in the back of my mind when patients have cardiovascular risk already known because of their conventional risk factors.
Cohen: Thankfully, we have alternative therapies we can choose from, and I think is a relative contraindication in that population as well. Atul, this has been terrific. I appreciate your time with us, and I hope you found this fun as well. Thank you for giving us some insight on cardiovascular risk in psoriatic arthritis patients.
Deodhar: Thank you so much, Stan, I enjoyed it.
Cohen: Thank you so much for joining us for episode four, and I look forward to another great discussion in episode 5. This is Dr Stanley Cohen for InDiscussion.
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Clinical Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical School; Director, Rheumatology Training Program, Texas Health Resources Presbyterian, Rheumatology Associates, Dallas, Texas
Received research grant from: AbbVie; Pfizer; Genentech; Roche; Gilead; Lilly
Atul Deodhar, MD
Professor of Medicine, Medical Director of Rheumatology Clinics, Division of Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon
Disclosure: Atul Deodhar, MD, has disclosed the following relevant financial relationships:
Serve(d) as a speaker or a member of a speaker's bureau for: Lilly; Janssen; Novartis; Pfizer; UCB
Received research grant from: AbbVie; Celgene; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Lilly; Janssen; Novartis
Received income in an amount equal to or greater than $250 from: AbbVie; Amgen; Aurinia Pharmaceuticals; Bristol Myers Squibb; Janssen; GlaxoSmithKline; MoonLake Immunotherapeutics; Novartis; Pfizer; UCB


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Home News & Analysis Global Macro These 10 Emerging Market Central Banks Account For the Largest Interest Rates...
These 10 Emerging Market Central Banks Account For the Largest Interest Rates Cuts In 2017
This is post 1 of 4 in the series "Take It 'Easy': Monetary Policy in 2017 and Emerging Markets Bonds"
Monetary Policy May See Additional Rate Cuts In These 3 Emerging European Countries
After An 'Easy' YTD 2017, How Will Monetary Policy Impact Bonds Latin American Countries?
Will These Two Emerging Countries Continue To See Easy Monetary Policy In 2018?
Economic developments in emerging market countries throughout 2017 have led to many central banks reducing their key rates this year.
Some of the major emerging markets which have slashed interest rates are shown in the graph below with the levels of their key rates as on October 11.
Ukraine has cut its policy rate twice in YTD 2017 by a cumulative 150 basis points. The discount rate had begun the year at 14% and was last reduced in May by 50 basis points.
The country's central bank – the National Bank of Ukraine – has been on a policy easing cycle since August 2015 and has cut the discount rate by a sizable 17.5% since then. Its speed of rate cuts has declined though; in 2016, the central bank reduced the discount rate by a total of 8 percentage points.
Belarus has seen quite a bit of monetary easing in the form of rate cuts this year. The National Bank of the Republic of Belarus has slashed its refinancing rate seven times so far and has already announced that it will introduce another cut in its meeting later in October.
The refinancing rate had begun the year at 18%, and with the announced reduction in October, it will decline to 11%. Of these eight cuts, six have been a full percentage point each.
In 2017 so far, the Central Bank of Russia has reduced its key interest rate by 150 basis points. The bank's key rate began the year at 10%, and four reductions later, stands at 8.5%; the latest cut was effected on September 15. A dive in inflation in the country has been the primary driver of the aforementioned rate cuts.
The Banco Central do Brasil has been on an aggressive rate-cutting spree. In YTD 2017 alone, the central bank reduced its Selic rate six times and post the latest cut in September, it stands at a four year low of 8.25%.
South Africa has seen only one rate cut this year. The South Africa Reserve Bank had surprised markets by reducing its average repo rate by 25 basis points to 6.75% in July but since then, has remained unmoved.
The rate cut in July was its first in five years and was aimed primarily at supporting the economy which had fallen into recession at the beginning of the year.
The Reserve Bank of India has been relatively cautious about easing monetary policy this year, slashing its key repo rate just once in August by 25 basis points to 6%.
Colombia has cut rates seven times this year. The Colombia minimum repo rate had begun the year at 7.5%, and with the latest reduction in August, the cumulative amount of cuts stands lower by 225 basis points.
Low inflation has allowed the Banco Central de la Republica de Colombia to slash rates and stimulate economic growth.
Bank Indonesia surprised markets when it cut its 7-day Reverse Repo Rate for the first time since October 2016 in August. It kept the surprise element going by catching market participants off-guard again in September. In total, the central bank has reduced its policy rate by 50 basis points in 2017 so far.
Similar to Belarus and neighboring Brazil and Colombia, Peru has witnessed several interest rate reductions in 2017. The Peru Central Bank Reference Rate has been slashed three times this year by a cumulative 75 basis points.
The first cut of the year was effected in May and it had marked the first decline in the reference rate in 14 months.
The Banco Central de Chile, similar to several of its Latin America peers, has cut its policy rates in 2017. Chile's Monetary Policy Rate has been reduced four times this year by a cumulative one percentage point and stands at 2.5% at present.
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A few weeks ago I ran into Chef Sato from Tenku RyuGin (天空龍吟), and we chatted about the new Shoun RyuGin (祥雲龍吟) that Chef Seiji Yamamoto (山本征治) is opening in my hometown Taipei and how excited I was. I apologized for not having visited his restaurant as often as I would have liked, and was surprised that he remembered that my last visit was only a couple of months ago. Mrs. Tigger had told me about their recent visit and that the Japanese white peach was now on the menu, so I promised Chef Sato that I would make a visit this month. My Favorite Cousin is always up for a good meal, and since she works in the same building as the restaurant, I asked her to join me for dinner tonight.
I received a call from the restaurant staff this afternoon, and after confirming that I was still coming tonight, the person at the other end of the line checked to make sure I want tuna removed from my menu. I was pleasantly surprised that they remembered - since I forgot to tell them not to give me tuna last time - and chalk it up to good customer profiling.
Cold somen topped with white shrimp and premium caviar (富山 "白海老" フランス ソローニュ川 "キャビア" そうめん) - always love to start off with this in the summer since it's really refreshing.
My annual birthday dinner with my group of wine friends is long overdue, and an earlier gathering had to be rescheduled due to a business trip. But this delay turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as it opened up the chance to try out a very special promotion.
At an earlier dinner organized by Susan the Great, I found out that One Harbour Road (港灣壹號) at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong was going to celebrate their 25th anniversary and present special menus based on recipes of Pearl Kong Chen (江獻珠), the famous cookbook author. She is also the granddaughter of Jiang Kongyin (江孔殷), the scholar known as 江太史 and a famous gourmand. I found that the restaurant has put together a number of dishes, spread across two different set menus, so I quickly made two bookings so I could try out all the dishes. Tonight would be the first pass.
We were really hungry while waiting for our last arrival, and as they don't exactly have bread baskets at Chinese restaurants, I ordered a small plate of honey roasted barbecued pork (蜜糖汁叉燒). This was actually pretty nice - tender with just enough fat - but I guess one would expect that from a place of this caliber.
It's been a while since my friends closed down L'Idiot, and I was really excited to find out that they were reviving the place - this time inside their family's flagship hotel. So I rounded up a couple of old colleagues and mutual friends, and asked the boss to book a table for us. We wanted to try out the place during its "soft opening" period.
I wanted to catch up with Afu - who, by the way, is still very very very very single - so I dropped by the restaurant in the middle of the afternoon. Younger brother Fudy was also around, and the two of them took turns showing me the place as well as the kitchen. There's a room all the way in the back where they are dry-aging their own slabs of beef, and the familiar smell hit me as soon as I opened the door. A few other places in Taipei are claiming to dry-age their beef, but these guys are doing it for real.
It's been a while since I last caught up with a couple of friends, and lunch was planned for today. One of us looooves Japanese food, and had initially suggested that we go to Shoraku (匠楽). Unfortunately, it's one of those places that I've blacklisted, so a table was booked at Sasa Sushi (笹鮨) instead. I was all set to revisit after my pretty good lunch some time ago, when something in the media caught my eye.
I haven't been excited about eating at Shintori (新都里) in about a decade, and pretty much only go with the parental units when family friends invite us. Right now, however, they are doing a seasonal promotion together with Kinmata (近又), the venerable Kyoto establishment I had the pleasure of visiting with the parental units in 2006. Wanting to enjoy a little taste of Kyo-ryori (京料理) in Taipei, I requested for a venue change and my friends very kindly indulged me.
Salumi misti - not a bad start to go along with our wines.
Capesante avvolte con guanciale - we saw this being served to another table, and the second I saw the word "guanciale" I was sold. This was very nice indeed. The scallop was delicious, can't go wrong with the guanciale, and the tomato and basil salsa on top was good, too.
Another long-awaited gathering, and this time our organizer has chosen Kam's Restuarant (甘飯館), the new restaurant opened by Kevin Kam (甘崇軒), eldest son of the late Kinsen Kam (甘健成), whose father opened a little restaurant called Yung Kee (鏞記飯店). This is the branch of the family that lost out in the feud, so the third generation has now struck out on their own and opened two outlets.
The space wasn't very big, and I arrived a little early, while the diners from the earlier seating were still finishing up. Business was very good, and anyone without a reservation was turned away at the door. And even those with reservations would have to wait until their table freed up.
First came the century eggs with pickled ginger (皮蛋酸薑). Not liking the half that I took today... The chemical/ammonia flavors were a little too much.


