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Jose Rubio had the closest thing he's had to a summer vacation in 18 years this month. |
Rubio, the third-year Barstow football coach, was able to take his wife Jennifer and their five children: Juan Steven, Wendy, Isabelle, Jose Jr. and Emily to Jennifer's family reunion in Utah during the first two weeks of August � a time when most football coaches are either already on the field or preparing for traini... |
coordinator Jay Thompson. Rubio said he will be able to better monitor the entire game rather than concentrating on each offensive drive and play. |
With Ray Silva returning as the Aztecs' defensive coordinator, having offensive and defensive coordinators has freed Rubio from some of his day-to-day responsibilities and will also facilitate a shift away from the running game that he's expecting from the Aztecs' offense this season. |
"The other coaches were asking for more responsibility, and I could use some time to spend with my wife and kids," Rubio said. "It's more about being able to switch things up on offense. I've always called the plays on offense, and we tried to add more passing last year, but I can't help it. If I'm in there I always te... |
The Aztecs have been working on improving their passing game throughout Rubio's tenure. They went from a six to one rush to pass ratio in 2008 to a four to one in 2009. Rubio and Thompson both believe they have the players that can bring that number closer to two to one this season. |
Barstow returns senior quarterback Steven Deverell who threw for 600 yards last season, averaged slightly less than 20 yards a pass and had a completion rate of about 46 percent. |
"Steven has really developed into a leader this season," Silva said. "He has a lot better knowledge of the game, he works hard and his teammates respect him. The team follows his lead. I think that's even more important than how his accuracy and power have improved." |
Deverell's most likely targets on the field will be wide receiver Dex Yarber and tight end Chris Smalls, Rubio said. |
"Chris is looking like he could be a Shannon Sharpe type tight end," Rubio said. "He has great hands. Even during our passing league he was very effective at breaking off from the linebackers and making the catch. He also has the size and speed to get out and make the blocks if we run the ball." |
Smalls' ability to make the catches in short-yardage situations, and Yarber's speed will prove useful in the new offense that Thompson is installing. He plans to run a variation of the West Coast offense utilizing the I and spread formations. |
"We'll be taking advantage of a lot of screens and short routes that we can get out of the I," Thompson said. "The I will allow us to pass or rush out of the same formation. It forces the defense to stay honest. But, if we get out there and a team is giving us the chance to run the ball we can revert right back to the ... |
Rubio said Thompson's new role as the offensive coordinator and his new design for the Aztecs will prove to be a shock to their opponents this season. |
"I think what's going to surprise everyone is when we really (pass the ball)", Rubio said. "Every year we seem to say that we're going to pass, and we're really going to this year. A lot of the Desert Sky League is returning to the ground game because they lost their quarterbacks, and we are lucky enough to have Devere... |
David Heldreth is the sports editor of the Desert Dispatch. He can be reached via e-mail at dheldreth@desertdispatch.com or at (760) 256-4124. |
The Post reports, “Former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty Friday to lying to the FBI. … Flynn’s admission … is an ominous sign for the White House, as court documents indicate Flynn is cooperating in the ongoing probe of possible coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin to influenc... |
We don’t know for certain what cooperation Flynn is providing on what topic, but surely it would be hugely helpful to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. A series of news reports recently described potential liability stemming from Flynn’s failure to register as a foreign agent, his alleged involvement in a scheme t... |
National security gurus with whom I spoke suggest Flynn could be of help in several areas. He might provide details of Russian influence actors — how they operated and how they contacted and connected with him. (We should remember this is still a counterintelligence investigation.) Flynn’s help could be related to form... |
Trump’s defenders will argue that this still does not touch on the underlying issue of collusion with Russia. That’s true but misses the point. If there was collusion, Flynn almost certainly would have known about it. He was both Trump’s closet foreign policy adviser and a pro-Russia operator who traveled to Russia to ... |
