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Did you know that Academy students are in school for 11 months out of the year? This extended school calendar is a major feature of our program and helps fight against the reality of summer learning loss that our students would otherwise experience. Needless to say, June and July have been bustling with activity! The summer began with the boys attending a two-week residential summer camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains alongside the Appalachian Trail. They had a fantastic time fishing, hiking, camping, playing, swimming, reading, and bonding with their brothers. For a lot of our guys, camp is their favorite time of year! You can view pictures and learn more about the fun we had at camp here. Students were back at the Academy in July. 5th and 6th graders spent much of their time bolstering their fundamental skills in the major subjects areas of math, reading, and writing. 7th graders enjoyed experiential learning at its finest. With the Port of Baltimore just outside the Academy's doors, they discovered all of the different commodities that come in and out of Baltimore each day. They toured the Port and Inner Harbor by boat, had an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the Domino Sugar factory, and heard multiple guest speakers from places like Maryland Environmental Science. Their July session culminated in group projects about different companies and products that use the Port of Baltimore. The boys then presented their projects to representatives of those companies. 8th graders worked on their research and writing skills. With the help of visits to the Enoch Pratt Free Library, each student researched their individual neighborhoods--the history behind them, what they are known for, and if any famous people ever lived there ( Billie Holiday anyone?). This was great preparation for their upcoming high school admissions applications. We were thrilled to welcome our first full class of 5th graders to the Academy for the July program. They came eager to learn, and we were ready to teach them! Thank you again to everyone who supported us during this exciting time of growth. At 113 boys, this is the largest student body in school history!

Easy Italian Pear Cake, a simple moist dessert or Afternoon Tea Cake. Made with creamy mascarpone and fresh pears. Your new family light dessert favorite, Pear Cake. I remember every Sunday my Mom would make a delicious roast beef and potato dinner. My father of Irish decent was the typical meat and potatoes kind of guy, no pasta for him or at least not very often. I think my sisters and I were more inclined to the Italian side. We couldn’t wait for her amazing spaghetti and meatballs dinner night to arrive. My Dad not so much. I discovered when I arrived in Italy, that Spaghetti and meatballs are a North American invention, and Italians would never serve their spaghetti with meatballs. Spaghetti is a primo piatto and meatballs are a secondo (first and second plates). That was a hard one to get used to and one that I let slip in once in a while. One thing that we all agreed on was dessert and that was always a chocolate cake with a mocha icing (I will have to make that one of these days!). My mother’s best cake, and I have yet to taste one as good as hers! I also discovered when I came to Italy was that Italian cakes, homemade-every-day-cakes were very rarely, if ever, frosted. But most of the times they were dusted with icing sugar or unsweetened cocoa. This cake and a my simple Yogurt cake are perfect for anyone who loves a less sweet cake. I find this Pear Cake a perfect example of that. It is one of those cakes that make the perfect breakfast cake. And don’t we all love a delicious cake for breakfast? Besides who can refuse the tasty combination of mascarpone and pears? Enjoy! The perfect Breakfast, Snack or Dessert Cake. Clean and peel the pears, one pear chop into medium-sized cubes and the other pear thin slices, set aside. In a medium bowl, at medium speed beat eggs and sugar until creamy, add mascarpone and continue beating until smooth. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, salt, corn starch, baking powder and baking soda. Stir in with a wooden spoon the flour mixture into the creamed mixture, stir gently to combine, then add the oil and stir to combine. Fold in the medium-sized cubed pear, spoon into prepared cake pan. Top with sliced pears and sprinkle with 2 tablespoons (40 grams) sugar (granulated). Bake approximately 45 - 60 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean. Enjoy! **Today (November 20,2016) I am adding an update to this recipe. I have remade this cake today and I am posting a video because I am convinced even more after making it again that it is one of the best cakes on this food blog. I am sorry if anyone is having a problem with it not baking but I urge you to double check to make sure that you are baking it at the proper temperature, whether Fahrenheit or Celsius. Thanks and Happy Sunday. Great cake, big hit at a holiday party. I used a little less mascarpone (not by choice: basically the contents of a container which was slightly less than 1 cup) and so used 4 T. of oil to compensate. I used olive oil, and 3 pears rather than 2 (I wanted enough pear slices to lay out nicely on the top of the cake). I also added 1 tsp. of vanilla. I’ll be making this one again. Hi Susan, thanks so glad you like the cake. I usually grease and flour the pan, let the cake cool then I take a knife around the edge of the cake and remove the pan. Hope that helps. Merry Christmas. Just made the cake today and added almond extract to the batter – yummy! But at 340 F it took an extra 30 minutes to bake! The middle was still raw batter after 60 minutes. I had to cover the cake with tin foil to prevent the edges from browning too much and upped the temp to 350 F. It stayed in the oven 30 minutes more (with me checking it every 5-6 minutes). I’m guessing it’s the water content of the