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Jute and Palm opens storefront home decor and gift shop in downtown Panama City
Ebonee Burrell
The News Herald
PANAMA CITY — Two longtime friends created a vision to own a shop nearly two years ago and after much thought and preparation, they are now the owners of a new home décor and gift shop in downtown Panama City.
Owners Tracey Elliot and Lesli Todd opened Jute and Palm in mid-March with a vision to take part in revitalizing the community through timeless treasures.
The idea to open a gift shop formed on a lunch outing in February 2020. Elliot and Todd agreed they wanted to own something outside of their career paths and started paving the way to make it happen.
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"My husband and I always wanted to live in Panama City, but we spent a lot of time waiting because he had to transfer his job," said Todd, a Georgia native. "So we were in prayer mode for almost a year before anything started happening, but eventually God opened the doors for us."
The new storefront sits at 448 Harrison Ave. and welcomes customers Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Jute and Palm sells home décor merchandise collections, including candles, crafted gift sets, dining accessories, furniture, jewelry and forgotten art. Each item is tagged as either found, made or gathered, telling its own story of how it ended up in the store.
Elliot said the inventory rotates each week, so customers get a feel of something new during each visit.
"One of my favorite things to do is find things and create them into something else," Elliot said. "I personally pick out our items to make them one-of-a-kind creations because people don't see curated items as often anymore."
Jute and Palm's name comes from a last-minute decision, Elliot said. The owners thought of several names before deciding they wanted to incorporate "jute," a popular natural fiber used to weave crafts, and something simple that followed, and they thought of "palm."
Looking into the future, they plan to add the store's inventory on its website, juteandpalm.com, allowing customers from outside of Bay County to shop within the store. They also want to connect with other businesses in the community and participate in events and activities downtown.
Bay County schools and union agree to raise starting salary, give 5% raise to teachers Florida's new House leader plans to form select committee on hurricane resiliency, recovery 'Great asset': Bay County Skate Park 30% complete. Commissioners vote to add restrooms Helping those in need: Salvation Army opens second thrift store in Panama City
Todd said she enjoys welcoming visitors from the downtown farmer's market on Saturdays, and it's brought in several new and repeat customers.
"Our goal is to be community-oriented. We've already met so many great people since opening and hope we continue seeing that moving forward," Todd said. "I love the downtown area, and we see great plans from businesses already here, so we know others have the best interest for Bay County."
Jute and Palm will hold its grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony with the Bay County and Panama City Beach Chamber of Commerce in the next few weeks. Follow the Jute and Palm Facebook page for updates and announcements.


This annual event is conducted in partnership with UC Berkeley under the auspices of the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium. Our effort is aimed to recruit and train students in relevant nuclear disciplines in preparation for research and leadership roles in government, policy, industry, and academia. We aim to draw students and scholars together in unconventional ways, replacing the boundaries that separate disciplines with a more inclusive science-technology policy interface.
Our first intensive, two-week introduction to policy foundations and drivers in the nuclear area in 2018 drew a wide variety of graduate students (some with Masters' degrees, some PhD students), post-docs, and young professionals.
The Nuclear Security Policy Boot Camp is a great opportunity for students to network with nuclear policy professionals, visit Capitol Hill and Administration agencies, receive policy communication training, and connect with like-minded students. The deadline for applications is February 15, 2019. I have attached a brochure about the Boot Camp. Please visit the Boot Camp website for more information and to direct your students to apply. If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to my assistant, Samantha D'Introno. She can be reached at sdintrono@gwu.edu or by phone at 202-994-7292.