A personal genetic analysis service, 23andMe, can give you a lot of information about your ancestry. |
Now, the company has been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market Genetic Health Risk (GHR) tests for 10 diseases or conditions. It marks the first time the agency has allowed these tests to measure someone's genetic predisposition to certain diseases and conditions. |
However, health experts are hopeful that if patients understand certain genetic risks they may have, it will provide incentives to make healthier lifestyle choices. |
The FDA says the tests may provide genetic risk information, but they can't determine someone's overall risk of developing a disease or condition. The tests only measure genetic variants, not other factors that can contribute to illness. |
The FDA has made something of an about face on the company. In 2013, the agency ordered 23andMe to shut down on the grounds that its DNA testing kit was an unapproved medical device. It acted in response to the company's early advertising claims. |
After many in the medical community said the tests could be beneficial, 23andMe changed its business model and advertising claims to conform with government guidelines, resulting in this week's approval. |
The company's GHR tests work by isolating DNA from a saliva sample. The sample undergoes tests for more than 500,000 genetic variants. Whether or not these variants are present is key to whether or not the individual has an increased risk for developing any one of the diseases or conditions. |
The performance level dipped a little bit against Shrewsbury, but unfortunately sometimes that happens in football. |
We started fine before the visitors grew into the game. |
They worked very hard and were well drilled. |
With the Shrews sitting second bottom in League One, I thought they wouldn’t be very good – especially given what happened with a lot of their players leaving over the summer. |
But they looked a decent outfit and made it difficult for Pompey. |
A draw was a fair result and we remain unbeaten without firing on all cylinders. |
If you’re not playing at your best but not losing then that’s not a bad thing. |
The lads will be disappointed and know they can play better. |
That could drive them on into what is going to be a big, tough game at Peterborough. |
It’s not going to be season-defining, but it will give us an idea of where we really are. |
In my opinion, Posh were one of the best sides we played last season on the road – I was impressed by them and they’ve had a good start to the season. |
They came back from going behind at Southend and don’t give up. |
Peterborough are obviously a good side but so are we when at our best. |
It’ll give us all an indication of where Pompey are at at the moment. |
We’ve played the teams at the bottom in our past two league games – now we’ll play the team at the top. |
The Blues didn’t do too well against the top-six teams last season, although did take four points off Wigan. |
I can’t say it’s a six-pointer already, but it is quite important we go there and don’t get beat. |
Then, for confidence, that could be a big boost for us going forward. |
I remember the top-of-the-table matches during my career when we missed out on promotion. |
One was against Manchester City and we got beat at Fratton Park. |
The games always have an extra edge to them. |
People say it’s just another match but as a player I never felt that. |
This game has probably been looked at for a while, if truth be told, and you’ve got to go out and perform against supposedly the best side in the division. |
At the end of a class, a child will come up to me, give me a hug and say, “Thank you, teacher." That, for me, is evidence enough that I am making a difference to a child in particular, and to society at large. |
Jelly Beans, my centre for physical development for children between 18 months and six years, is only a few weeks old. I have big plans for it—more centres definitely, maybe more cities—but I am not even calculating the financial ramifications of that. What I do now is a passion, not a money-making venture. |
Strange, because I have a finance background: After a B.Com from the University of Mumbai, I got a postgraduate degree in equity research and analysis from the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India, Hyderabad. Since equity research was unheard of in Bangalore, I started a firm with two partners, buying and... |
Till then, I had given little thought to childcare or development. As I became more and more involved with Sahil—ours was a nuclear set-up, with no in-laws around—I began to notice differences in his attitudes and behaviour in comparison with my cousin’s kids, who were growing up in the US, and even children from other... |
Their world is vastly different from the one we grew up in; with entertainment a flick of the remote away, they have far fewer incentives to go out and play. Games such as langdi or pittu, which we played as kids, are becoming extinct. The lack of physical exercise was something that hit me, really, because I had alway... |