pears that make it either too wet or too dry. The pears I used were very ripe and juicy. Hi Kelly, yes I am sure it’s because the pears were too juicy. You need firm but ripe pears. Hope that helps. Have a great week. Hello, I’ve been very excited to try this recipe but it turned out quite dry. Even my little’s ones commented on how dry it was. I would like to try it again but will need to cut back on the dry ingredients. Should I cut back to maybe just one cup of flour or eliminate the corn starch? With that what is the purpose of the corn starch in this recipe? Thank you so much! Hi Maria, I really don’t know why it would be dry with all the wet ingredients. But try eliminating the corn starch (corn starch is used to soften the cake) and use cake flour instead. Let me know how it goes. Your welcome, hope you enjoy it. Hi Joan, thanks so much, so glad it was enjoyed. My daughter who doesn’t like pears either loves this cake too. 🙂 Have a great weekend. Can I use an 8 inch cake pan instead of 9? Hi Monica, yes I sometimes do and it will just be higher, and it may need a little bit more of baking time. Hope that helps. I made the cake last night using cream cheese. I just had a piece. It is delicious!! Hi Marie, so glad you enjoyed it. Have a great week. not sure about the 340 American temp? would 325 work if I am using a dark springform? Hi Victoria I would probably go for 350° then. Hope that helps. Happy New Year. did you use a light or dark spring form? Hi Victoria, I really don’t know why the bottom burned at 350°, it shouldn’t have. Maybe you should check your oven temp to make sure it isn’t showing too high. I use a dark springform pan. will do another one this weekend–Bonne Annee! Hi! I made this cake for thanksgiving. It was a hit! Thank you! Posted photos and now my family in Italy is asking for the recipe. Could you post the Italian/metric version? Thanks!! Hi Steph, thanks so much and glad it was such a hit. If you go to the recipe underneath it says US Customary – Metric if you click on Metric it will give you the metric version. Hope that helps. Have a great weekend. How do you store this cake. Refrigerate or counter top?? This cake is amazingly good and easy. My family is from Sicily and are very big on fruit. This was a hit. Thank you so much. Hi Laurette, thanks. And I have to agree, my family and friends love this cake. Have a great week. I have homegrown pears that I would love to use for Thanksgiving company. How does this cake freeze? I used greek yogurt. Got great. Hi Edita, great so glad you liked it. Have a great weekend. The calorie count you gave for the cake of 387 is that for the whole cake or is for one piece? Hi Lorna it’s actually for one slice. It’s calculated by the cake being divided by 8 slices, but if you did more slices then of course it would have less calories. Hope that helps. What kind of pears work best? Anjou, Bartlett, etc? To tell the truth I think I used William’s (which I just discovered is also known as a Bartlett Pear) here in Italy, but Anjou would work too. Hope that helps. I’m getting ready to make this and have a question about the pears. I have pears that are tiny little pears so I’m not sure how big the pears you used are. Is there a weight for the pears? Hi Karen, sorry I just saw this now (time difference). The average pear I use weighs 160 grams. (3.5 ounces in 100 grams approx). Hope that helps. Hi Dajana, sorry about that, the recipe has been recalculated and yes it is really good. Let me know what you think. Have a great weekend. Have made this x3 in the past weeks… Pear season going strong.. wonderful !! Used a 1/4 c. Almond flour (replacing a 1/4 c. flour) also sliced almonds on top…,A REAL KEEPER! Hi Jane, so glad you enjoy it. Sliced almonds on top is a great addition. Hi Rose, I made this 2 weeks ago for dessert after a big Sunday dinner. I added a teaspoon of almond extract to your recipe and the end result was amazing! It was just sweet enough and delicious after a big meal. We’re having company this weekend and everyone requested I make this again. Your recipe and directions were very easy to follow. This is definitely one of my go to desserts! Hi Anne, thanks so much and so glad you all enjoyed it, it’s actually my daughter’s favourite dessert. This looks fabulous. I will make it tomorrow for desert after our Swiss raclette. Maybe I will serve it with whip cream, for a more elegant dinner version . I can’t wait to see your chocolate cake with mocha icing. I’m always looking for a great chocolate cake recipe, and can never find one. Coming soon? Hi Louise thanks so much, sounds delicious with the whip cream. Thanks for the reminder, for sure I will have to make that cake you have me craving it now. Have a great weekend. YUM!!! I made this cake this morning for myself and my husband to go with our coffee. My employer sent everyone a huge box of pears for Christmas and they were finally ripe. I had to figure out something to make with them. I didn’t have mascarpone, so I substituted (1) 8oz package of cream cheese (softened). It came out so moist and insanely delicious. Thank you for the wonderful recipe! I forgot to mention that I also substituted olive oil for vegetable oil. I think it tastes yummier in cakes than vegetable oil. Also, because I live in a high altitude area, I added (1) tablespoon more flour. We got 7″ of snow already this morning, so this was a delight to make and have while looking outside at the snow. How lucky you are, I miss the snow. Enjoy. Hi Shawn, so glad you liked it and Cream cheese is a good substitute for Mascarpone. Have a wonderful Christmas. Hi Rose. I’ve just made this yummy sounding cake but with apples as we have a glut of them. Reading your comments, I will say I used your weight measurements, so 250 grammes marscarpone. It took a little longer to cook but the end result is like your photo. Very pleased. We will taste it tomorrow and I’m looking forward to it. Thank you for the recipe. Cathy. Hi Cathy, thanks hope you enjoy it, and