Dash's 12.2 update has been released, increasing the block size and lowering default fees, as Bitcoin's Segwit2x block size increase is called off.
#Dash 12.2 v Launch !
The 12.2 update includes a myriad of changes and improvements, though key among them are several important advances related to scaling and usability. First is a two-megabyte block size increase doubling current on-chain capacity. With a 2.5 minute block interval, this is the equivalent of an 8mb block size for a coin like Bitcoin with a 10-minute block interval (Bitcoin has a 1mb block size while Bitcoin Cash's is 8mb). This means that without any further upgrades Dash could support network traffic eight times that of Bitcoin's present usage before running into problems, and Dash has a long-term scaling plan to grow the network capacity far larger to include blocks 400mb in size and beyond.
Second is a tenfold fee decrease. Previously, Dash enjoyed some of the lowest fees of the top cryptocurrencies, with a median fee of about 3 cents at present values. Now, the base fee of 0.0001 Dash for regular transactions and 0.001 for InstantSend are being reduced to 0.00001 and 0.0001, respectively. This will keep small transactions affordable even as the market value of Dash, and its network use, increase. Finally, several improvements have been made to PrivateSend private transactions, allowing balances to be mixed and anonymized more efficiently.
At the same time, Bitcoin has recently faced slimmer chances at a short-term scaling improvement. The Segwit2x update, signed by representatives of a high portion of the network's hashpower and meant to solve the scaling impasse by agreeing to both a 2mb block size increase and the activation of Segregated Witness (Segwit), succeeded in short order in activating Segwit to appease one side of the scaling debate. However, while attempting to implement the block size increase, the agreement faced fierce opposition. As a result, the main driving actors behind the update called it off this week, meaning that for the foreseeable future Bitcoin will retain its 1mb block size.
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The Port of Gothenburg has taken possession of the largest container cranes in northern Europe, with the delivery of three units from the ZPMC factory in Shanghai, after a 64-day sea voyage. Adapted for the new generation of container vessels, the cranes are expected to contribute to logistics efficiency, consolidating Gothenburg's position as the base port for the region.
Gothenburg adds giant cranes to quayside fleet
With a maximum over-water height of 118 m, the cranes will be Gothenburg's tallest structures. According to Magnus KÃ¥restedt, the Port's president, they are up to 50% stronger, 30% faster and have a 25% greater reach than existing equipment. "The improvement in capacity means shorter laytimes for the vessels, resulting in lower costs for both the shipping industry and for Swedish industry in general," he commented.
Along with the new cranes, purchased at a cost of SEK250m (US$34.26m), Gothenburg has deepened its fairways and reinforced its quays to accommodate the largest vessels. The new cranes can extend across 23 rows of containers on board, compared with 18 rows previously. Smaller vessels will also benefit, as there will be more cranes available overall for loading and unloading.
Goods volumes at the Swedish port have more than doubled in the past ten years. "The new cranes are part of our overall strategy of further reinforcing our position in relation to the continental European ports. We regard Hamburg as one of our main competitors and we are now moving a step closer to it," remarked KÃ¥restedt.


Duncan Sarkies is a playwright, screen writer, fiction writer and stand-up comic. He is best known as the co-writer, with his brother Robert Sarkies, of the hugely successful 1999 film Scarfies. Sarkies has won several theatre and playwright awards and his collection of dark and funny short stories, Stray Thoughts and Nose Bleeds, won the Hubert Church NZSA Best First Book of Fiction Award, now part of the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. He has been a script writer for Flight of the Conchords, and published his first novel, Two Little Boys, in 2008. Sarkies' novel, Demolition of the Century (Penguin NZ), was published in 2013.
Sarkies, Duncan (1970 - ) is a playwright, screen writer, fiction writer and stand-up comic. The rhythm and energy of performance is an important aspect of his written work. He is best known as a co-writer, along with his brother Robert Sarkies, of the hugely successful 1999 film Scarfies and 2012 film Two Little Boys.
Scarfies was shown at numerous international film festivals including Cannes and Sundance, and on its release in New Zealand quickly became one of the country's best-grossing local films.
Sarkies' plays are 'The Ceramic Camel' (1993), 'Lovepuke' (1993), 'Saving Grace' (1994), 'Snooze' (1997), 'Twelve' (1997), 'Blue Vein' (1997), 'Special' (1997), and 'Bystander' (1998). 'Lovepuke' was published in Eleven Young Playwrights (1994). In 1994 he was awarded the Sunday Star Times Bruce Mason Playwriting Award, and in 1995 Saving Grace won the Chapman Tripp Theatre Award for Best New Zealand Play (now Wellington Theatre Award). Sarkies adapted Saving Grace into a film, released in 1997.
Sarkies was awarded the 1998 Louis Johnson New Writers Bursary. His first book was Stray Thoughts and Nosebleeds (Victoria Univeristy Press,1999), a collection of prose pieces, only some of which fit the description of 'short stories'. Others more closely resemble scripts for a stand up comedy routine. All are characterised by an eccentric black humour, bizarre and poignant by turns, which can leave the reader (or audience) wondering whether the author is laughing with them or at them.
Stray Thoughts and Nosebleeds won the Hubert Church NZSA Best First Book of Fiction Award at the 2000 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, now known as the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Wild Man Eyes fuses 400 images by Matt Grace with Sarkies' words and performance, based on the stories from his award-winning debut book, Stray Thoughts and Nose Bleeds. It toured the country in 2002. Wild Man Eyes also sold out at the 2002 Fringe Festival.
Duncan Sarkies wrote two episodes of the popular HBO TV series Flight of the Conchords, which screened in 2007 and 2008 in New Zealand.
He published his first novel, Two Little Boys (Penguin) in 2008. 'Filled with laugh-out-loud moments, cringe moments, and duck and cover moments, Two Little Boys is a well-paced top-notch psycho-comedy.' (The Press, 3 May 2008) The UK edition was published in 2009 by John Murray Publishers Ltd. Sarkies adapted the novel for screen for the Two Little Boys feature film starring Bret McKenzie and Hamish Blake, released in 2012. It is also known as Deano and Nige's Best Last Day Ever.
Sarkies' novel, Demolition of the Century (Penguin NZ), was published in 2013.
Sarkies also wrote and contributed to the writing of four episodes of ABC's show Maximum Choppage that aired in 2015, and script edited for ABC's Soul Mates.
Sarkies was the director, writer and co-creator of The Mysterious Secrets of Uncle Bertie's Botanarium, a fantasy podcast series. The BBC had considered developing it into a seven-episode series, and it was finally made available by Howl. The first series, released in 2016, has 12 episodes.
Duncan Sarkies was one of two recipients of the 2015 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship, shared with fellow writer Bob Glancy.


Quick catch up cos I am really behind!
Trip to Eton, doesn't she look lovely :) ...... Ella of course!
Pudding party at Anna's! More than just two of them, which is just as well cos Anna went into overdrive with puddings!
Visit down to Dad and Sandra's. Dad taught fosterling how to play Scopa - Italian card game.
Selfie with Ella, looking great!
Trip to Windsor - not the castle, just the outside and the shops! Next time maybe.
How much do I love my bestie? Let me count the ways ...... Cutting up over 800 pennants for her sons wedding!
And a trip to America!!! More about that in the next post.
WOW!! What a busy but fun month! We visited Windsor Castle on that high school trip to England and France I went on in 1982. I don't remember much except the amazing doll house that used to belong to one of the Queens when she was little.
Like you there was a time i was also afraid of flying when i was a grade 10 student. But lately now i have to travel a lot and my fears are now faded away and this is why i would recommend you travel.


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static TtfFileInfo 	FromStream (Stream stream)

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string 	FontName [get]

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          static TtfFileInfo XLabs.Utilities.TtfFileInfo.FromStream
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Creates TtfFileInfo from System.IO.Stream.

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TtfFileInfo if successful, otherwise null.

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          string XLabs.Utilities.TtfFileInfo.FontName

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Gets the Font Name.

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Gets the count of tables in the file.

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Q: Async write file million times cause out of memory Below is code:
var fs = require('fs')

for(let i=0;i<6551200;i++){
    fs.appendFile('file',i,function(err){

    })
}

When I run this code, after a few seconds, it show:
FATAL ERROR: CALL_AND_RETRY_LAST Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory

and yet nothing in file!
my qusetion is :

*

*why is no byte in file?

