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Trip Overview
Our party of four are novices (first season paddlers) but we enjoy trying new rivers.
We parked one pick up at the Blackstone Gorge, our ending point approximately 7 miles away. We estimate our paddling distance is 8 miles, factoring in the twists and turns of the river.
We started out at the launch off Hartford Avenue east near the dam. We parked in the Umass Medical Center parking lot. The launch is down a path, across a small bridge, to the left.
We paddled south with our destination ending at the Blackstone Gorge which is off Rte. 122 (there are signs directing you to the Gorge). There is ample parking in both locations.
There are several points of quick water and flat water making for a nice variety that kept us engaged in our trip.
The river splits in several locations but leads back to itself each time. This allows you to take this river without having to do the same path each time.
With four in our party, we all shared in being the lead and selecting which waterways to pursue. The river has several fallen trees but we were able to circumvent each, save one: We encountered only one obstacle that was a fallen tree that was easily crossed, though we had to get out into the water. The bottom had about 6 inches of muck and silt but washed off easily.
We passed several launch sites including the Stanley Mill launch off Mendon St. (Rte 16)in Uxbridge, Skull Rock Lock (off Rte 122 in Millville)and a smaller one off Rte. 122 in Blackstone.
Before reaching the Central St. bridge in Millville, the river spits in two. The left waterway takes you through a short class I rapid until you get on the other side of the bridge. Two of us chose this path and were treated to an exhilarating experience. It was our first rapid.
The other two members chose the waterway to the right and encountered lower water and scraped bottom in several locations. However, they did pass through with needing to get out only once.
After passing the Central Street bridge in Millville, we had only two other spots of quick water. The rest of the way to the Blackstone Gorge was flat water.
The dam at the Gorge is well marked with red buoys tethered across the waterway. Make sure you keep left and land at the launch site. From there it is a very short hike uphill to the parking lot.
Ample parking at both ends
From Route 122 in Uxbridge, turn onto Hartford Avenue East and drive about 1/2 mile. Turn on to Oak Street and park in the UMass parking lot close to the bridge.
To get to the Blackstone Gorge, take Route 122. There are signs directing you to the Gorge.
Used Google maps to view our path while planning our trip. It is pretty straight forward and there was never a doubt we were heading the right way.
Trip Details
- Trip Duration: Day Trip
- Sport/Activity: Kayaking, Canoeing
- Skill Level: Beginner
- Water Type: River/Creek (Up to Class II)


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And finally is the full diet break, a period of 1-2 weeks where the dieter goes back to eating at maintenance. With the exception of Dan Duchaine (who recommended that a 10 week contest diet cycle be broken up into 4 weeks of dieting, 2 weeks off, and 4 weeks of dieting) and myself, I don't recall this suggestion ever being made in popular dieting literature. But, for a variety of reasons (the study mentioned above included), it makes a tremendous amount of sense to include a full break within the context of longer dieting periods.
Let's face it, dieting for long periods at a stretch becomes a real psychological drag. Admittedly the crash diet avoids some of this by being more extreme for a shorter period of time. Even then, for someone who is extremely overweight/overfat, it may take a year or more before all of the weight desired is lost. Expecting someone to diet strictly for that time period is simply unrealistic. Breaking the diet up into more manageable stretches, 8-12 weeks at a time with a 2 week break makes the whole process much easier psychologically, as no individual dieting time lasts all that long without a break.
Full diet breaks can also be scheduled to coincide with vacations or special events, giving them that much more utility. Since the break is now part of the diet structure, rather than an occurrence that is out of the dieter's control, the psychological effect is different. As I described above: what was a negative, a failure of willpower, becomes a positive, a structured part of the diet that makes it work better in the long-term. Experience, and the study above, shows that folks who go into diet breaks planning to make them a break (i.e. vacation) have an easier time getting back on the diet bandwagon when the break is over.
An additional issue is the metabolic slowdown that I described in the last chapter. Although structured refeeds help out somewhat, metabolism eventually slows and progress on the diet slows as well. Taking two weeks off of the diet to eat 'normally' helps to upregulate metabolic rate (including nervous system output and thyroid hormones), making fat loss occur more efficiently when you go back to dieting. Of course, this is predicated on the fact that you don't regain a tremendous amount of fat back during this period, and that's predicated on the fact that your caloric intake still needs to be kept under control.
So what does it mean to do a full diet break? First let's talk about what not to do. As with the free meals and structured refeeds, the goal of the diet break should not be to see how badly you can eat for 2 weeks, how much junk food and crap you can put into your mouth. Obviously, returning to the eating habits that made you fat in the first place is a mistake as well (see the next chapter). So how does one properly do a full diet break?
The first step is that calories should be adjusted to the maintenance level, that is the caloric intake that will maintain your current weight. I'll tell you how to do this in the next chapter which is all about maintaining your weight loss. Protein intake should be kept at the same levels (maybe even increased slightly as recent research has shown that high protein intakes after a diet help to limit fat regain) as on the crash diet and vegetable and essential fatty acid intake should remain the same as well.
The main change is the addition of more carbohydrates and fats (to raise calories to current maintenance). Carbohydrates need to be raised to at least 100 grams per day (more if you're exercising) as this is necessary to upregulate thyroid hormone levels. Dietary fat intake should come up as well, to moderate levels (20-25% of your total calories). Again, I'll give more details on this in the next chapters. If you're involved in an exercise program while dieting, you should maintain it at some level during the break; if you're not exercising, the break is a good time to start.
About the only group that usually can't even consider taking a full diet break are athletes and contest bodybuilders (maybe models) who are under a very specific time frame to reach their goals: the two weeks of dieting time that they lose may not be justified if they don't get into shape in time for the contest, competition or photo shoot. Of course, I'd mainly argue that they should have started dieting earlier so that they could include a two week diet break but this doesn't really help folks now.
So with the exception of those category 1 dieters who are under a strict time frame, a full diet break will be applicable for all categories of dieters; all that will change is how often they take a break. As with structured refeeds and the comments I made above: the fatter you are to start with, the longer you can diet without a break. Obviously, if you're only using the crash diet for purely short-term results, to lose weight for a special event, and don't care if you regain all of the weight, then just go back to your old bad eating habits when you're done. Once again, while I don't advocate this, I accept that that is what people will do. I'll discuss this more next chapter.
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This will be your opportunity to disengage, change the channel or leave the building. I know I'm gonna lose a lot of subscribers/followers with the following post but I don't care.
More Legalized Lynching!! On my way back from the annex building to the main building my co-workers and I suddenly became part of the Black Lives Matter march/demonstration along 5th Avenue. Despite the sadness and anger all races were there for the demonstration, mostly young people but Black, Brown, white, Asian. Everybody is disgusted. Yes they stopped traffic but those cars did not honk their horns because they knew. We all knew. For if this evil continues we will be judged and the judgment will bring condemnation and ruin to the oppressors!!
My co-workers & I all being Black and Brown people were caught up in something powerful. Since I am old enough to remember the Civil Rights movement being enveloped in the demonstration brought back memories and ignited something within me. I still recall my parents talking about lynchings happening during the 1960s. Seems like we have not progressed. No change! History is just repeating itself except this time the police are militarized against Black People.
The song Talking about a Revolution by Tracy Chapman is on replay in my head.
Some fling in Black Folks faces All Lives Matter fully knowing that in this racist, bigoted American society that is not true. How many times have you heard or read about a Black officer shooting innocent white citizens. Name them! Can't can you? So All Lives Do not Matter. Stop the Bullshit.
The murders of our Black Brothers occurred around July 4th so-called Independence Day. Independence for whom? That document meant nothing to Blacks captured, kidnapped and enslaved in 1776 and means very little to or for Black Americans today unless we force the issue. July 14th 1789 is Bastille Day, France's Independence celebration. What did the French people do to their oppressors? Well as history has recorded the elite, the monarchy, the oppressors met their deaths via the guillotine. No I'm not condoning violence, war or uprisings but their is little choice for Blacks in America. Very little choice. We cannot stand idly by while our fathers, brothers, uncles, cousins, sisters, etc…are killed by KKK/Nazi demonic cops!! Would you allow your family members, your people to be used for target practice? No! I don't think so!!
The officers killed in Dallas were really killed by their demented fellow cops who have been on a murder spree to annihilate Black people!! What did you think the response would be from people who are fed up. Protests, marches & demonstrations are great! Yes! Voices must be raised but as the French people did during the French Revolution, during WWII, the slave insurrections in America, the Native Americans who killed the settlers invading their lands, and every other oppressed peoples they fought against organized genocide. They fought for the right to peacefully exist in a nation hell bent on their destruction.
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If there we're no rules, what do you think would happen?
Most of countries in the world have rules for their citizens. I think rules are useful and necessary for them, but when I think about the world without rules, some words appeared on my mind: unbalance and war.
I think the reason why most countries have rules is that they want to make sure that their country would be balanced. Try to keep a balance between rich and poor, innocent people and criminals. In a country which has government rules who try to decrease the difference between rich people and poor people by taxes. By taxes, the rich people help and encourage poor people to take opportunities for working and living. But, when a country doesn't have rules, the difference between richer and poorer will increase day by day. It's very hard for the poorer to take an opportunity to get better.
How a country can develop when they're not balanced? They can be more successful if all of their citizens make effort. Further, when a country without rules, criminals can kill someone they don't like or someone does not do what they want. People in this country will certainly be scared because no one can protect them and if they don't have power, they will be killed. Murder threats imbalance; these are all problems in a country without rules.
Maybe, for the people who are friendly and love their families, their friends, their neighbors, their country and themselves, do not need any rules but in our world, I think so many people do not know how to love. Therefore, we all need rules.