let me know, it should be delicious with Apples. Have a great Sunday. Hi again. Your cake was delicious with apples. We will be making it again. Thank you again for the recipe. Hi Cathy, so glad to hear that, I will have to try it with apples too! Have a great weekend. Is it 1c or 1/2 c mascarpone?? Hi Rita, sorry about that it should be 1 cup, thanks. Let me know how it turns out. I am so disappointed. the cake has baked for 1.5 hrs and it’s still wet when checked with a knife. The top is browned I believe from the sugar.. I am not sure what to expect when I try a taste. Hi Josie, sorry to hear that, I just finished baking it again and making a video and it turned out amazing. I think you might have set your oven at the celsius temperature instead of Fahrenheit. (170°C instead of 350°F). Because it baked up in approximately 45 minutes. Let me know. I see vegetable oil in ingredients but I can’t find it in the recipe when should I add it? Any hints about slicing the pear to go on top. Hi Penny, just make sure you peel, core and slice quite thin the pear. And make sure the pear isn’t too ripe, not mushy. Hope that helps. Hi Heidi, so sorry to hear that, I have no idea why, and yes all the ingredients are correct. Did you remember to add the mascarpone? It really shouldn’t be overly dry. Let me know. This cake looks delicious! I wonder if I can substitute ricotta for mascarpone? Thank you! Hi Alma, I don’t know how that would work because they are totally different types of cheese. Ricotta is grainy, and Mascarpone is like a thickened cream, with totally different tastes. If you want to experiment, why not? Let me know if you do try it. Have a great weekend. I have never seen Mascarpone in a local grocery store where I live. I wonder how it would be to use sour cream?! What would you recommend as a substitute if this item cannot be found? Hi Dwan, I found this as a substitute 16 ounces cream cheese, 1/3 cup sour cream and 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream. Blend them together until smooth. Hope that helps. Let me how it goes. Hi Rosie, the original recipe was 1/2 cup which is 125 grams and not 250 (as you correctly said), so I should have corrected the grams and not the cup. I think people used the 1/2 cup of mascarpone. What did you use? I’m sure either would work, just as you said one moister than the other. I wanted to re make it myself but my oven broke. But when I do I will update. Thanks have a great week. Recipe states 1/2cup (250gms) Mascarpone. Well 250gms is 1 full cup. Just made the cake and used all weight measurements. Hopefully it comes out alright. Hi Rosie, yes you are right. Did you use the cup measurements? Let me know what you think. Thanks. I corrected the instructions. I made this cake yesterday for my Italian husband, who loves pears. I wanted to use up a couple of leftover pears I’d poached for a tart earlier in the week and was looking for a new recipe. It was pouring rain and I almost didn’t go out for mascapone (I considered using plain greek yogurt, which we always have in the fridge, instead) but in the end I did go to the store and the cake was a hit. I topped it with a handful of toasted, slivered almonds. Hi Robin, so glad you enjoyed it, sometimes it pays to go out for missing ingredients. 🙂 Have a great day. This pear cake looks delicious!! I have a couple of questions before I attempt it. My first question is should the pears be ripe? And the second question is the sprinkling of sugar…is it just regular granulated sugar? I hope to hear from you soon because I would love to make this as one of the desserts for our Canadian Thanksgiving dinner for Sunday night. Hi Diane, I used firm but ripe pears (so not overly ripe/mushy) and yes granulated sugar. Let me know how you like it. Have a great weekend. Made this Sunday night for the family dinner. It was delicious. Served it with a little whipped cream on the side. A big hit. Thanks for posting this one. Loved it! Hi Joaquim, so glad you all enjoyed it! Sounds great with the whipped cream. Made this for the family dinner on Sunday. It was delicious. A big hit with everyone. I severed it with a little whipped cream on the side. So good. Definitely will make it again. Thanks for putting it up! This looks so tasty! I would serve this anytime of the day. I hope to visit Italy some day. Hi Tina Marie, thanks hope you get to visit Italy. This pear cake looks fantastic for breakfast! It’s so fun to learn about Italy from your travels. Who knew the meatballs weren’t Italian? My mother is German and this dessert looks like something she would have made. I think this would make a perfect summer dessert! Thanks for sharing this great post at the This Is How We Roll Link Party. I can’t wait to see what you bring next week! I am sharing this on one of my social medias! This looks really delicious, thank you for sharing. I’m always looking for great pear recipes because my husband loves them! I stopped over from Inspire Me Monday. Hi Jessy, thanks hope you and your husband enjoy the cake. Thanks for stopping by. What a beautiful cake!! Thank you so much for linking up at Tasty Tuesday! Your recipe has been pinned to the Tasty Tuesday Pinterest board! Please join us again this week! Hi Katherine, thank you, I will be sure to share. Visiting from Tasty Tuesday. I’m not a huge fan of pears but this cake looks perfect to accompany a mug of tea. I would love for you to stop by and share this and other recipes with us over at Sweet and Savoury Sunday. Have a great day! Hi Sophia, thank you, have a great day! That looks so good and moist! I love pears — so many people forget about them and do more apple desserts. I’ll have to make this cake. By the way, great minds must thing alike 🙂 I made a pear dessert this week but it wasn’t anything fancy. Hi Marisa, So true, pears are so good to bake with, very under-rated :). Have a great Sunday. This looks lovely, I’m going to try it this week. Hi Kathryn, thank you let me know how it goes. Have a great Sunday.