*where cause out of memory?

*how to async write file in for loop no mater how large the write times?

thanks advance.

A: Bottom line here is that fs.appendFile() is an asynchronous call and you simply are not "awaiting" that call to complete on each loop iteration. This has a number of consequences, including but not limited to:

*

*The callbacks keep getting allocated before they are resolved, which results in the "heap out of memory" eventually being reached.

*You are contesting with a file handle, since you the function you are employing is actually opening/writing/closing the file given, and if you don't wait for each turn to do so, then you're simply going to clash.
So the simple solution here is to "wait", and some modern syntax sugar makes that easy:
const fs = require('mz/fs');

const x = 6551200;

(async function() {
  try {
    const fd = await fs.open('file','w');
    for (let i = 0; i < x; i++) {
      await fs.write(fd, `${i}\n`);
    }
    await fs.close(fd);
  } catch(e) {
    console.error(e)
  } finally {
    process.exit();
  }
})()

That will of course take a while, but it's not going to "blow up" your system whilst it does it's work.
The very first simplified thing is to just get hold of the mz library, which already wraps common nodejs libraries with modernized versions of each function supporting promises. This will help clean up the syntax a lot as opposed to using callbacks.
The next thing to realize is what was mentioned about that fs.appendFile() in how it is "opening/writing/closing" all in one call. That's not great, so what you would typically do is simply open and then write the bytes in a loop, and when that is complete you can actually close the file handle.
That "sugar" comes in modern versions, and though "possible" with plain promise chaining, it's still not really that manageable. So if you don't actually have a nodejs environment that supports that async/await sugar or the tools to "transpile" such code, then you might alternately consider using the asyncjs libary with plain callbacks:
const Async = require('async');
const fs = require('fs');

const x = 6551200;

let i = 0;
fs.open('file','w',(err,fd) => {
  if (err) throw err;

  Async.whilst(
    () => i < x,
    callback => fs.write(fd,`${i}\n`,err => {
      i++;
      callback(err)
    }),
    err => {
      if (err) throw err;
      fs.closeSync(fd);
      process.exit();
    }
  );

});

The same base principle applies as we are "waiting" for each callback to complete before continuing. the whilst() helper here allows iteration until the test condition is met, and of course does not do the next iteration until data is passed to the callback of the iterator itself.
There are other ways to approach this, but those are probably the two most sane for a "large loop" of iterations. Common approaches such as "chaining" via .reduce() are really more suited to a "reasonable" sized array of data you already have, and building arrays of such sizes here has inherent problems of it's own.
For instance, the following "works" ( on my machine at least ) but it really consumes a lot of resources to do it:
const fs = require('mz/fs');
const x = 6551200;

fs.open('file','w')
  .then( fd =>
    [ ...Array(x)].reduce(
      (p,e,i) => p.then( () => fs.write(fd,`${i}\n`) )
      , Promise.resolve()
    )
    .then(() => fs.close(fd))
  )
  .catch(e => console.error(e) )
  .then(() => process.exit());

So that's really not that practical to essentially build such a large chain in memory and then allow it to resolve. You could put some "governance" on this, but the main two approaches as shown are a lot more straightforward.
For that case then you either have the async/await sugar available as it is within current LTS versions of Node ( LTS 8.x ), or I would stick with the other tried and true "async helpers" for callbacks where you were restricted to a version without that support

You can of course "promisify" any function with the last few releases of nodejs right "out of the box" as it where, as Promise has been a global thing for some time:
const fs = require('fs');

await new Promise((resolve, reject) => fs.open('file','w',(err,fd) => {
  if (err) reject(err);
  resolve(fd);
});

So there really is no need to import libraries just to do that, but the mz library given as example here does all of that for you. So it's really up to personal preferences on bringing in additional dependencies.

A: 1 - The file is empty because none of the fs.append calls have ever finished, the Node.JS process broken before.
2 - The Node.JS heap memory is limited and stores the callback until it returns, not only the "i" variable.
3 - You could try to use promises to do that.
"use strict";

const Bluebird = require('bluebird');
const fs = Bluebird.promisifyAll(require('fs'));

let promisses = [];
for (let i = 0; i < 6551200; i++){
    promisses.push(fs.appendFileAsync('file', i + '\n'));
}

Bluebird.all(promisses)
.then(data => {
  console.log(data, 'End.');
})
.catch(e => console.error(e));

But no logic can avoid heap memory error for a loop this big. You could increase Node.JS Heep Memory or, the reasonable way, take chunks of data for interval:
'use strict';

const fs = require('fs');

let total = 6551200;

let interval = setInterval(() => {
  fs.appendFile('file', total + '\n', () => {});
  total--;
  if (total < 1) {
    clearInterval(interval);
  }
}, 1);

A: Javascript is a single threaded language, which means your code can execute one function at the time. So when you execute an async function, it will be "queued" in the stack to be executed next.
so in your code, you are sending 6551200 calls to the stack, which would of course crash your app before starting working "appendFile" on any of them.
you can achieve what you want by splitting your loop into smaller loops, use async and await functions, or iterators.
if what you are trying to achieve is as simple as your code, you can use the following:
const fs = require("fs");

function SomeTask(i=0){
    fs.appendFile('file',i,function(err){
        //err in the write function
        if(err) console.log("Error", err);
        //check if you want to continue (loop)
        if(i<6551200) return SomeTask(i);
        //on finish
        console.log("done");
    });
}
SomeTask();

In the above code, you write a single line, and when that is done, you call the next one.
This function is just for basic usage, it needs a refactor and use of Javascript Iterators for advanced usage check out Iterators and generators on MDN web docs

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NFCDCU Offers `How To' Manual
NEW YORK - The National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions has updated a manual for groups considering whether or not, and how, to charter a community development credit union and has made the manual available through its Web site. "We recognize that many community groups aspiring to organize a...
By Staff Writer | Updated on July 15, 2003
NEW YORK – The National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions has updated a manual for groups considering whether or not, and how, to charter a community development credit union and has made the manual available through its Web site. "We recognize that many community groups aspiring to organize a CDCU start on a `bootstrap,' " the Federation said. " Through this site, you can obtain answers to many of your questions at no cost." The Federation invites organizations thinking about whether or not to seek a credit union charter to download a chapter from the manual dedicated to helping them make that decision. If they are interested in going forward, the Federation invites them to purchase a print copy of the entire manual for $95. According to groups which have recently chartered credit unions, the process of getting started can take as long as four years.