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The Daily Fandom talked to Hope Nicholson about her book, "The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen." We had a chat about where she got the idea about the book and what her next endeavors are.
As you know we have a series going on about her excellent book she created. We are shining a light on some of the great ones we have seen upon reading it. In light of that, Hope Nicholson was so generous to give us an interview about her book.
1. Where did the idea come about for a Superwomen book? How did you come up with the idea of what you wanted the book to be?
I wanted to write a history book on comics, and I presented a few ideas to Quirk books who had previously shown interest in working with me.
We guided the concept together until it is what it is now! It definitely was a collaborative effort, they wanted a feminist comics book, and I wanted a history of comics book, and we managed to make it both!
2. What impact has this book had on the community of readers, comic book lovers, and feminine heroines worldwide?
I'm not sure of any impact it's had specifically, though the reviews have shown that many fans are delighted at finding out about new characters they've never heard of! That really was one of my goals, of presenting a history book in a new way, and also, maybe in a way to make fun of history books.
If any character can be part of history, why do we choose certain ones and not others? Who gets chosen and why? What is representative? So giving Wonder Woman and Superbitch equal presence in the book was something fun to do and a bit of a dig at other history books.
3. Did a lot of research go into creating this book? Or did you know some of it beforehand?
The project was definitely guided at the start by my overall knowledge of comics history, and feminist comic history in particular by the books I've read over the years by Trina Robbins.
That gave it a rough template, I knew I wanted to talk about the comics code authority, underground comics, and webcomics in particular, but there were giant holes in my knowledge of areas outside of that.
I also didn't want just to copy a lot of other history books, so I did the most legwork I could see myself, regarding data collection and analysis. That way I know at least if I made a mistake in research, it was my mistake, not someone else's I was copying!
This research included looking at data to determine what genres of comics came to prominence and faded over time. It also involved which characters were popular in each decade, and which publishers rose and fell as well.
I read a lot of back-matter, in order to get a feel of what comics were like in each decade. Such as reading a lot of letter pages and advertisements. If I could go back, I would have also made sure to read much more fanzines as well. Although, I read a few to get an idea of what the environment was like for readers then.
4. Follow up question to the previous one: did you learn something new while researching these superwomen?
A lot of what I learned was new! Two of my favorite discoveries was Helen Meyers, the president of Dell Comics. Helen testified at the juvenile delinquency hearings about comics and basically just blew everyone away with cutting through the bull.
She stated that her comics sold tens of times what the horror comics did. She also stated that the impact horror comics had was really quite small compared to the overall comic industry. The overall comic industry at the time was kid friendly and focused. But who remembers that? Still, a lot of people to this day believe that horror comics were vastly more popular and influential than they actually were.
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That's the problem with histories! Another discovery I had was researching the artist Marcia Snyder. Marcia, a lesbian artist known for her 'good girl' pinup style comic heroines like Camilla, Queen of the Jungle. She had a great output of talent and is very likely the first 'out' woman in comics. However, very very little is known about her. I didn't get much more information, unfortunately, outside of a few mentions of her by older artists, who confirm that she didn't hide her sexuality and was a great inker.
I also was fascinated by the era of 1930s pulp comics. They were very very salacious, but still fun to read. The most unusual find was a rule list given out to artists (possibly in jest) by the publishers. It stated that no man or woman in the comics would be allowed to be fully naked, except for female corpses.
5. What is something readers don't know about Hope Nicholson?
Aside from focusing on comics, my other passions are collecting vintage clothes, which seems to be appropriate for a historian!
We had a blast chatting with Hope and cannot wait to see what else is in store for her. Check out "The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen."