John Bintliff is Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology at Leiden Universiteit. He studied archaeology and anthropology in Cambridge where he also received a Ph D with a thesis on the prehistory of human settlement in Greece. Before researching and teaching at Leiden Universiteit he was Lecturer at Bradford University and Durham University. Since 1978 he has been codirecting the Boeotia-project which investigates the origins of settlement in Central Greece.

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The South Bruce Peninsula Safe Communities Committee held a poster contest for high school students attending Peninsula Shores Distrcit School. The contest was sponsored by the United Way of Bruce Grey and the Community Foundation Grey Bruce. On December 10th the Committee judged the contest and these are the winners! Making the most of holiday shopping, round up to support!

pomegranate is a python package which implements fast, efficient, and extremely flexible probabilistic models ranging from probability distributions to Bayesian networks to mixtures of hidden Markov models. The most basic level of probabilistic modeling is the a simple probability distribution. If we’re modeling language, this may be a simple distribution over the frequency of all possible words a person can say. The next level up are probabilistic models which use the simple distributions in more complex ways. A markov chain can extend a simple probability distribution to say that the probability of a certain word depends on the word(s) which have been said previously. A hidden Markov model may say that the probability of a certain words depends on the latent/hidden state of the previous word, such as a noun usually follows an adjective. The third level are stacks of probabilistic models which can model even more complex phenomena. If a single hidden Markov model can capture a dialect of a language (such as a certain persons speech usage) then a mixture of hidden Markov models may fine tune this to be situation specific. For example, a person may use more formal language at work and more casual language when speaking with friends. By modeling this as a mixture of HMMs, we represent the persons language as a “mixture” of these dialects. On Windows machines you may need to download a C++ compiler. For Python 2 this minimal version of Visual Studio 2008 works well. For Python 3 this version of the Visual Studio build tools has been reported to work. No good project is done alone, and so I’d like to thank all the previous contributors to YAHMM and all the current contributors to pomegranate as well as the graduate students whom I have pestered with ideas. Contributions are eagerly accepted! If you would like to contribute a feature then fork the master branch and be sure to run the tests before changing any code. Let us know what you want to do on the issue tracker just in case we’re already working on an implementation of something similar. Also, please don’t forget to add tests for any new functions. © Copyright 2016, Jacob Schreiber. Revision 1b4b7564.