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Over 23 million breached accounts were using '123456' as password
A cyber survey conducted by the United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) revealed that '123456' is still the most hacked password.
Security experts at the United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) analyzed the 100,000 most-commonly re-occurring breached passwords using data from Have I Been Pwned (HIBP).
Have I Been Pwned allows users to search across multiple data breaches to see if their email address has been compromised.
The NCSC discovered that 23.2 million user accounts worldwide were using '123456' as password, while 7.7 million users were using '123456789'.
This data is disconcerting and shows that we are far from to be secure even if security experts continue to warn users of cyber risks associated with the use of weak passwords.
Of course. the list of most-hacked passwords also includes other simple items like 'qwerty', 'password' and '1111111,' in top five, a gift for the hackers.
The list of top breached passwords includes names, musicians, football team names, and fictional characters.
"The NCSC has also today published separate analysis of the 100,000 most commonly re-occurring passwords that have been accessed by third parties in global cyber breaches." reads the post published by the NCSC.
"The results show a huge number of regularly used passwordsbreached to access sensitive information."
Data reported by NCSC are aligned with findings from other similar studies conducted by security firm. In December, SplashData published for the 8th year in a row the worst passwords list, the annual report based on the analysis of more than 5 million leaked passwords. Below the 2018 top 10 most used passwords published by SplashData:
iloveyou
Experts suggest the adoption of strong passwords and the usage of a unique password for every service they access. Passwords should contain at least 8 characters, upper and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols (i.e. %$#!.). Another good practice is the set up of multi-factor authentication wherever possible.
Below the key findings emerged from the survey:
Only 15% say they know a great deal about how to protect themselves from harmful activity
The most regular concern is money being stolen – with 42% feeling it likely to happen by 2021
89% use the internet to make online purchases – with 39% on a weekly basis
One in three rely to some extent on friends and family for help on cyber security
Young people more likely to be privacy conscious and careful of what details they share online
61% of internet users check social media daily, but 21% report they never look at social media
70% always use PINs and passwords for smart phones and tablets
Less than half do not always use a strong, separate password for their main email account
"We understand that cyber security can feel daunting to a lot of people, but the NCSC has published lots of easily applicable advice to make you much less vulnerable." said Dr Ian Levy, NCSC Technical Director.
"Password re-use is a major risk that can be avoided – nobody should protect sensitive data with somethisng that can be guessed, like their first name, local football team or favourite band."
"Using hard-to-guess passwords is a strong first step and we recommend combining three random but memorable words. Be creative and use words memorable to you, so people can't guess your password."
(SecurityAffairs – Top breached passwords, hacking)
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Amnesty International Hong Kong Office hit by state-sponsored attack
Report: Unknown Data Breach Exposes 80 Million US Households
The Hong Kong office of Amnesty International has been hit by a long-running cyberattack carried out by China-linked hackers. Amnesty...


Mercury has just moved from Gemini to Cancer. Conversation slows down and focuses more on perception than thinking. Memory sharpens, tact increases, and interest in artistic pursuits is piqued.
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Guido Harari
Tom Waits. Parigi, 1992
Bob Dylan. Sirmione, 1984
Bob Marley, Milano, 1980
Luciano Pavarotti. Pesaro, 1998
Laurie Anderson & Lou Reed. Torino, 2002
Kate Bush. Londra, 1989
Ezio Bosso. Gualtieri, 2018
Rita Levi Montalcini, Roma, 1998
Paolo Conte, Milano, 1996
David Bowie. Roma, 1987
Renzo Piano. Genova, 1998
Ennio Morricone. Roma, 1998
Miuccia Prada, fashion designer. Milan, Italy, 1999
Dario Fo & Franca Rame. Milano, 1996
Born in Cairo (Egypt), Guido Harari started the dual profession of photographer and music journalist in his early twenties, helping to lay the foundations of unparalleled specialist work in Italy and collaborating with magazines such as Ciao 2001, Giovani, Gong and Rockstar.
Since the nineties, his range of activities also includes advertising, institutional portrait, social media reportage, and graphic design.
He has worked with leading Italian and international music artists such as Claudio Baglioni, Andrea Bocelli, Angelo Branduardi, Vinicio Capossela, Paolo Conte, David Crosby, Pino Daniele, Bob Dylan, BB King, Ute Lemper, Ligabue, Mia Martini, Antonella Ruggiero, Paul McCartney, Gianna Nannini, Michael Nyman, Luciano Pavarotti, PFM, Lou Reed, Vasco Rossi, Simple Minds and Frank Zappa.
He worked with Kate Bush, photographing 'behind the scenes' while she was working on the film The Line, The Cross & The Curve among other things.
In 2011 he founded the Wall Of Sound Gallery in Alba, where he lives. It's the first photo gallery in Italy entirely dedicated to music.
Guido Harari personal web site


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THE JAMES MUSEUM FROM HOME' OFFERS WEEKLY ONLINE CONTENT AND INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCES
While the museum is temporarily closed, visitors can stay connected with the museum through weekly videos, articles, storytelling, art activities and more.
ST. PETERSBURG, FL (April 1, 2020) – The James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art offers numerous ways to stay engaged and enriched with newly curated weekly content available online for free. Every Tuesday, "The James Museum from Home" will release a new theme related to the collection and post interactive content for audiences to enjoy. The theme for this week is Cowboys.
"We hope to give our audience respite and delight by sharing the stories of the American West both past and present," said Laura Hine, executive director of The James Museum. "The James Museum from Home is allowing us all to consider and experience the museum in a whole new way."
Packed with a variety of materials, "The James Museum from Home" is a fun way the museum can offer an educational and reliable resource from the comfort of home.
Visit thejamesmuseum.org/jmfromhome
Art Spotlights – Learn more about the artists, process and stories behind six selected artworks featuring cowboys.
Movie & Book Recommendations- Take a deep dive into the diverse perspectives on life in the West and get an expansive look at what it means to be a cowboy (and cowgirl).
Story Time- Have the kids read along with these exciting and colorful cowboy-inspired books.
Art Activity- Our Youth & Family Program Manager demonstrates an easy art activity to do at home.
Just for Fun- Enjoy a little bit of computer game nostalgia. Try your luck with the original Oregon Trail game and learn about the realities of 19th-century pioneer life on the Oregon Trail.
About The James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art
The James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art opened in April 2018 and transports visitors through the rich and diverse heritage of the American West. Its more than 400 works of art evoke the spirit of a wide-open frontier and the beauty of life in the wild. The museum engages the community through a variety of programs and educational opportunities that bring our history and culture to life. Planned programming includes special exhibitions in a variety of genres, artist talks and demonstrations, art classes, docent tours and children's activities. Through exhibitions and education programs, The James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art emphasizes the core values of art that moved Tom and Mary James: action, fortitude, heritage and integrity.