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10 Desserts You Can Make in a Crock Pot
Your crock pot isn't just great for making stews and soups — it can also provide you with a whole ton of delicious sweet treats too! It might sound a bit odd, and it's certainly not traditional, but why limit such an excellent household tool to solely savory creations? Use your slow cooker to the maximum of its potential with these fabulous recipes.
Cheesecake in the Crock-pot from Little B Cooks
Crock Pot Crème Brûlée from Serious Eats
Slow Cooker Berry Cobbler from Pamela Salzman
Slow Cooker Coconut Milk Tapioca Pudding from This Country Girl Cooks
Chocolate Cherry Crock Pot Cake from Pip and Ebby
Slow Cooker Chocolate and Nutella Bread Pudding from The Perfect Pantry
Slow Cooker Peach Cobbler from Spicy Southern Kitchen
Slow Cooker Triple Chocolate Brownies from All Four Burners
Slow Cooker Triple Chocolate & Peanut Butter Cake from Pass the Sushi
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A former Monroe Community College player says he feels "deep regret" for his actions on the basketball court.
Fitchburg State guard Kewan Platt was caught on camera elbowing Nick Tenaglia on Tuesday.
He released a statement on his personal Instagram account Thursday night apologizing.
Platt is from Boston but spent two years at MCC playing basketball from 2016 to 2018.
After the video went viral on Wednesday, Fitchburg State quickly suspended Platt indefinitely and barred him from campus pending the results of an internal review.
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The Boys are back just in time to preview the NY6 Bowl games! We make our picks, put a bow on our teams seasons, have a HEATED DEBATE about Lincoln Riley, and Christian is triggered!
The Boys are back just in time to preview the NY6 Bowl games! We make our picks, put a bow on our teams seasons, have a HEATED DEBATE about Lincoln Riley, and Christian is triggered!
It's here! Conference Championship Weekend! We're picking all 10 games and this is a huge week for the boys and the ATS rankings. As much excitement as there is around this weekend we're also sad because college football is almost over, but we don't need to talk about that yet.
The Boys are back and The President Of The Committee To Get Tulane Ranked (Christian's Brother in Law Jared) joins the show. Garrett is going all out against the CFB Playoff Committee, and he's looking for reinforcements. We get a little into the weed with the playoff talk. This weeks slate stinks, so we had some fun, made some picks and got ready for next week!
Our first two time guest, friend and former University of Minnesota wide receiver EJ Sardinha makes his triumphant return to the show. We're all rowing the boat! Christian went 0-5 and Garrett is back to single games under .500 ATS. Locks of the week, Call your shot, and much more!
There is no sport quite like College Football. The drama, the tradition, the players, the fans, the committees, and how often the fans tend to disagree with the committees. Every Saturday millions of fans tune in to watch their team play and unfortunately there will always be one loser. With theses losses it leads fans to go on an outrageous rampage filled with #FIRE(Coach) tweets. Here are some of my favorites from recent weeks.
Fans will do and say anything to see their team win one game! So lets all take a minute to agree that tweeting about how your teams coach need to be fired is hilarious (although sometimes its true) But most of these fans need to chill out. Rome wasnt built in a day and neither was any college football program that is having success today. If you think Alabama fans wanted to fire Saban after after he went 2-6 after taking over the team in '07, youre probably right! Guess what? They didnt and Alabama has won 5 National Championships since then. Dabo Swinney was 29-19 in his first 4 seasons at Clemson, now the team has 2 National Titles and is currently on a 25 game win streak.
Winning takes time. But it shouldnt cost you money. Why waste your time privately raising $18,000,000 to fire Willie Taggert or paying Dabo Swinney nearly $9.4 Million? There a plenty of people out there who could be college coaches and do a damn good job. Some guy sitting on his couch right now might be the greatest college football coach nobody will ever know about because a university wasnt willing to take a chance.
Football is a demanding sport, and coaching football is a demanding job. The phrase there is no off season is true, especially in college, where recruiting is a year round job. These universities need to take chances on who they hire, they need some dawgs, grinders, people who are willing to work extremely hard, work long hours, go above and beyond expectations, someone who is willing to be extremely underpaid so money can be pumped back into the program and the facilities, because if you dont have a slide like Clemson does, how do you expect to land ANY 5 Star recruits????
Basically what I'm sayin is that a college needs to let me be its head coach. Sure I never played college football and I was never a grad assistant, but who cares?? I watch enough games and read enough tweets to know how to not suck! First order of business as head coach, something insane, have a funeral for the old program, bury a football in the middle of the practice field, start a fire, WHO KNOWS, but whatever it was it would get my players to trust me. Science! Maybe i'd hire Bill Nye? But whatever school I'm at would have a lot of new internships available because I want all the sport science kids in the building to figure out how to make our team bigger, faster, and stronger. Analytics? You better believe it. I want as many math majors as possible in the box on game day. Look at me creating jobs. Oh, and we're getting a strength coach that looks like one of these guys. Every great team needs an electric factory like one of these guys sprinting up and down the sideline on game day.
I would be honest with the media, I wouldnt lie and say that we were an offensive coordinator away from a national title *cough, Manny Diaz, *cough. Guess what guys and gals, we're probably gunna stink, but we're gunna put forth a good effort to win a bowl game, and we're gunna pour a vast majority of our resources into recruiting cause in 2 years we'll be awesome.
So why not take a chance on your boy? I'll even sign a contract with a very reasonable buyout clause, a brand new Tesla Model 3, not $18,000,000, like that underachiever in Tallahassee. Under pay me, please, remember we need that slide.
Oh yeah, and I got a guy to be one of my assistants that isnt afraid to challenge other coaches to fights, his names Christian. Scared Larry Fedora so bad he's just a WR Coach now, shame, real shame.
The Boys are back to break down the initial CFB Playoff rankings. Garrett still stinks ATS but way worse than normal. Doe is on a heater, Jean doesnt believe in an SEC bias, and we pick more games and drop locks of the week!
The Boys are back after a bye week and so is NCAA football (we hope) This one also got a little off the rails. CFB Playoff Eliminator, Picks ATS, Locks of the week, and more!