You may have heard about helping kids have a growth mindset. This idea, discovered by Psychologist Carol Dweck, is simple, yet has huge effects on people’s learning, motivation and ability to succeed. In short, a growth mindset means having the belief that everyone can learn and grow starting right from where they are. It is the first part of the Bounceback Parenting Credo. Teaching our kids to have a growth mindset is great, but how powerful would it be if we as parents could take on a growth mindset about our relationship with our kids? I’ll give you a not so subtle hint: it’s super powerful. Developing a growth mindset about your parenting transforms your relationships and your experience of being a parent for the better. When I first became a mom I had a mistaken belief that if I didn’t automatically know what to do, I was a bad mom. Over time I discovered I could enjoy parenting more and develops strong bonds with my kids by shifting my thinking. I began to develop a growth mindset about parenting – realizing that as parents we’re always learning. There’s no shame in not knowing the answer yet, and the only thing you want to avoid is closing yourself off to growth. Good parenting skill are not a set in stone ‘gift’ that some people have and others lack. Parenting skills can be learned. This post contains affiliate links to relevant books. Parenting is one area we all long to get right. Even if we’re open to trial and error in other parts of our lives, we’d like to parent perfectly. And so we read and question and strive – adding one should after another to our ‘be-a-good-parent’ list. Soon, not only do we know what we should be doing, we can see all the ways we’re not doing it. Or we’re doing it wrong. Or we’re discovering what ‘should’ work according to others, doesn’t work for our family. Then the guilt descends. In this cloud of guilt and self-doubt we can no longer see a way forward. We lose trust in ourselves to make choices for our family and get stuck going in circles on a path clouded by guilt. It is the path away from growth. This is why we need to banish the shoulds, let go of how we thought it would be, and look towards possibilities for learning. That’s how we become Bounceback Parents – by taking on a growth mindset to find our way free of the guilt-and-judgment path and start down one that offers possibility and growth. In her revolutionary book, Mindset Psychologist Dr. Carol Dweck explains that we can adopt either a fixed or a growth mindset. People with a fixed mindset believe intelligence and abilities are set and spend their time trying to prove they have those traits – instead of working to improve them. People with a growth mindset believe intelligence and abilities can be improved through effort and hard work. This mindset lets people with a growth mindset develop resilience and a love of learning. The neat thing is, just by knowing about the growth mindset, we can move toward having one. We don’t have to know everything because everyone is capable of growing and learning. We can try new things, let go of things if they don’t work for us, laugh a little and try again. Having a growth mindset in relationships means that instead of feeling doomed if our family faces a challenge, we see it as an opportunity to grow and learn together. Or being in a situation where I was so angry, and knowing there was probably a better way to handle the situation with my kids, but having no idea what that way might be. I’d get even more angry, guilty, and discouraged as I worried that I was handling it all wrong. What I was missing at the time was a growth mindset. I was stuck in a fixed mindset and believed: There is a right way to parent and when I make a mistake it means I’m failing. Instead of the growth oriented belief: I will keep learning and we’ll get better at this. As I began to see that indeed I did improve in being able to handle anger, tantrums, communication and more, I developed a growth mindset in parenting and began trusting myself that I COULD keep learning. Believing you are inherently a good parent or a bad parent. Thus spending your time trying to prove to the world that you ARE a good parent, and believing when you make mistakes that it is indicating that maybe you just aren’t cut out for this job. Believing you are doomed to repeat mistakes from your own childhood. Good parenting skill are not a set-in-stone ‘gift’ that some people have and others lack. Parenting skills can be learned. Relationship and communication skills can be learned and improved. The problems and issues that arise in families bring opportunities to learn and grow. To develop a growth mindset in parenting, it’s helpful to have a collection of phrases that remind you you’re always capable of learning and growth. I’m in tune with my children and I’m always looking for the adjustments we can make to improve our family life. I made a mistake and I’m a big enough person to learn from it and move forward instead of clinging to something that isn’t working. This used to work for us, or I thought this would work for us, but now it doesn’t. I can make a change when things aren’t working. You can find 10 more phrases to help you develop a growth mindset in parenting here. Every time you make a mistake, every time you fall flat on your parenting face, you are opening the door to a new opportunity to learn. What a great example of life-long learning! Isn’t that what we want our children to see? We can show them how to continue learning and growing all through their lives. Very nice post, impressive. Its quite different from other posts. The way you have presented your content on relationship with parents and kids are simply awesome. Thanks for sharing. Check out this website to get a guide on how to teach children of all age groups.

Gold to Continue Higher as the USD Pauses? We are seeing a relatively boring Friday session so far today. The USD has been moving higher over past sessions but the DXY index is approaching short term resistance here. After the index bounced on the 200-day average, it is now trading right at the mid-January highs. In our view the USD is rather stuck in a range. Nothing to get really excited about, but should the DXY take a breather here, gold could be reigniting the trajectory higher again. Gold continues trading within the “perfect” trend channel since November lows. The trend is strong and momentum fine. For a meaningful break out we need gold to close above recent highs around the 1325 level. As we have been mentioning, gold and fear index VIX have been moving in tandem over past months. The relationship can’t hold long term for mathematical reasons as vol is mean reverting, but note how the vol spike yesterday gave gold a nice push higher, although we still prefer long vol to long gold for the “fear” hedge.