With this in mind, I began researching preschool child development. While on a holiday in the US in May 2005, I visited a children’s gymnasium. In Japan and China last year, I realized how far they had moved ahead in scientifically assessing and providing for a child’s optimal growth. |
During my research, I learnt of a course in innovative teaching of movement skills in preschool children conducted by Carol Leitschuh of the School of Kinesiology, Centre of Early Childhood Education and Development at the University of Minnesota. I signed up for the course and shared my ideas on foundation physical sk... |
While I was doing the course, I came to know of BazGym, a Singapore-based gymnastics school specializing in children aged three and above. Both these interactions proved extremely useful—after all, I had no one to consult on the subject in India—and validated my idea that about an hour of structured physical activity, ... |
The idea is to allow children to explore different physical activities—locomotor, stability and object control—appropriate to their age in a stress-free, non-competitive environment. At the earliest stage, this involves body-part identification, jumping, hopping, climbing and twisting, swinging, swaying, etc. Once they... |
Subsequently, the focus shifts to cooperative play, patience, sharing and problem-solving through age-appropriate gymnastics and group games, thereby laying the foundations for a sport—basketball, football, golf, hockey or volleyball—at a later stage. |
As for my son, at six he is rather too old to enroll for the classes. But with taekwondo, swimming and skating built into his life and free access to Jelly Beans, I can see he is a happier child, a listening child. To be able to give other children what I saw missing early in his life—that’s the passion that drives me ... |
Before:Physical activity that’s incidental or accidental. |
After:Movements inculcated early, building a foundation for physical activity. |
As told to Sumana Mukherjee. Write to lounge@livemint.com. |
Homi Adajania’s column ‘Lost Dog Tales’ will return next week. |
She asked for a bank advance to start her business. |
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Charter schools celebrate National Charter Week next week. |
May 1, 2014 Charter schools. |
Next week, May 4-10, is the 15th Annual National Charter Schools Week and the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools has a long slate of events to celebrate the rapidly growing field of charter schools. |
On Monday, the National Alliance will release an estimate of the number of students and families waiting to attend charter schools across the country. |
On Tuesday, the alliance will honor federal, state, and local elected officials will be honored at the 2014 Champions of Charters reception in Washington D.C. |
During week, the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to consider H.R. 10, a bill that focuses on charter schools and school choice. |
Charter schools and community organizations across the country are expected to host events highlight the charter schools in their communities, according to a release from the alliance. |
In Palm Beach County there are nearly 50 charter schools so far with dozens more applying or already having received permission to open as early as next year. |
For more information about National Charter Schools Week, visit publiccharters.org/charterschoolsweek. |
I have to show my appreciation to you just for bailing me out of this situation. As a result of searching through the search engines and finding thoughts which were not productive, I believed my entire life was done. Being alive devoid of the approaches to the issues you have fixed through your main review is a crucial... |
The Parliament of Ghana has reacted to the incidence of illegal rosewood felling in the country, and discussed steps to look into the matter, the Daily Graphic has reported. |
According to the report in the Wednesday February 13, 2019 issue, the Parliamentary sub-Committee on Lands and Forestry has condemned the illegal act of felling rosewood particularly in the Builsa South District in the Upper East Region and in other parts of the country in general. Illegal rosewood felling in Ghana’s r... |
The situation appears to be getting out of control. Last week, two men died from gunshot wounds following conflict between local people and illegal loggers of rosewood in the Wa East District of the Upper West Region. |
An investigative report on rosewood felling in the Upper West Region by ghanabusinessnews.com in January titled ‘China’s lust for rosewood fuels logging in Ghana’s poorest region’ went viral and subsequently generated interest in the matter, including in Parliament. The Parliamentary Committee also made a visit to the ... |