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Concert/Film/TV Reviews
[Review] Superfly: Mastering the Chessboard
By Ismael AbduSalaam June 15, 2018
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Superfly for a new generation.
When you view life as a chessboard, everyone in your circle becomes a pawn in your end game. You can argue its Grade-A psychopathic behavior. But when your trade is the drug game, it's a trait that's essential to keeping you breathing. Enter Superfly, the slick and glossy remake of the 1972 blaxpoitation classic. Gone are the pimp suits and 70s slang in favor of a trendy soundtrack (courtesy of Future) and the Mecca of urban entertainment, Atlanta, serving as the landscape. But under all the glamour, is this a story worth retelling?
We begin by being introduced to Priest (Trevor Jackson), a young shot-caller who immediately shows us his presence by talking down a rowdy rapper and two goons that owe him money. The prevailing message, which is hinted at several times over the course of the film, is that Priest's street success comes from his intellect and foresight over relying on brute strength. Although Jackson doesn't have the charisma of the original Superfly (Ron O'Neal), he exudes a low-key confidence which shines through whenever he puts someone in check (most notably a unruly gambler at the crap table).
Priest's motivation is to exit the game while he's ahead, meaning he needs "one last score" to set him up for life. Problem is, Priest's the only one in his circle who feels that way. Eddie, his second in command and played by Jason Mitchell, is a jovial hustler who doesn't hesitate to use violence when the gang is threatened. And it's that hair-trigger temper that caused him to sanction an ill-advised hit on a rival crew (Snow Patrol), igniting a street war and putting Priest on the run. Priest's mentor and coke supplier, the secretive Scatter (Mike K. Williams), is also not interested in financing an exit strategy. That leaves Priest to play the dangerous game of trying to find a direct connect with the Mexican cartel.
The antagonists of Superfly are a plenty and give the plot a brisk pace. The aforementioned Snow Patrol, who you can see coming a mile away in their matching white outfits, are mostly just a nuisance. The bigger danger comes from the Mexican cartel, who don't take kindly to Priest's retirement idea. The most devious antagonists are Detective Morrison and Officer Turk, two white corrupt cops looking to extort Priest's crew.
With all this going on, we spend little time with Priest himself. We only get a brief glimpse, via voiceovers, of what drove him to crime. Perhaps the most striking aspect of his lifestyle is being openly polygamous and having the ladies play prominent roles in his organization. Unfortunately, the dynamic between the three will likely mostly be remembered for the awkward shower sex scene.
His actions and motivations also lack consistency. In the opening, you get the impression we're dealing with a master tactician who keeps his emotions in check. We see that later when he makes his case to the cartel to be their main supplier (even as they threaten to throw him out a plane). But later, he's in near tears at the death of Scatter, as if he didn't foresee the inevitable outcome of betraying his mentor and making him expendable to the cartel.
Action-wise, Director X does well with the shootout sequences. They come suddenly with visceral close-ups of the carnage. The problems come with the martial arts sequences – the slow-motion effects are more suited for super-hero films and pull you out of the film (especially when Priest dodges a point-blank gunshot matrix style early on).
Although this Superfly isn't as unique a character as the hair might lead you to believe, the storyline and characters surrounding him are entertaining enough to hold your attention.
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Heroes of the Storm Sonya Guide by hypno67: Sonya Competitive. Learn how to play Sonya using this HotS build crafted by hypno67 Learn how to play Sonya using this HotS build crafted by hypno67 MFN... Heroes of the Storm Barbarian Sonya Build Guide With Sonya being available for the free hero rotation, I wanted to give a quick rundown on optimal builds. My only credentials are that I am a Diablo fanboy, and I play a lot of Sonya.
Backstory: From the frozen Dreadlands of the north come the mighty Barbarian warriors. After surviving the destruction of her home and death of her tribe, Sonya wanders Sanctuary in search of battle and a better life for her people.... Basic Abilities Q – Ancient Spear. I find this is overall a very solid ability and I really enjoy the functionality it brings to Sonya. My only complaint is the delay it seems to have.
Having now played Heroes of the Storm for several months, with my colleague John Hoskin leading the charge on his incredibly popular Tier List, I'm amazed at player reaction to several of the games heroes. One of my favourites and seemingly the most unpopular is Sonya.... Blizzard have announced the newest patch for Heroes of the Storm, landing next week, will see changes in the public test realm for Medivh, the Last Guardian and Sonya, the Wandering Barbarian.
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2.30.4 Sonya, Medivh Rework - 2.32.0 Deckard Patch 64% 22... Last week, we were given a pretty short snippet about the Heroes of the Storm team wanting to redo a couple of the game's heroes. In particular, Sonya and Medivh were at the top of the list, with Lunara only briefly mentioned as a down-the-line rework.
Blizzard have announced the newest patch for Heroes of the Storm, landing next week, will see changes in the public test realm for Medivh, the Last Guardian and Sonya, the Wandering Barbarian.
Wrath of the Berserker temporarily turns Sonya into a force to be reckoned with, even for the toughest of tanks, as it pushes her damage to the upper echelons of the entire Heroes of the Storm cast for an excessively long period of time.
Sonya is healed for 20% of the damage dealt; this healing is tripled against heroes, to 60% of the damage dealt. This ability also allows Sonya to move through other heroes. This ability also allows Sonya to move through other heroes.
The patch has brought about several distinctive changes that have shaken up the traditional builds. If you find yourself struggling with the new Sonya, hopefully these sections will get you back into the game to flaunt your new Super, Cable, Upvote Sonya skin.


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Long-range quantum entanglement needs three-way interaction — ScienceDaily
By Addrew Shawn On May 8, 2022
A theoretical study shows that long-range entanglement can indeed survive at temperatures above absolute zero, if the correct conditions are met.
Quantum computing has been earmarked as the next revolutionary step in computing. However current systems are only practically stable at temperatures close to absolute zero. A new theorem from a Japanese research collaboration provides an understanding of what types of long-range quantum entanglement survive at non-zero temperatures, revealing a fundamental aspect of macroscopic quantum phenomena and guiding the way towards further understanding of quantum systems and designing new room-temperature stable quantum devices.
When things get small, right down to the scale of one-thousandth the width of a human hair, the laws of classical physics get replaced by those of quantum physics. The quantum world is weird and wonderful, and there is much about it that scientists are yet to understand. Large-scale or "macroscopic" quantum effects play a key role in extraordinary phenomena such as superconductivity, which is a potential game-changer in future energy transport, as well for the continued development of quantum computers.
It is possible to observe and measure "quantumness" at this scale in particular systems with the help of long-range quantum entanglement. Quantum entanglement, which Albert Einstein once famously described as "spooky action at a distance," occurs when a group of particles cannot be described independently from each other. This means that their properties are linked: if you can fully describe one particle, you will also know everything about the particles it is entangled with.
Long-range entanglement is central to quantum information theory, and its further understanding could lead to a breakthrough in quantum computing technologies. However, long-range quantum entanglement is stable at specific conditions, such as between three or more parties and at temperatures close to absolute zero (-273°C). What happens to two-party entangled systems at non-zero temperatures? To answer this question, researchers from the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Tokyo, and Keio University, Yokohama, recently presented a theoretical study in Physical Review X describing long-range entanglement at temperatures above absolute zero in bipartite systems.
"The purpose of our study was to identify a limitation on the structure of long-range entanglement at arbitrary non-zero temperatures," explains RIKEN Hakubi Team Leader Tomotaka Kuwahara, one of the authors of the study, who performed the research while at the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project. "We provide simple no-go theorems that show what kinds of long-range entanglement can survive at non-zero temperatures. At temperatures above absolute zero, particles in a material vibrate and move around due to thermal energy, which acts against quantum entanglement. At arbitrary non-zero temperatures, no long-range entanglement can persist between only two subsystems."
The researchers' findings are consistent with previous observations that long-range entanglement survives at a non-zero temperature only when more than three subsystems are involved. The results suggest this is a fundamental aspect of macroscopic quantum phenomena at room temperatures, and that quantum devices need to be engineered to have multipartite entangled states.
"This result has opened the door to a deeper understanding of quantum entanglement over large distances, so this is just the beginning.," states Keio University's Professor Keijo Saito, the co-author of the study. "We aim to deepen our understanding of the relationship between quantum entanglement and temperature in the future. This knowledge will spark and drive the development of future quantum devices that work at room temperatures, making them practical."
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Q: Format string to datetime using Spark SQL I am trying to convert and reformat a date column stored as a string using spark sql from something that looks like this...
30/03/20 02:00

to something that is a datetime column and looks like this...
2020-03-30 02:00 ('YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm')

I am not using python but simply writing sql in DBeaver directly to a spark datalake. Any help is greatly appreciated.