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It’s no secret that the internet is changing the way we travel. So much so that international online travel platforms are racing to meet the demands of tomorrow’s travelers as they search for their next destination. Providing reliable information has always been key, but, increasingly, an appealing presentation seems to be the secret to capturing people’s attention. Music, online tours, panoramic images, videos and interviews allow the user to digitally experience a destination before they travel. For these online platforms to survive, they need to offer something special, which is exactly the case with the interactive website YouGoCulture. Created by Athens University, YouGoCulture provides a digital introduction to Greek culture and heritage. The site is designed for international visitors to Greece and is entirely in English. It has been operational for almost a year, currently offering nine digital destinations: Mystras, Lavrio-Sounio, Elefsina, Marathon, Mycenae, Ancient Olympia, Messene, Epidaurus and Athens. Five more are set to be added in the near future (Limnos, Delos, Knossos and Delphi), while another 16 are in the pipeline. The project has the support of Athens University Rector Thanos Dimopoulos and is funded by the institution’s Supplementary e-Learning program, through which many of its entries are evaluated. Kathimerini asked the man in charge of yougoculture.com, Panagiotis Petrakis, a professor of economics at the university, how the website came about. “We had the idea in 2016, when we started using online education programs from around the world, in English. We realized the programs with the highest demand were those that showcased Greek civilization, which inspired us to develop a side project with which we would explore how to familiarize foreign visitors with Greek culture. We should add that among the destinations under development are Syracuse in Sicily, Odessa in Ukraine and Alexandria in Egypt, as YouGoCulture is interested in covering the full breadth of Greek civilization, traveling to places of interest around the world where the Greeks put down roots and left their mark,” he said. “It is for this reason that we are reaching out to people of Greek heritage abroad, as we are doing with the local communities of proposed locations within Greece, looking for collective support,” Dimopoulos added. The website’s advantage over the competition is the guaranteed reliability it has as a project by the university, as well as its pleasing presentation and interesting features. The team leading the project, among whom are professors of classical archaeology Vassilis Lambrinoudakis and Petros Themelis, and theater studies professor Platon Mavromoustakos, makes sure the project only works with reliable partners. It should be pointed out that all the content used by YouGoCulture is original, created for the website. This includes the texts, images, 360-degree panoramas and the many videos by director Elpida Skoufalou. The videos are beautifully composed, while taking great care as to the way both monuments and people are depicted. With short interviews, YouGoCulture also shows aspects of modern life in the destinations proposed. The site features music composed by Elias Pierrakos and includes an interactive map with which to navigate the various locations. YouGoCulture is nonprofit, fully funded by the university and donations raised via a crowdfunding campaign. It is also supported by Act4Greece, a National Bank of Greece initiative aimed at promoting social and developmental banking which coordinates with a number of institutions, such as the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, the John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, the Bodossaki Foundation, the Hellenic National Commission for UNESCO, and the Hellenic Network for Corporate Social Responsibility. We asked professor of media organization and policy and media adviser Stylianos Papathanassopoulos what kind of reception the project has received. “The traffic our website is getting is remarkable, especially considering that our advertising campaign to date has depended only on word of mouth and people sharing on social media. YouGoCulture has become well known because people want to talk about it and share it with their friends, and I think that shows how successful it is. We know the project resonates with people because our funding is increasing thanks to donations through the Act4Greece program, which most Greeks don’t even know about,” he says. “Reaching as many people as possible has to be the university’s main goal, not just to ensure continued funding, but also to adapt to the modern culture landscape,” he says.

Tanuku Railway station is situated in Tanuku, Andhra Pradesh. Station code of Tanuku is TNKU. Here are some trains that are passing through Tanuku railway station like Cocanada Exp, Cocanada Exp, Visakha Exp, Visakha Express, Seshadri Expres, Sheshadri Exp, Vskp Link Exp, and many more.

Ateliers Westerdok’s former name was Atelier Sanne and was located in the former ROC building at the Westerstraat 187 in Amsterdam. Starting at 1997 several drawing and painting courses were given here for children and adults. At the start of 2009 the studio moved to the Westerdok. Ateliers Westerdok is part of a new artist’s breeding ground on the Westerdok island. Ateliers Westerdok strives to have as many people as possible take part actively in making visual art. Lessons are given in drawing and painting for groups of adults, youths and children. There’s an open walk-in studio and lectures, dinner parties for artists and film evenings are organized. Moreover workshops are organized for organizations and companies. To offer a wide range of art education is the starting point. There is attention for craftsmanship and technique, but in the end an individual, present-day interpretation is central in all of our lessons and in the development of the participants. The teachers are professional artists with a modern art-education, who are often connected with a gallery and give lessons with a refreshing attitude. Ateliers Westerdok is located on Westerdokseiland in the centrum of Amsterdam, which is at a continuation of the Prinsengracht. The address is Westerdok 318, the entrance is around the corner: Winthontstraat 13.

In 1969, David Straus turned 19th Century historic buildings between Commerce Street and the San Antonio River into River Square with the fabulous Stockman Restaurant. In 1984, Hap Veltman and Bob Buchanan assumed the restaurant lease and subsequently bought those buildings plus the one on the corner. They planned to have a Mexican restaurant at river level but needed to create more space in the bedrock footing the buildings. The rumble of jackhammers and earth-moving equipment chewed up the rock and removed it. A new foundation was created for the old, thick-walled limestone buildings. Now, the place needed a name. They asked their partner Tom Chambers of Fort Worth for the name of the most popular Mexican restaurant there. Chambers revealed that it was the Original Mexican Restaurant. Buchanan was astonished. The Original Mexican Restaurant of San Antonio, founded in 1899 and closed in 1960, was just across the River on Losoya Street. They were granted permission to use the name by the Farnsworths, the restaurant’s owners. In 1988, the new Original was the third Mexican restaurant to open on the economically revived Paseo del Rio. Today, the restaurant continues the tradition of serving San Antonio-style Mexican food in its lively river walk location.

