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The Warriors put up 41 points in the first half and rolled past Calhoun County rival Brussels 75-34 to run their winning streak to 12 straight games. Calhoun, coming off a 78-60 win over Southwestern in the championship game of the Jersey Holiday Tournament, improves to 16-2.
Grace Baalman scored 19 points to lead four Warriors in double figures. Kassidy Klocke scored 13 points and Madison Lehr and Emma Baalman finished with 12 points apiece for Calhoun. The Warriors led 20-4 after one quarter and 41-15 at the half.
Madison Wilman scored eight points and Marisa Kuhn chipped in six for the Raiders.
A local Indian tribe is nearing a deal to buy a part of Clover Valley in Rocklin.
The United Auburn Indian Community has restarted negotiations to buy and conserve at least part of the rural Rocklin property planned for home development.
It is strewn with Native American artifacts up to seven thousand years old. The tribe owns the popular Thunder Valley Casino and is talking of preserving areas of the land most sacred to its people.
The tribe has talked about buying the property before. But discussions were combative over pricing. Now the talks are more serious.
If they succeed, some of the land would be bought for preservation and for Indian ceremonial, cultural and housing uses.
Q. I’m under CSRS. If I started my government service in the legislative branch (15 years and three months), and then went to the executive branch for the next 16 years, can I carry my 2.5 percent annual into the 16 years of the executive branch service, or do I start at 1.5 percent the day I began with the executive branch?
A. Your years of service in the legislative branch would be computed using the higher percentage.
On July 24, 2010, thousands of people around the world uploaded videos of their lives to YouTube to take part in "Life in a Day," a historic cinematic experiment to create a documentary film about a single day on Earth. Now, it's time to watch their story unfold on the big screen. Directed by Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald, "Life in a Day" wowed audiences at the Sundance, Berlin and SXSW film festivals and during its YouTube world premiere in January. This summer, you'll be able to watch the movie in a theater near you.
When should my child start music lessons?
If you’ve ever thought about putting your child in music lessons, give yourself a pat on the back. Raymond Goodrich II, a lifelong musician and store owner, says to do otherwise borders on parental neglect.
The National Association of Music Merchants, also known as NAMM, cites numerous studies that find children trained in music do better in motor skills, school grades, speech, hearing and more.
“As a parent, I think it’s our responsibility to expose them to the opportunity to play music,” said Goodrich, the second-generation president of Lafayette Music Company. “There’s one study that got down to DNA and showed there are switches that turn our stress on and off.
“They have figured out if you participate in music, three to four years consistently, it’s going to take three or four of those switches and permanently turn them to the off position.
Local teachers say there is no magic age. Many children start in the fifth grade with school bands. Others begin private lessons as young as the first grade or kindergarten.
But more important than age, the child must have a keen interest in music and be willing to practice for the long haul.
Brazos Huval has taught more than 1,000 children in 10 years at his Breaux Bridge school. Students learn, by ear, to play the accordion, fiddle, guitar, drums, saxophone and more.
But Huval said the students and parents must be interested and committed.
“Kids can develop an interest in the music,” said Huval, who plays bass with the Grammy-nominated Cajun band, Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys. “Some parents come, drop off their kids and say, ‘We want to try it for a month.’ That aint’ gonna happen.
Charlie Gaithe, a touring guitarist and songwriter for 27 years and teacher for 15 years, believes 6 or 7 is a good age for children to start. Gaithe begins with a test lesson to assess a child’s posture, movements and attention span.
“We’ll sit down and see if they’re physically capable of holding a guitar and playing some parts on the instrument,” said Gaithe. “Generally, my lessons are 30 minutes.
Resources for music lessons are numerous, including countless choices on the Internet. A search for “music lessons” on YouTube brings 154 million results.
But local teachers urge parents to be cautious with online resources. Many teach bad habits that can set students back.
“A lot of times, a kid will say, ‘I learned a song today. I picked up the chords online,” said Huval. “It’s totally wrong. We have to go back to the drawing board and start out the song the right way.
Gaithe and Goodrich have also corrected numerous errors learned online. Gaithe says nothing beats the instant feedback and direction of a live instructor.
But for parents who still want an online option, Goodrich gives high notes to Fender Play, sponsored by the world’s leading guitar manufacturer. Students learn from a variety of masters using video and tracking technology that helps students to learn quickly.