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Congratulations to Dr. Jean-François Daisne, winner of the Pfizer Oncology Award 2017
At the occasion of the BSMO/Bordet meeting in Brussels on November 24th and 25th, Dr. Jean-François Daisne was honored with the Pfizer Oncology Award for his project aiming to improve the quality of life of patients irradiated for head and neck cancer : "Self administration of buccal low level laser therapy in oropharyngeal and buccal mucositis induced by (chemo)radiotherapy of the head and neck area".
Mucositis is a common complication of radiotherapy in head and neck cancers, that affect the quality of life of patients by producing pain and discomfort. The objective of Dr. Jean-François Daisne's project is to reduce pain by mobile laser therapy. The Pfizer Oncology Award supports this initiative by offering a grant of 25.000 EUR.


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Waters Touts Importance of Volcker Rule
Washington, DC, January 15, 2014
Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee, touted the importance of the recently-released Volcker Rule for ensuring taxpayer dollars are no longer used to protect banks from risky trading losses. In a statement delivered in a hearing of the full Financial Services Committee on the measure, Waters underscored that a strongly implemented and enforced Volcker rule will protect the U.S. economy from suffering another debilitating financial crisis and will ensure taxpayers are never again asked to rescue failed financial firms.
Her full remarks are below.
As prepared for delivery:
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
It's been more than five years since the beginning of the financial crisis – which resulted in the largest destruction of wealth in a generation. And while many observers still disagree about its central cause, we know that proprietary trading played a significant role. Such trading has indeed produced tremendous profits for some of our largest financial firms – but it also contributed to losses during the height of the crisis.
In fact, one academic study estimated that by mid-April of 2008, banks had lost roughly $230 billion dollars on certain proprietary holdings, which regulators and other interested parties had believed were simply inventories of assets held to facilitate client trading.
In the wake of these devastating losses, taxpayers stepped in to staunch the bleeding and Congress took action to ensure that such an emergency would never happen again, enacting comprehensive legislation to address the many causes of the crisis – from the bad loans at the heart of the collapse, to the exotic securitizations that drove the demand for predatory mortgages, to the opaque derivatives markets that created tremendous interconnectedness and risk in our financial system.
A key part of Wall Street Reform is the Volcker Rule. If properly implemented, the Rule will provide that banks insured by taxpayer dollars can no longer engage in proprietary trading or investments in risky vehicles like hedge funds.
The concept of the Rule is simple: loan-making, deposit-taking banks should not be engaged in risky, speculative activity on the backs of the American taxpayers.
Many observers of our financial system agree on this. Standard & Poor's has pointed out that, "the implementation of the Volcker rule could have favorable implications for the credit profiles of some of the largest U.S. banks, such as reducing trading portfolio risk."
John Reed, the former Citigroup Chairman, notes that, "a strong Volcker rule is one of the most important provisions to prevent 'too big to fail' financial institutions, stop conflicts of interest and support credit in our economy."
And even Chairman Hensarling has stated to the Wall Street Journal that, "we have to do a better job ring-fencing, fire-walling—whatever metaphor you want to use—between an insured depository institution and a noninsured investment bank."
In the face of their statutory directive to implement Volcker, our regulators have undertaken the tremendous task of wading through 18,000 comments – and have engaged with stakeholders during dozens upon dozens of meetings. We see the European Union potentially moving forward with a similar effort, and the United Kingdom has passed legislation implementing a similar measure, known as the "Vickers Report." All of these actions should be applauded.
At the same time, I understand that regulators are working diligently to address some issues related to the Rule that have come up in the last month, including the issue related to collateralized debt obligations backed by Trust Preferred Securities. Most of the Democratic members of this Committee urged regulators to provide an exemption for banks that would be consistent with their treatment under the Wall Street Reform Act. I appreciate the regulators' responsiveness on this point, and believe their recent interim rule has provided important relief to community banks.
Mr. Chairman, the Volcker rule will ensure federal dollars are no longer used to protect losses from risky trading. Doing so will protect the U.S. economy from suffering another debilitating financial crisis and will ensure taxpayers are never again asked to rescue failed financial firms.
And now that we have the Rule's framework in place, I look forward to conducting oversight and ensuring that our regulators are faithfully enforcing this provision, which will be central to the success of the Wall Street Reform Act. Thank you, I yield back.


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Sanskrit in modern India
The importance of Sanskrit to religious Indian people can be compared to that of Latin to the European theologians or Hebrew to Jewish rabbis. India's most important religious, scientific, and philosophical texts are written in Sanskrit. Although Sanskrit is hardly spoken in modern India, six thousand of the country's people named it as their native language in a survey conducted at the end of the twentieth century. At this point in time, nearly two hundred thousand Indian people still spoke Sanskrit as a second language. There are efforts being made in India to keep the language alive. There are Sanskrit language newspapers and radio stations. In many schools, Sanskrit is at least taught as a third language after Hindi and English.
The history of Sanskrit
Sanskrit is the oldest variant of the Indo-Aryan languages. All modern languages spoken on the Indian subcontinent developed from this language. These modern spin offs include Romani, Hindi-Urdu, Kashmiri, Marathi, Punjabi, Bengali, and Nepalese. In contrast to the colloquial Prakrit, Sanskrit has always been considered a purer and holier language. At first, many Sanskrit texts were passed down orally, centuries passing before it even partially began to be written down. The first Sanskrit grammar was recorded at some point in the fifth century BC by Panini. Our project managers are happy to serve as your contact partner in your professional translation into or from the Sanskrit language. Contact us now by email or phone.
The relationship of Sanskrit to other languages
Sanskrit is related to all languages of the Indo-European language family. Relationships also exist with Latin and Greek. For example, the Latin word for God, "deus", corresponds to the Sanskrit word for God,"deva". The noticeable similarity between Sanskrit, Latin, and Greek was first discovered during the colonization of India after incoming Europeans began to translate classical Indian literature. Sanskrit derived loanwords can also be found in the English language. Examples of this are: Avatar, guru, jungle, karma, mantra, and yoga. If you would like to learn more about this old Indian script, we are happy to be of service to you. All you have to do is contact us.
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Extra! Extra! - Brigstocke Starts Own Newspaper Shock! Comedian Marcus Brigstocke presents a two-part special focussing on the great British press. In the first episode he plunges head first into the contents of the great British newspaper and comes up smelling of Daily Mail. Plus he reveals the headline of the year that you'll never get to read... In the second episode there's sex, scandal and sa… ucy secrets on offer as Marcus examines how the great British press combine the difficult jobs of both selling newspapers and ruining peoples' lives... Joining him are regular guest stars William Andrews ("e;Sorry I've Got No Head"e;) , Margaret Cabourn-Smith ("e;Miranda"e;) and Colin Hoult (from Ricky Gervaise's "e;Derek"e;). Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, Nick Doody, Dan Tetsell & Steve Punt. This complete fourth series of the multi-award-winning show comes from the people who brought you Cabin Pressure and Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive. Duration: 1 hour approx.
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La Galera Beach
La Galera beach is in Estepona, close to Bahķa Dorada beach.
The beach is 2 kilometres long and 30 metres wide, making it a spacious beach. As it is in a semi-urban zone, it tends to get fairly busy. Covered with dark sand, it has rocky areas making our swimming trip even more natural, and providing a landscape worth photographing.
Summer in Estepona is very popular with tourists thanks to the mild temperatures which do not rise too high. The perfect place for both national and international visitors.
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GDPR experts, ClearComm become part of the Kingston Smith Group
Kingston Smith has strengthened its business advisory offering by investing in General Data Protection Regulation experts, ClearComm.
With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) replacing the Data Protection Act in May 2018, Kingston Smith recognises its clients are reviewing how they deal with personal data. The GDPR imposes more explicit obligations on businesses to process and hold personal data securely, which ClearComm's online solutions, data protection officer and advisory offerings can help address.
Kingston Smith Managing Partner Maureen Penfold comments: "The formalising of our relationship with ClearComm makes good business sense for us and our clients. Our investment in ClearComm means they can leverage off their existing technology and together we can offer a broader service to clients to help them reach their potential."
Benn Davis, Director at ClearComm adds: "We're delighted to be able to draw on Kingston Smith's expertise, impressive client base and reputation in the market. Their support allows us to further strengthen and develop our GDPR services to clients."
This strategic move builds on an ongoing relationship between Kingston Smith and ClearComm who share similar client bases.