A: Use  to_timestamp to parse string date into timestamp column and date_format to format it to desired pattern:
select date_format(to_timestamp(sting_date, 'dd/MM/yy HH:mm'), 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm') as date


At Legacy Loft, we're all about keeping a consistent brand and making your graphics stand out! Don't you want that prospective client to remember you? Of course you do!
I taught you all about mood boards last week and how you can use them for more than just the branding process. Based on the feedback I've received, people have really found the free mood board templates helpful (catch the post & templates here). So now let's get into the brand board. Some would call this a style guide… I keep them separate, but I'll get into that later!
While the mood board sets the tone for your branding and keeps your style cohesive, the brand board compiles your brand elements to keep your fonts, logo uses, and colors consistent.
Remember all the hard work you and your designer did to create logo variations, the perfect colors, brand patterns and font pairings? Don't flush those down the toilet as soon as your branding is finished and your website is live! Create a brand board to easily reference your exact color shades, typefaces and styles!
Y'all, this is actually more important than the mood board for creating a consistent look!
Hiring a marketing pro to create an ad? Using a VA for your social media graphics? Send them your brand board! You'll never have to worry about ordering cute note pads in the wrong shade of pink, accidentally using an ugly font on Instagram, or searching through endless emails from your designer to find the correct color values!
Just as you probably (or hopefully) streamline your processes and business tasks, keeping a brand board at hand will reduce the stress and time you waste trying to track down all of your brand assets for your team & vendors.
Now I've heard some people call these style guides. In a sense, this is a mini style guide. However, a true style guide includes other standards of use. Unless you're Pepsi or Nike, you most likely don't need an entire 20-page document on all copyright usage, how much space to leave around your logo, minimum & maximum font & logo sizes, etc. While style guides ensure the utmost consistency and professionalism with your brand, they're really not necessary for us little guys.


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Women in the kitchen and men in the wilderness. An ad concept as old as time. But has its time come? The U.S. has traditionally taken a hands-off approach to regulating "traditional" gender-stereotyping in ads. But this week, the U.K. has said enough is enough.
Apt for Father's Day is the recent NY Times article entitled Gender Stereotypes Banned in British Advertising.
Thanks to our friends on the Internet, we can pull up loads of patently offensive gender-based stereotype advertising from the "good old days:
Kenwood | Source: Express Newspapers | https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/830397/Gender-stereotypes-in-advertising-gender-role-adverts-ads-sexism
Alcoa Aluminium | Source: Express Newspapers |
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/830397/Gender-stereotypes-in-advertising-gender-role-adverts-ads-sexism
Source: MindBlue LLP |
https://mindblue.in/index.php/2017/05/23/finally-moving-gender-stereotyped-advertising/
These good old days haven't fully left us. As cited in the NY Times, the U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority recently called out more recent troublesome ads, such as: (2016) Gucci using a a model who looked "unhealthily thin" in a campaign and (2019) a Porsche dealer ad showing a leather-clad woman up to her waist under a car with the tagline "attractive servicing."
As a result, the U.K.'s Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) recently provided Advertising Guidance in the UK for gender stereotyped ads.
The Advertising Guidance pointed to five specific gender-stereotypes in advertising that should be avoided:
1. Scenarios featuring "traditional" gender roles: For example, man at home with feet up while woman cleaning up his mess;
2. Scenarios featuring pressure to conform to "traditional" gender roles. For example, Women unhappy with life that can be changed by changing their body shape.
3. Scenarios featuring children in "traditional" gender roles. For example, Boy depicted as daring while girl depicted as caring.
4. Scenarios featuring potentially vulnerable groups. For example, new mom caring more about being attractive or keeping home pristine.
5. Scenarios featuring people who don't confirm to a gender stereotype. For example, ad belittles a man for crying.
On this side of the pond, we have no advertising guidelines for the depiction of gender stereotyping. The closest is in the Children's Advertising Review Unit (CARU) self-regulatory rules for children's advertising which states:
"Advertisers should avoid social stereotyping and appeals to prejudice, and are encouraged to incorporate minority and other groups in advertisements and to present positive role models whenever possible."
While some advertisers may stick to the myth that gender stereotypes help sell products, the facts of the matter show that gender stereotypes are currently not based on facts.
Gender Stereotype Myths:
1. Myth: Men are the breadwinners.
Fact: 40% of American families' primary breadwinners are women.
2. Myth: Women don't do math.
Fact: Women represent more than 40% of math majors at bachelors and master's levels.
3. Myth: Women aren't good at business.
Fact: Women-led companies perform three times better than the S&P 500.\
4. Myth: Men are good with tools and fixing things.
Fact: Just ask any wife who complained about a leaky faucet.
Don't bite the hand that feeds you. On a practical level it matters because studies have shown that 85% of all consumer purchases are made by women and 75% of women are the primary shopper for the household.
Isn't it our duty to make a better world for our kids? Ads depicting gender stereotypes don't "mirror" these stereotypes but actually advance them. I cite two interesting television-related studies. In one, male interviewers watched sexist television commercials and then later judged female applicants as less competent and remembered more about their physical appearance than their biographical information. In another, children who were raised in households without televisions had less sex-typed perceptions. But when introduced to TV, these perceptions increased.
If you're an advertiser, make sure your team is diverse – five 50-year old white men coming up with a Super Bowl commercial may not be the best game plan; and think long-term – consumers want to see commitment to change.
If you see offensive ads: Contact the brand or the FTC/FCC. Most importantly, talk to your kids about it. Like Whitney Houston, I believe the children are our future and maybe by the time they grow up, they won't know about "dishpan hands" (1941) or "husband pleasing coffee" (1963) or that "cigarettes are like women – the best ones are thin and rich" (1967) or what's meant by "it's a wifesaver" (1973).
Of course there's hope. After Ralph Kramden insisted that Alice could not go on the Raccoon Lodge's annual fishing trip by uttering the above-titled phrase, later in this same episode, he relented and Alice and Trixie accompanied him and Ed – showing that both men and women can catch the fish. Final note: At the time of this Honeymooners episode, Ms. Joan Wulff was known as the best fly fisher in the world – and as one of our best-known female stereotypes, Baseball Annie says in Bull Durham, "You can look it up."
By: Robert Laplaca
Tagged: Advertising, United Kingdom