“They’ll get you playing a song within the first 30 minutes,” said Goodrich. “The teachers are pretty amazing.
Once a child starts music lessons, teachers urge parents to keep going. Peaks and valleys are part of the learning process and times for parents to be encouraging.
“The ones that do well, not only are they into the music,” said Huval. “But they’re taking their instrument home and practicing.
Gaithe hopes that positive reinforcement goes beyond music.
“I try to make them be aware of their language and thoughts. You’d be surprised how much that changes them. Sometimes they’re not even aware that’s coming up in their vocabulary.
“They don’t, can’t, won’t, shouldn’t and wouldn’t. ‘That won’t happen’ or ‘That’s too hard.’ All of those carry a lot of weight.
Why study Biomedical Engineering BS/MS at UB?
Students enrolled in this combined degree will be well-prepared for the Biomedical Engineering graduate coursework given the coursework they’ve completed through the BS degree plan.
Graduates will use their scientific, technical, and communication skills to contribute to the achievement of the goals and objectives of employers of biomedical engineers.
Graduates will continue their professional development in biomedical engineering or medicine, including professional licensure, continuing education, and/or graduate study.
Graduates will have advanced knowledge of modern theories, engineering systems, and mathematical and engineering tools enabling them to identify and address unmet clinical, diagnostic, and/or healthcare needs.
The Department of Biomedical Engineering is located in Bonner Hall on the North Campus, although faculty in the Department are located on each of the three UB campuses. There are two primary laboratory spaces used in undergraduate education: our modern, well-equipped wet lab and dry lab that encompass over 2000 sq ft. These spaces are also available to students outside of class time for independent project work. Additionally, students have access to shared project spaces within the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Students who wish to engage in research will also find cutting-edge research labs.
With fourteen full-time faculty members and numerous other affiliated faculty members, undergraduate BME students will interact with our faculty in the classroom and through research activities. Our faculty are engaged in cutting-edge research in the areas of nanomedicine, tissue engineering, biomedical imaging and biomedical devices, among others; this research activity is translated to the classroom so that undergraduate students understand the changes occurring in the field. Additionally, students will have the opportunity to engage with our faculty in research and design projects.
The Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Albert H. Titus, may be contacted at ahtitus@buffalo.edu to answer questions about the program.
Please visit the Biomedical Engineering department website for additional information about our faculty.
Companies designing and testing new devices and systems.
Universities and hospitals as researchers and support personnel.
Government regulatory agencies, helping to develop and standards for product testing and safety.
Because of their training in both the engineering and medical disciplines, biomedical engineers are often in the role of interfacing between these two fields.
Based on the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median annual salary for biomedical engineers is $88,040 with a 10%-90% range of $52,070 to $142,610. Nationally about a third of biomedical engineering students go on to graduate school in engineering or related disciplines, about a third go on to medical school, and about a third go directly to industry.
The Biomedical Engineering Department also offers one-on-one advisement by appointment. Contact the Academic Coordinator for details.
There are many scholarships, fellowships and other funding opportunities available for students accepted into the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. These include recruitment scholarships and annual scholarships/awards for current students. There are both merit and need-based scholarships. All scholarships are currently offered through UB's scholarship portal.
It's Diaper Need Awareness Week and donations are needed here in the Treasure Valley.
The National Diaper Bank Network estimates 53% of children in Idaho ages 3 and under are living in poverty.
The Idaho Diaper Bank held a 'stuff the bus' diaper drive to collect those donations today.
Diapers are not covered by any government assistance programs, like food stamps or WIC.
If you couldn't get out to stuff the bus today, you can drop diapers off in the blue donation bins outside the Idaho Diaper Bank.
We live in a globalized world which moves on towards multi-polarity in an era characterized by a threat to the survival of the human species. Neither the US government nor NATO would be able to reverse that trend by a new distribution of the world through the use of arms. However, but there is a serious risk that, in attempting to do that, the world becomes an ungovernable place.
The huge nuclear and conventional arsenals accumulated, the imposed annual military expenditures amounting to 1 trillion 750 billion dollars and the 2 per cent increase of the military budget’s share of the GDP required from all NATO member States will be of no use to cope with or eradicate poverty, hunger, epidemics, migration waves or avert the water, energy, food, environmental and global economy crisis.