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Our first box of 2016 is going to be tough to beat! It had a vintage floral theme, featuring soft vintage colours, patinaed pendants, and flower designs.
We might still have some of these boxes available for sale! Check out our online shop for past boxes to buy.
One strand of 6mm clear and gold round glass beads (approx 65 beads)
3 green patina rose pendants, 27mm
15 small silver metal rose spacers, 7mm
6 white porcelain beads with purple flower detail, 10mm
3 golden metal flower clasps, 27mm
5 resin flower beads, purple and pink, 10-14mm
10 antique bronze metal flower connectors, 17mm
3 handmade lampwork silver foil pink flower beads, 17mm
2 flat shell beads with printed flower design, 25mm
One strand of french grey 4mm glass beads (approx 75 beads)
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Top EA and Ubisoft Execs Slam E3 | Edge Online
It's become the sport of choice among those who follow the games industry to heap scorn upon E3, what was once the videogame trade show, full of glitz and glamor, and is now a "media and business" affair downsized to grand speeches and a few hotel-conference-room executive schmoozing sessions. The show ended because journalists hated covering it, game companies hated putting it on, and the arms race for companies to out-spend each other to have the biggest show presence added up to a mountain of bills for blaring speaker walls, costumed booth babe services, laser light shows, giant game character statues, piles of free giveaways, and other artifacts of excess, not to mention therapy bills for the poor souls having to organize such a nightmare. The legendary-Asgard-meets-rock-concert-meets-Disneyland spectacle show ended in 2006 when the major players in the industry realized that they were doing it only because everyone else was, and nobody liked doing it, but no one wanted to be beaten at it. The yearly ritual of game pundits deciding "who won E3" incurred massive publisher costs made manifest in many ways, not the least of which was the sheer logistics of getting legions of sweaty fanboys to go to your booth when everybody else's is so much shinier.
There are more likely reasons. The rise of specialized game trade shows (Game Developers' Conference, the MI6 marketing conference, the gamer-initiated Penny Arcade Expo) must have made everyone realize how inefficient it was to do all in three days in the same LA convention hall once a year. The last big E3 had record four-hour lines to play the Wii while the rest of the show begged for spare attention. Game preview downloads for consoles have made it easier for companies to create "hands-on" buzz for upcoming games (and this time, without being filtered through the press).
But, the thing is that E3 still exists as a perfunctory tradition, and game companies feel obligated to attend and at least give a nice, big speech to lay out their annual vision. However, no company is likely to "win" an E3 without the spectacle, and so there's no drooling enthusiast-press buzz the way tech magazines fall over themselves fawning over the latest shiny thing at each year's Consumer Electronics Show. ("It's amazing! This new Apple thing is the same as last year's corresponding Apple thing, but it's smaller, shinier, and does a few more things!") Something needs to replace E3, but it needs to be something that doesn't try to be everything at once.
Another important point about E3's demise is that it was not open to the public, but required credentials were loose, so you could get in if you worked at Best Buy and had connections. The result was that the show was still a logistical nightmare, a packed convention hall and a deafening roar of competition for the attendees' ever-depleting attention span, while journalists trying to do their jobs complained about the plebeian masses gumming the works of the show, the average gamer complained about not being able to get in and having to settle for blurry Internet footage from the show floor, and of course, the Best-Buy-credentialed plebeian masses were just average gamers who got lucky and now had to realize that the glory of being at E3 came with long lines and massive stress hangovers each morning after. Everyone was miserable.
…It's also worth noting that, in the time of the old E3, the Entertainment Software Association (the industry lobby) had three purposes: run E3, complain about piracy, and fight censorship. (They were also supposed to protect the industry's image, but have failed miserably. Had they been doing their jobs, a pre-emptive talk-show charm offensive before each Grand Theft Auto release–and then some–would have taken place to ensure that everyone knows what the game is and isn't, tempering unfounded fears. As it happens, I still hear about how you get "points" in Grand Theft Auto for anything, or that it encourages you to kill prostitutes, neither of which are true.) The bulk of the costs went to E3. When the massive cost to little benefit was the major reason for the universal pullout from the E3, companies aren't happy that the ESA still charges the same dues before and after the E3 downsize, leading several influential companies (like Activision and its corporate fiancée, Blizzard) to leave in a huff.
So, something needs to replace E3, because companies need buzz and the ESA needs a purpose. I've always felt the best solution here would be a travelling show… every few days for a month or so, they'd rent out a different convention hall in some major city and put on a big show, perhaps not with statues, laser lights, or booth babes, but stand-up units demonstrating the latest games and hardware. The first one could be press-only, so that they get their fill early and stop complaining about the masses. The rest would be open to the public. Preview game demos could go up online around then to bask in the popular attention, and make people who can't attend feel as though there's still a part of it. Game companies would share the cost and no longer have to bear the expense of doing individual promotional tours for major product launches.
Perhaps I'm just saying this because I'm something of a fan of modest efforts, and because nobody wants to experience the morning after the entire worldwide games industry converges on one Los Angeles convention hall. But, game companies will have to bring the show to the consumer if they want to avoid their marketing dollars reaching only game journalists, well-connected Best Buy employees, and gamers willing to refresh YouTube every five minutes for the latest blurry clips from the show floor. Ideally, a game show should be a fun place to be, a place for curious onlookers, a place to bring a date, a place that doesn't resemble a kind of heavy-metal free-for-all. If the ESA can't do this, they should shrink, reduce their dues, admit defeat, and help gamer-focused projects like Penny Arcade Expo take the place of their noisy, flamboyant money sinks.