Nowadays, the modern digital marketer is a jack of all trades. They are constantly faced with a variety of responsibilities and require a highly diverse set of skills. Digital marketing has come to encompass more than simple advertising, but rather involves reporting, copywriting, content strategy, creativity, email marketing – the list goes on. Luckily, the shift towards data has enabled digital marketers to better master their craft. In order to help marketers keep pace with the rapidly evolving digital world in which they operate, we’ve organized a summary of three top skills every successful digital marketer must possess. According to Statista, 2.46 billion individuals were using social media around the globe last year, and we can expect to see this number rise to 3.02 billion by 2021. For marketers, social data is where they can find key consumer insights. And with the growth of martech solutions like social listening, marketing automation, and community management softwares, digital marketers must decide how to best create value from this data by effectively organizing and leveraging it in their strategies. The challenge is no longer to aggregate data and insights, but rather to efficiently extract value from them. However, organizing a large volume of data is easier said than done. When done right, marketers can effectively target their audiences and specifically cater to their unique experiences, needs, desires, and expectations. However, in today’s day and age, this can no longer be a manual process. Successful digital marketers need to understand the importance of leveraging social data by choosing a powerful technology. Marketing technology needs to pull a large enough dataset so that your analysis is statistically significant. Once that’s done, you need to identify which elements of data align with your business’ marketing problem that you’re hoping to solve. For example, if your brand is looking to promote a new product, it’s critical to have an understanding of one, who the demographics of your target audience are, two, their digital behaviors, and finally what their preferred marketing channels are. Once you’ve got this information, only then can a digital marketer craft a successful marketing campaign. Furthermore, as a digital marketer, you must be proactive about measuring the success of your campaign, which means it’s important to not only set goals for a campaign early on, but pre-determine key KPIs to report on as well. What is our brand’s voice, tone, and personality? What formats of content does our target audience prefer? Does this story effectively communicate our value proposition? Is this content timely and relevant? Would I find this interesting? Which titles lead to the highest volume of clicks? Which topics were most engaging with customers versus prospects? What type of content had the highest ROI? Furthermore, as a digital marketer, it’s important to collaborate and share feedback on what works. For example, providing your community manager with the best content will only help them to improve client relationships. As a marketer, it is important in today’s fast-paced environment to listen to your environment. Putting target consumers at the center of every strategy is integral. Marketers must make themselves aware of what their customers have to say by listening to feedback at all stages of the customer journey. Pre-sales customer expectations are as significant as post-sale product feedback. That’s why marketing channels should be used for listening and two-way conversations. Among other things, marketers must understand the intentions, behavioral patterns, consumption habits, needs, and expectations of their target customers and integrate the consumer voice into their strategies. A good marketer evolves alongside consumers and with emerging digital technologies. New platforms are constantly pushing their way into the market while existing platforms consistently edit their algorithms. If a marketer strategically operates without flexibility, they will be left behind. Digital marketers at the top fortune 500 brands trust Digimind’s social listening tools to monitor industry trends, current events, and consumer reactions. Sign up for a free trial to learn more about how your company can benefit from powerful social listening technology.

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In October 2017, I was diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). It is a disorder that affects the large intestine. IBS involves two types of problems: 1. The movement of digested food through the intestines and 2. How the brain interprets signals from the intestinal nerves. This all leads to abdominal pain, changes in bowel patterns, nausea, bloating and other symptoms. Symptoms of IBS can be triggered by food, emotional stress, medications and hormone fluctuations. What I eat is a very important role in lessening IBS symptoms. I follow a diet called Low Fodmap Diet, which I explain more here. To sum it up, I do not eat any form of dairy, fructose and gluten (wheat protein), alcohol, carbonated drinks, fatty foods and certain vegetables and fruits because my body cannot physically digest them. And from my own personal choice, I do not consume any form of meat. Alongside food, stress plays a huge role in triggering IBS symptoms. During times of high stress, symptoms worsen because they are aggravated by stress. They do not cause symptoms, rather they provoke symptoms. I sleep more: if I do not sleep enough, fatigue can worsen the symptoms of IBS. I do yoga and meditation: the brain and colon are linked through many complex pathways and emotional stress can disrupt intestinal function and cause pain. I try and exercise: note the word try. I still eat at restaurants: I seek out vegan (and GF) restaurants in Toronto because they are everywhere. I always pay attention to every ingredient that I put into my body: when buying items like bread, pastas, crackers, chips or cereals, I make sure I read the ingredients carefully. If it lists that it “may contain milk or wheat” I put it back on the shelf. I reduce fermentable carbohydrates (FODMAPs). They are small carbohydrate (sugar) molecules found in everyday foods that may be poorly absorbed in the small intestine of some people. FODMAPs are fermented (digested) by intestinal bacteria, which can lead to symptoms of IBS. Therefore I follow a low-FODMAP diet to reduce gastrointestinal symptoms. I take a probiotic every day: probiotics are live microorganisms that provide health benefits. They are natural, ‘healthy’ bacteria that helps with digestion and offers protection from harmful bacteria in the intestines. I take vitamins: vitamin B6,vitamin B12, vitamin D, Omega 3 Fatty Acids and Biotin.