Jane The Virgin Actress Gina Rodriguez Impressed Her 2015 Teen Choice Awards Co-host Ludacris By Showing Off Her Own Rap Skills During The Prizegiving On Sunday (16aug15). |
The Golden Globe-winning actress served as a presenter with the rapper and actor Josh Peck, and as the trio opened the show, they delegated which categories they would help introduce throughout the night. |
Ludacris stated he should clearly take over the music category, but Rodriguez argued she too had musical chops of her own. |
The rapper said, "I'm calling you out. Let me see what you got", to which Rodriguez replied, "This one's for you, Luda", before launching into a fast-paced rap. |
In the rhyme, she told her co-host, "All I do is win, no matter what, Luda!" |
Peck also showed off his own musical skills by singing a parody of One Direction's What Makes You Beautiful. |
Rodriguez first rose to fame by playing aspiring rapper Majo Tonorio in acclaimed hip-hop music drama Filly Brown, a film which caught the eye of several music label executives who offered her record deals, but she turned down the offers in order to focus on her acting career. |
New criminal syndicates are continually forming in Mexico, as the bigger cartels are decapitated and middle ranking leaders step up to form their own organizations. In Colombia, the reverse seems to be the case, as the number of major league criminal gangs shrinks. However the two names that are left standing in Colomb... |
These two structures, called BACRIMs (criminal bands, or ‘bandas criminales’) by the government, are the ‘Rastrojos’ and the ‘Urabeños.’ While there are other major players on the drug-trafficking criminal scene, they are all in one way or another linked to the Rastrojos or their bitter enemies the Urabeños. |
The Rastrojos have their roots in the Norte del Valle cartel, born in the province of the same name on Colombia’s Pacific coast. They are now the biggest players on Colombia’s criminal scene, with a presence in at least 12 of the country’s 32 provinces or departments. Led by two brothers, Javier and Luis Enrique Calle ... |
The Calle Serna brothers work with some of the heaviest hitters in the Colombian cocaine industry. The first is Daniel “El Loco” Barrera, one of the US’s most wanted traffickers. Barrera is believed to base himself out of Venezuela, occasionally slipping into Colombia to check his interests in the eastern plains and th... |
While the Rastrojos had been unable to negotiate a nationwide alliance with Colombia’s Marxist guerrillas, who control access to much of the coca crops, the raw material of the cocaine, they have managed to secure local agreements. In what was the prototype BACRIM-rebel agreement, in 2007, the Rastrojos made an agreeme... |
Now the Rastrojos and the ELN have agreements, in the interests of the drug trade, in the departments of Antioquia, Cauca, Valle del Cauca, Chocó, Norte de Santander, and Nariño. The Rastrojos have also managed to secure local agreements with the FARC in Antioquia, Cauca, Valle del Cauca, Putumayo, Nariño, and Norte De... |
Pitted against the Calle Serna brothers and their Rastrojos are the Usuga brothers, Juan de Dios and Dario Antonio, of the Urabeños. This group has its roots in the now demobilized paramilitary army of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia – AUC). They are based in the region of Ur... |
The Urabeños also have some powerful friends, not least among them the second faction of the Oficina de Envigado, that headed by Maximiliano Bonilla Orozco, alias ‘Valenciano.’ Bonilla has presence not only in the city of Medellin, but along the Caribbean coast, where he helps the Urabeños move cocaine from the ports o... |
The Rastrojos and Urabeños have different routes and structures. The Rastrojos are a loose affiliation of drug traffickers, organized crime syndicates, and common criminals. They act as a franchise, and the Calle Serna brothers do not pretend to have control over all those that call themselves Rastrojos. Indeed many of... |
Both groups have been expanding their operations across the country, gobbling up smaller criminal syndicates as they go. In 2008 there was a relatively clear divide between the two, with the Rastrojos dominant along the Pacific coast, and the Urabeños on the Caribbean coast. Since then the lines have been blurred, with... |
In Colombia, the fully integrated and hierarchical drug cartel died with Pablo Escobar of the Medellin cartel and the dismantling of the rival Cali cartel. The Norte del Valle cartel was more of a federation, which worked alongside the other powerful drug-trafficking federation of the paramilitary AUC. Today there are ... |
Jeremy McDermott is a director at Insight – Organized Crime in the Americas, which provides research, analysis, and investigation of the criminal world throughout the region. |
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