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by Brianna Crandall — March 27, 2019 — RAVE Reviews, an innovative site that publishes entertaining rankings based on advanced data-driven analysis, has published a ranking series of the "Best Office Chairs."
RAVE Reviews points out that an increasing number of people spend most of their lives sitting behind a desk, which can either be a productive and profitable use of time or a "miserable slog." One of the biggest factors making this determination is the type of chair that they use on a daily basis. Quality of life 40+ hours a week is something that can't be overlooked, so RAVE Reviews went out and found the best office chairs that will help make your day more enjoyable.
Now, the best office chair will look different for just about everyone, cedes the site. RAVE's overall choice, the Herman Miller Sayl, is an all-around solid chair that has something to offer for every taste. However, RAVE understands that some people just can't get comfortable without an ergonomically maxed-out chair or without being able to enjoy the soothing scent of a leather chair. If you fall into either of these categories, RAVE says not to worry, there are chairs for you in this ranking series. Don't make work harder for yourself than it already is — it's time for a new chair, says RAVE.
Hillary Miller, managing editor for RAVE Reviews, remarked:
I know all too well how much unpleasantness a low-quality chair causes. Unfortunately, most people don't even realize how bad their chair is until they upgrade. Really evaluate your chair next time you sit in it. It's probably time to get a new one. RAVE has you covered with this series of rankings.
In determining which chairs to feature, RAVE compared reviews from sources across the internet and took into account multiple factors such as degree of lumbar support, fabric, chair size, number of adjustable features, and overall functionality.
The full list of featured products includes:
- Alera Elusion Swivel Chair
- AmazonBasics Mid-Back Office Chair
- Eurotech Ergohuman
- Flash Furniture Mid-Back Mesh Chair
- Herman Miller Aeron Chair
- Herman Miller Embody Chair
- Herman Miller Sayl Chair
- HON Exposure Mesh Task Chair
- Humanscale Freedom
- KADIRYA High Back Mesh Office Chair
- MBOO Ergonomic Office Chair
- Serta Mid-Back Office Chair
- Steelcase Gesture Chair
- Steelcase Leap Fabric Chair
- Topsky Mesh Chair
RAVE's review page includes what to look for in an office chair, how to maintain proper posture, the best way to get rid of old office chairs, and other information and tips, as well as listing these three overall favorite chairs:
- Best Overall Office Chair: Herman Miller Sayl Chair
- Best Budget Office Chair: AmazonBasics Mid-Back Office Chair
- Best Luxury Office Chair: Eurotech Ergohuman
RAVE's 10 Best Office Chairs for 2019 are:
- Herman Miller Sayl Chair
- Steelcase Gesture Chair
- Eurotech Ergohuman
- Herman Miller Aeron Chair
- Steelcase Leap fabric Chair
- AmazonBasics Mid-Back Office Chair
- Herman Miller Embody Chair
- Alera Elusion Swivel Chair
- HON Exposure Mesh Task Chair
- Humanscale Freedom
RAVE also released rankings of the 10 Best Ergonomic Office Chairs for Back Pain for 2019.


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Pump 'Respect Pack'
I'm going to say this straight up: 'Respect' is not a positive word for any multinational company to be using, regardless of its theoretically naive and positive intentions. 'Respect' within US, Black or Hip Hop cultures has the much darker meaning of 'Fear', and I'm not entirely comfortable with Reebok Classics using this. My chagrin aside, this is a collection of Reeboks' most prestigious and infamous footwear all dressed up in a unified colourway – something it does well, certainly helped by group shots.
Featuring the Twilight Zone, Omni Lite, Insta Pump Fury, Victory Pump, and AXT these should be available shortly from Reebok.com and more global stores. Click on for more images of this pack. Reebok: Tread carefully with your street language. —BokOne Read the rest of this entry


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Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we'll provide the jams.
"I try to say goodbye and I choke. I try to walk away and I stumble"—these lyrics, sung in a unique, raspy voice—blasted from radios all across the world at the beginning of the new millennium.
The person behind these words was Macy Gray (her real name: Natalie McIntyre) a young singer from Canton, Ohio who moved to Los Angeles as a teen to study scriptwriting. While there, she wrote lyrics as a way to get to know a guitar player she liked; when the guitarist's singer didn't show up one night to a show, Gray took the mic, and the rest is history.