During the preschool years children make incredible advances in their ability to create a self or family-portrait. Awareness of self and others, as well as more skillful fine motor development allow children to progress from a controlled scribble to a figure with a head and limbs with details being added as their ideas develop. The following are stages of artistic development to look for in your child's art work.
We do portraits such as these multiple times per year to see how children's perceptions and abilities change!
Thursday on News 3 at 10, Charlotte Deleste shares how a former Spanish teacher is using her skills to "Do Something Good." Join us on WISC-TV3.
Jueves en News 3 a 10, Charlotte Deleste comparte cómo un ex profesor de español está usando sus habilidades para "Hacer Algo Bueno". Únase a nosotros en el WISC-TV3.
Save the Date!/¡Marquen la fecha!
Visit El Jardín Infantil for a fun afternoon of fashion and play to support programing at El Jardín Infantil. We will be hosting a multi-consultant LuLaRoe sale.
This fundraiser will help us put in beautiful wood laminate floors for the children to enjoy playing on. Can you imagine our space with updated flooring? We can! We've been dreaming of it all along!
Visiten El Jardín Infantil para una tarde divertida de ropa de moda y diversión para apoyar a nuestro programa El Jardín Infantil. Presentamos una venta de más que un consultor de LuLaRoe.
Esta recaudacción de fondos nos ayudará a instalar un nuevo soldado de madera laminada para que los niños pueden gozar de jugar por encima. ¿Se puede imaginar nuestro espacio con el soldado modernizado? ¡Nosotras podemos! ¡Hemos estado soñando de esto todo el tiempo!
Here is another simple but exciting art experience for preschoolers that uses every day materials that most people have at home.
You need: paper plates, shaving cream, food coloring, a craft stick (or use a spoon!), and paper for marbling.
First spray a good layer of shaving cream on your paper plate and then add some drops of color.
Use your stick to swirl the colors through the saving cream.
When you like how it looks lay your paper over the top and press it into the shaving cream.
Pull the paper off carefully and you will see your marbling is transferred to the paper.
Use a straight edge, half a paper plate will work, to scrape the shaving cream off the finished print and let it dry.
Here are some of our young artists hard at work and a few few of their creations on display.
Congratulations to Maestra Michelle!/¡Felicitaciones a la Maestra Michelle!
El Jardín Infantil's lead teacher, Michelle Smith, was nominated for Genius Plaza's Top 5 Bilingual Educators Award. Now we need the votes to win. Please follow this link and vote for Michelle!
Nominaron a nuestra maestra principal Michelle Smith de El Jardín Infantil para este premio. Lo que necesitamos ahora son los votos suyos para ella. ¡Favor de seguir este link para votar para ella!
¡No se pierdan la fiesta gratuita!
Habrá mucho que hacer para toda la familia.
Una celebración del Día de los Muertos con actividades para niños, comida y bebidas, y una invitación para visitar nuestro nuevo centro pre-escolar. Un corte de listón por la Camára de Comercio Latino para celebrar nuestra inauguración.
A Day of the Dead themed celebration with activities for kids, food and drink, and an invitation to tour our new preschool. Ribbon cutting by the Latino Chamber of Commerce to celebrate our Grand Opening.
Debido a las lluvias, no tendremos horas de visita esta tarde. Favor de contactarnos para hacer una cita para otro día. ¡Gracias!
Due to the rains, we won't have visiting hours this afternoon. Please contact us to make an appointment for another day. Thank you!


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The concrete look in architecture and design
The concrete effect is one of the hottest design trends of recent years, thanks to the renewed sensitivity towards the urban style, a perfect transposition of modern and contemporary architecture, in which spaces are conceived as dynamic and essential structures, to be enriched and customize with original furnishings and details.
But first, let's dive into the past! The concrete effect owes its diffusion and extraordinary popularity to the architectural trends of the immediate postwar period, first of all Brutalism.
Born in the 50s of the last century in England, and subsequently developed throughout Europe, Brutalism is an immediate solution to the rubble and devastation of the Second World War, and the consequent need to rethink and build new living spaces for the community.
Le Corbusier, with his Unité d'Habitation built in Marseille in 1950, inaugurates a new season for the world's architecture, and with the quote "L'architecture, c'est, avec des matières brutes, établir des rapports émouvants" officially marks the start of the use of rough and expressive materials such as exposed concrete, used to shape new buildings, residential complexes and structures intended for the public.
Among the most important works, it is impossible not to mention the Royal National Theater and the Barbican Estate in London - the latter located near our London Urban Lab - designed by Denys Lasdun and Chamberlin, Powell and Bon respectively.
The masterpiece of Frank Lloyd Wright: fallingwater (1939), Stewart, Pennsylvania, USA
Moving outside of the United Kingdom, we can still appreciate the austere geometries of the Torre Velasca in Milan, a post-rationalist and brutalist work created by Studio BBPR, an architectural transposition of the Milan atmosphere of the 1960s, or Les Choux in Créteil, a huge urban agglomeration by Gérard Grandval whose shape resembles that of a cauliflower.
Outside of brutalism, the fundamental intuition that allowed the spread of the use of concrete in contemporary architecture had a massive influence in the construction of unique and unrepeatable works. To name a few: Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, Robert Maillart's Salginatobel Bridge, Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal and Kurashiki Town Hall, designed by Kenzo Tange.
Prague, Buenos Aires, Paris, London, New York, Belgrade, Tokyo: there is no metropolis in the world in which brutalist architecture and post-rationalism haven't left a mark, influencing future architectural trends and the world of interior design, and contributing to the birth of the industrial and minimalist style, one of the most currently used for the construction of residential and commercial spaces.
Ceramiche Caesar, which has always been a point of reference for the creation of projects full of personality and in step with the latest trends, offers a wide range of concrete-effect porcelain stoneware solutions to meet the most diverse design needs.
Built, born from the study of the influence of concrete in the world of architecture, has been designed as a renewed solution to create modern interior finishes. Thanks to its captivating colors, developed in a palette that ranges from ivory white to calm and elegant shades of gray, and to the range of large sizes ideal for maximizing visual continuity, Built is the perfect ceramic series to design large scale, adding personality without being a disturbing element for furnishings and other finishes.
Built, born from the study of the influence of concrete in the world of architecture.
And speaking of other materials... concrete-effect stoneware is the perfect trait d'union to build innovative and refined material combinations, such as those developed by Ceramiche Caesar through the Materica and Join collections: if Materica focuses on the mixture of terracotta and concrete, giving life to modern and at the same time charming surfaces, Join - winner of the latest Architizer A + Awards 2020 - focuses on the cement-resin combo, for elegant and never trivial spaces. The presence of different colors and numerous types of finishes expands the possibilities of use and completes the proposal of concrete-effect tiles, to respond to an innovative and constantly evolving market.
In addition to beauty and versatility, what distinguishes all the Caesar collections is the extreme reliability: all the ceramic series are safe, durable, versatile and unalterable, perfectly suitable for different types of use and for the natural covering of domestic and public spaces, hotels, Spa and offices.
The Materica collection revises the traditional style by using warm and earthy shades, and by reinterpretiting them through colder colors designed for contemporary contexts.
Exposed concrete is perfect for giving personality to your spaces, covering them with dynamism and contemporaneity: let yourself be inspired by all the concrete effect proposals signed by Caesar to realize your project!
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