I’m often asked why I have 4 cars. It doesn’t make sense to many people why I am the way I am. I know I’m not the only one, but this scene we’re a part of, not everyone can understand it. So for my first article on this new section of the Drive4Corners community site, I thought I might explain who I am, why I am the way I am, and hopefully you’ll see how a simple machine can become such an important part of a person’s life. But not just any machine, the Ultimate Driving Machine. Historically speaking, the arrival of the motorized, horseless carriage made possible a level of personal freedom that had never been experienced by humanity. I imagine that if I had been around when the Model T was the only reasonable option for an underemployed 20-something, I would have been slaloming piles of horse manure on Main St., reveling in the new found ease of moving about. No longer would I suffer from aching feet for the simple task of heading to the general store for typical turn-of-the-century goods. But then came the opulent luxury of the 1920’s, the Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, the power crazed 1960’s, a few irrelevant decades, then my birth. By the time our modern generations were old enough to breathe on their own, the car had become ingrained in the psyche of the American populous in a way few other nations have had the privilege to experience. Our vast expanse of land and the range of people living in it had created a culture, a way of life. It manifests itself differently around the country. Head out to the sticks and the pick-up is king. “Roll coal,” as they say. If you live in a city and grew up in the 80’s, VW GTI it is. But some of us, the lucky many, come from places where more is demanded of what we drive. It’s more than just highways and neighborhoods. We have back roads, elevation changes, off-camber corners, and a need to make the experience of driving something, well, special. And, I’m sorry, but a late model Chevy Impala just won’t cut it for those of us who enjoy, nay live for, a good shove back in the drivers seat and some good ‘ol adrenaline. We all crave something, and this high won’t put me in jail as long as some of the other more well known methods of intoxicating oneself. So, let me tell you my story, and then it might make sense. I was brought home from the hospital in a 1987 E30 325i. But not just any 325. No, ours had the optional s3.73 differential. That should tell you something. See, father would not spend my childhood teaching me the in’s and out’s of such trivial things as football, or, heaven forbid, baseball. No, we were different. The home of my youth would, over the years, garage such classics as a MB 300CE, a number of E34’s, and eventually, a line of Porsche 911’s. I’ve been told that as a child I could not go to sleep unless I was buckled into a car seat. The car had to be moving, too. The illusion wasn’t enough. I craved G’s. And if you’re familiar at all with the north shore of Long Island, you know it’s a thoroughly enjoyable place to be a car guy. Picturesque Gatsby-era mansions surround sweeping corners that seem to never end. Fast forward a bit and by the time I had awkward growths on my face and a squeaky voice, I was fluent in the art of 3-2 downshifts, “granny-shifting-not-double-clutching-like-you-should,” and what would eventually be my high school parking lot and it’s oft-rain-soaked pavement. Many a donut, I assure you. And those were proper donuts. Porsche 996 donuts. E46 M3 donuts. (Thanks, Dad). Have you ever seen that video of a kid in an Audi R8 drifting on a grass field? Basically, that. And finally, it came time to have a car of my own. And there was a problem. See, I’m not what you’d call a small guy. I am what you’d call lanky, so a small car wasn’t for me. FWD wasn’t for me, either. I’m not going to explain why. It’s just too, uhh, French for me. So the question became, “What car is big enough on the inside, feels great in your hands, and will allow somebody who really cares to learn become better with it?” After test driving literally ANYTHING I could get my hands on, I came across a nifty Clown Shoe, aka the Z3 M Coupe. A dealer I shouldn’t name accepted my learners permit as a license and let me take a spin in an Estoril Blue example they had on their CPO lot. 16 years old. Puberty. S54 power. I was in heaven. I hadn’t felt thrust on that level before. The noise, the feedback through, not just the steering wheel but, every part of the car, made me feel alive. It stimulated every sense, and it’s something I’ll not only never forget, but it’s something I’m reminded of nearly every time I turn an ignition key. It reminds me that driving can be fun. This is supposed to be fun. We are not meant to tediously trundle around town. We are America. According to ourselves, we are the capital of the world. All the greatest things must be here. And they are. But they come from Germany. And as I learned in my youth, and will never forget, they are the Ultimate Driving Machine. BMW. And now, here is a gratuitous video of me doing a burnout in an E46 M3 in high school. Thanks for taking the time to read my ramblings. In the future I’ll be writing more on the lifestyle and culture of the automotive world in the 4Corners region, both the people themselves and the cars they love. I could drive at 8, shift my own at 12, and lost my virginity in a BMW. I'm qualified.

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