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The Serendipity Arts Foundation launched the Serendipity Arts Festival 2018 with a well attended evening event and performance of 'The Dark Lord' by Rukmini Vijayakumar and The Raadha Kalpa Dance Company, at the The Royal Opera House Mumbai on 27 September 2018. This was followed by symposium on contemporary art in India 'Common Ground: Location and Memory in Arts Practices' at the Goethe Institut, Mumbai on 28 September.
Ms. Smriti Rajgarhia, Director, Serendipity Arts Festival introduced this year's 14 Festival curators, representing Visual Arts, Photography, Culinary Arts, Craft, Music, Dance, and Theatre, saying "We are really proud to announce the third edition of the Serendipity Arts Festival with these unique lead-up events in Mumbai that demonstrate the diversity of this year's festival. They highlight our strong commitment to collaboration across the creative disciplines, and further our vision of expanding the scope and depth of our festival with each passing year to be more inclusive, educational and accessible, whilst maintaining artistic rigour and quality. The Serendipity Arts Festival 2018 will unite artists, disciplines, and creative processes from across the country and truly celebrate the culture of the subcontinent,"
Founder of the Serendipity Arts Foundation Mr. Sunil Kant Munjal addressed the audience at the end of the performance emphasising the importance of arts and culture in India's society, and the Festival's commitment to accessibility and arts education, as well as the diversity and artistic integrity of this year's projects. Speaking about the event Mr Munjal said, "This was a really fantastic event to kick off this year's festival, we're delighted by the huge support we received from the audience in Mumbai, and were excited to showcase the diversity of projects we'll have in Goa this December."
Over 90 projects will be presented at Serendipity Arts Festival 2018, which will be held in Goa from 15-22 December 2018. Showcasing the visual, culinary and performing arts and accompanied by collateral programming including panel discussions, children's programmes, and workshops for the differently abled. These initiatives are an integral part of the Foundation's key mission of making the arts accessible whilst also energising arts production, awareness and practice across South Asia.
In its previous two editions, the event attracted more than 600,000 visitors creating significant impact and contributing to the cultural regeneration of Panaji. This year's programming continues to honour the culture and the arts of the Festival's host city, with special events to celebrate the 175th anniversary of Panaji redefining heritage sites and architectural icons through creative and community focused projects.
An initiative of the Serendipity Arts Foundation, founded in 2016 by Mr Sunil Kant Munjal, the Festival's third edition is focused on fostering cultural development, supporting emerging artists across South Asia and is unique as the only arts event in the country that unites the creative disciplines.
The first two editions of the event transformed Goa and received an extremely positive reception from the public, redefining perceptions of the arts whilst also energising arts production, awareness and practice across the country.
Showcasing performative, visual, and culinary practices, this year's Festival has been designed to create a balance between artistic rigour and accessibility. Projects will unite art forms from different parts of the country, diluting regional divisions and encouraging cross-cultural exchange.
Highlights of this year's event include, theatre performances designed for children, large scale public installations in the visual arts and photography, a variety outdoor and evening music performances, culinary workshops and tastings, as well as a range of specially commissioned projects across disciplines which will be exclusive to Serendipity Arts Festival 2018.
Image: Still from 'The Dark Lord' by Rukmini Vijayakumar and The Raadha Kalpa Dance Company, Courtesy The Raadha Kalpa Dance Company and The Serendipity Art Festival


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On the A1 highway into Gaborone, the capital city of Botswana, commuters and visitors are wondering who and what are Flovac Vacuum Sewerage Systems and what is "The Green Future of Sewerage"? Web hits from the African continent have reached new heights and vacuum sewers will reach new area's.
Earlier this year Flovac opened it's first office in Africa, teaming up with the highly respected Multi Water associate Multi Waste Group who specialise in water and wastewater solutions for the southern countries in Africa that include South Africa, Namibia and Botswana.
The attraction for John Davies, Managing Director of Multi Waste Ltd for introducing Flovac into Botswana were the green credentials that vacuum sewer systems offer a very dry country. Vacuum's ability to handle black and grey water separation is very important in area's where you want to reduce the amount of water wasted through toilets and still enable the reduced flows to travel back to the pump station or treatment plant.
Not only do vacuum systems facilitate water savings, they also use less energy than other technological solutions. The other real benefits are the improvements to health by installation a tight system, the low impact on communities during construction, the low cost of construction and the ease of maintenance.
Project Manager Johannes Selke, has had long term experience with vacuum sewers and has seen Flovac's systems in the Middle East, Europe and Asia and knows that Flovac's commitment to providing solutions and operational support at a local level sets Flovac apart from any of its competitors and a strong reason why Johannes pushed for a tie up between Multi Waste and Flovac.
Last month Flovac participated for the first time at IFAT Africa in Johannesburg. Flovac has participated at the biannual IFAT event in Munich for many years and saw IFAT Africa as a perfect place to showcase Flovac's Green credentials and launch the tie up with Multi Waste.
Multi Waste's MD Andrew Davies feels strongly that the South African market is the "market of the future" for Flovac's vacuum solutions. All of the nations of Southern Africa have the same problems with water savings and water shortages.
Water restrictions are common and when that occurs water consumption slips well below 100 liters per person per day. The impact that this has on sewage reticulation networks is terrible with odours and blockages. vacuum sewers however can handle the lower water flows due to the energy created by air entering the system along with the wastewater.
If you would like to contact one of our team from Africa please send details to [email protected] or get contact details on our web page. https://flovac.com/contact-us-flovac-vacuum-sewer-systems/


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If you're a fan of fashion-focused activewear, you'll be more than familiar with Sweaty Betty. As a brand that pushes the boundaries when it comes to style and leads the pack in terms of performance, it's one of our Flybery favourites.
So with each new season, we love to not only bring you the new collections, but also to get to know the passion and inspiration behind them too...
Beautiful Barcelona
For Spring 2018, the Sweaty Betty team looked to the bustling cosmopolitan city of Barcelona for design and detail inspiration. From the intricate geometric forms of Gaudi's architecture to the vibrant vintage vibe of the backstreets and markets. Barcelona is a hotbed of creative energy, which is something that comes across so effortlessly within the new Spring 2018 collection.
Using striking lines as well as areas of light and shade, many of the collection's pieces carry with them an atmospheric feel. Perfect for that studio to street look or for times when simple block colours simply won't cut it.
Bold and Bright
Drawing further inspiration from Gaudi's love of life under the sea, the prints that feature in the Spring 2018 collection are beautifully bold and full of life. The collection's go-to legging and sports bra coordinates are eye-catching and fun-loving, giving out all of the good positive vibes that help us to stay motivated.
If you like to switch it up from time to time, the collection's reversible pieces - which include leggings, a bomber jacket and yoga bra - will help you to keep your look fresh, feel your best and make the most of the striking prints on offer.
Bum-sculpting Leggings
It simply wouldn't be a Sweaty Betty collection without signature bum-sculpting leggings. Providing lift, support and a serious dose of style, these fitness-wear must-haves are world renowned. Using smart fabrics and clever design to sculpt your bum to perfection, they are a Sweaty Betty signature style, but they just keep getting better.
Want to pair the perfect workout with your bum-sculpting style? Go behind the scenes with Janine George...
The Whole Package
From its punchy prints to its historic connections, everything about the new Sweaty Betty collection speaks of power. So it was only fitting that it should be modelled for the world to see by a strong, inspiring woman. Featured in the official lookbook is model and Kung-Fu enthusiast, Penny Lane.
Find out more about the face behind the looks here, and get to see even more of its stand-out styles in the official lookbook.
Can't wait to get your hands on the new Sweaty Betty Spring 2018 collection?
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In LosArcanos.com we are creating a new Tarot deck, with exclusive footage created to transmit the feminine consciousness and energy of the New Age, that will soon see on our site as well try that may get printed
THE FOOL: To the Fool, life is an adventure, he dares to explore new lands, to take action, to seek our truth and live life like an adventure.
We need to do new things in life, to fill our life with knowledge.
The Fool challenges to explore new territories and frontiers. Our life is full of situations that replace true adventure. There's always an excuse or justification for our inaction: We are always expecting things or somebody else to entertain us.
According to The Fool, life is a game. The purpose of every game is to have fun. We can learn by playing. We need to do new things in life. We need to broaden our frontiers. If we are pleased with our actual situation, we won't be interested in discover new things. The quality of The Fool needs to be directed, not abolished, as so many times happens in our modern society.
The Fool remind us that we have to encourage our individuality, not risk it. He feels an instinctive aversion for authority and hates to be ordered by anyone.. He needs a broad space for him. Hates routine and continually wishes for new things to happen around him. He could easily attract eccentric people, unpredictable and uncommitted. His best characteristics are dynamism and his ability to act.
The Fool learns from his mistakes. That's his secret.
His favorite tool is laughter. The Fool trusts totally in what the universe offers. He's not afraid. he doesn't regret what could or could not be. He already crossed that river. He creates his future in the present moment, not in the past or the future. Past and future are an unnecessary burden. The Fool travels with light baggage because he carries all he needs. The Fool lives a simple life.
Simplicity is the key of life!
Break down routine. Express yourself.
Talk to new people.
Show yourself able to explore new ways of thinking.
Have a simple life.
Show a live interest for everything.
Overcome your fears, accept them. Fear is the result of a separation between man's consciousness and God's consciousness.
Change your hairstyle or make up.
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Meet SCBWI member and illustrator Lauren Gallegos in this quarter's "Illustrator's Gallery." Read on to hear Lauren's story and see some of her amazing illustrations!
In one of my early illustration classes in college, a professor gave us a quiz to see if we were more cut out for being an in-house illustrator or a freelance illustrator. The test placed me VERY much in the camp of in-house illustrator based on my personality and working style. I was pretty discouraged by this. I was still new to the illustration world (I started out in Graphic Design), but was already on my way down the path of wanting to become a children's book illustrator. In my mind, that could only mean that I had to do freelance. So what did I do? I set out to prove that quiz wrong! No one was going to put me in a box and tell me what I was destined to be!
So when I finished school, I set up a website and started scrolling through Craigslist, taking almost anything I could find. I know. Craigslist. It's so sad. But that's the only thing I could think to do at the time and I just wanted to work!
Well, Craigslist proved to be a starting point at least. I did small freelance jobs here and there and took as many opportunities that came my way. I was freelancing! Of course they were beginner jobs and it absolutely was not enough to live on. So I also got a part-time job as an after-school art teacher. All the while I was working on my craft and trying to learn how to draw better through paid work as well as personal projects.
Fast forward about seven years. My freelance work has brought me many opportunities to work on books with self-publishing authors as well as enough pay to quit my teaching job and still live modestly. Every book I have worked on has been a learning experience and I wouldn't trade it for anything. I can see how my work as progressed and changed over those seven years and I can't wait to see how it changes in the next seven. And just recently I signed with an agent, so I am excited to take the next step in my career!
Lauren Gallegos earned her BFA in Illustration from Cal State Fullerton in 2009 and has been illustrating ever since. She is always looking for opportunities to illustrate great stories with the desire to see how her work will impact young minds. She is a proud member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. She lives in Southern California with her husband. You can find here at, www.Laurengallegos.com, artbylauren.blogspot.com, @laurengallegos, and on Facebook.
Illustrations provided by Lauren Gallegos.


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The Fort Bend Chargers beat the Stephenville Faith Knights 74-56 on Dec. 1 at College Station to win the Texas Association of Independent Athletic Organizations division 2 state championship.
The Chargers are based in Sugar Land and provide home-schooled students a place to play tackle football.
In the championship game, Fort Bend and Stephenville were tied 22-22 at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter, the Chargers shut out the Knights while scoring 16 points to take a 38-22 halftime lead. In the third quarter, Stephenville scored 14 points, but the Chargers added 20 to increase their lead to 58-36. The Chargers held on in the fourth quarter, and the final score was 74-56, earning the Chargers their first state championship.
"Our guys had tremendous cohesiveness and relationships this year. They really bonded during the season and developed deep friendships. They just had a burning desire to play for each other," Chargers head coach Larry Pavlik said.
Quarterback Dylan Pendergast completed 39 of 48 passes for 517 yards and eight touchdowns, and he rushed six times for 36 yards.
"Dylan is a super great guy and a phenomenal leader. He has been playing with us since seventh grade. When we go hurry-up, he calls all of the plays," Pavlik said.
Ethan Sicking caught 12 passes for 171 yards.
"Ethan is a sophomore and came back to us this year after taking a year off to play soccer. He broke a finger midway through the season and he caught 12 passes in the championship game with one of his hands heavily bandaged. I don't know how he did it," Pavlik said.
Noah Tingle caught nine passes for 175 yards, Noah Sprinkle caught eight passes for 48 yards, Kade Guerra had six receptions for 45 yards and Jonathan Kirby had six catches for 65 yards.
On defense, Kade Guerra and Dylan Pendergast had six tackles each.
The Chargers have been in existence since 2011. They play under the auspices of the Texas Association of Independent Athletic Organizations, which offers structured play in six man football, girls and boys basketball, baseball, softball, track and field and volleyball for private schools, charter schools, home school organizations and public schools. They currently have organizations in Houston, Dallas Metroplex, Austin, San Antonio, El Paso, and Waco.
Six-man football is similar to 11-man football with the following changes:
• The field is 80-yards by 40-yards,
• A first down is 15 yards,
• A kickoff must travel 15 yards before it can be covered,
• The scoring is six points for a touchdown, two points for an extra point kick and one point for a run, and a field goal is four points.
• The player receiving the center snap must hand the ball off or throw the ball – he can not run beyond the line of scrimmage. Many teams, including the Chargers, have a back receive the center snap and toss the ball to the quarterback who can then run, pass or hand-off the ball.
The Chargers ended their season with an 11-1 record.


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