As has already been demonstrated, wherever the so called “Unconventional Warfare” is applied, as described in the Training Circular 18-01 of the Special Operations Forces, and the novelties of the United States Defense Strategy Quadrennial Review, both of them issued in 2010, chaos will be imposed through the destabilization or destruction of States; the proliferation of violent and extremist groups; the tearing-up of nations, cultures and religions, which will engender serious threats to regional and international peace and security.
It is necessary to reject the militarization of cyberspace, the illegal and covert intervention of the information systems of some countries with the purpose of using them to perpetrate aggressive actions against third countries and stir up conflicts; as well as the global espionage on governments and entire societies.
The extraterritorial implementation of the US laws to the detriment of other sovereign nations is ever more aggressive; there is a proliferation of unilateral sanctions, particularly in the area of finances, as a foreign policy instrument. The use of the US courts of justice to apply multi-million fines, even on its allies, based on court rulings that violate International Law, has become an instrument of punishment, threats and to spuriously securing financial resources.
If governments decline the defense of their sovereignty and the implementation of their own laws aimed at protecting the international financial system standards, the legitimate interests of their nations, companies and citizens, they would be creating the necessary conditions for the dissemination of these practices that jeopardize the independence of all States and the rule of International Law.
Media emporiums are ever more linked to the hegemonic goals pursued by western powers. They continue to launch their misinformation campaigns. They manipulate facts in a shameless and cynical way and create a public opinion matrix that favors aggressions.
A new international order is required, where there is no room for the philosophy of war and the plundering of natural resources.
The foreign intervention in Syria should come to an end. It is inconceivable that western powers encourage, finance and arm terrorist groups to pit them against one State while attempting to combat their crimes in another State, as it is currently the case in Iraq.
The US government is infringing upon International Law when it launches, in contempt for the United Nations Organization, unilateral bombings with complete disregard for national borders or sovereign States, even if it dissembles them under doubtful coalitions.
The attempt to deploy NATO up to the Russian borders will have serious consequences for international peace and security and for the stability of Europe. The sanctions imposed against Russia are both immoral and unjust. The US strategic deployment in Asia and the Pacific will jeopardize the sovereignty of all nations in that region.
Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people, most recently in the Gaza Strip, should not go unpunished under the Security Council veto. Palestine should already be a member State of the United Nations, which is to be established within the borders agreed in 1967 and with East Jerusalem as its capital.
The General Assembly is to exercise the prerogatives entrusted to it by the Charter given the currently dangerous and unstable international situation, which is full of threats and challenges. The Security Council should be rebuilt upon democracy, transparency, a fair representation of the countries of the South that are discriminated-against among Permanent and Non-Permanent Members, credibility, strict observance of the United Nations Charter, without double standards, obscure procedures or the anachronic veto. The United Nations Organization requires a profound reform and the defense of its principles. The Secretary-General should be an advocator and guarantor of international peace and security.
The 1.2 billion persons who live under extreme poverty, the 842 millions who suffer from chronic hunger; the 774 million illiterate adults and the 57 million out-of-school boys and girls are a confirmation that the Millennium Development Goals, which are questionable from a methodological point of view, were a mirage.
There has been and there still is a lack of political will among the governments of industrialized States, where a blind and ineffective selfishness prevails. Voracious transnational emporiums increasingly concentrate the ownership over huge resources. The unequal distribution of wealth is ever more brutal. A new international economic order is inevitably an imperative.
Under these circumstances, the coordination of the Post 2015 Development Agenda could hardly be a hope. Nevertheless, the attempt to achieve it should become our most urgent task. This should be the outcome of an intergovernmental and inclusive negotiation. The resulting document should not be the interpretation of the consensus by some, but rather the consensus itself.
It is urgent to consider Sub-Saharan Africa a priority. It is necessary to jointly and resolutely confront, through a sufficient and genuine cooperation, the Ebola epidemic that is affecting some countries of the continent.
Cuba decided to maintain its medical cooperation in all the 32 African countries where more than 4 000 Cuban specialists are working, and expand it, under the leadership of the WHO, to the other most affected countries, as has already been announced. Our medical and paramedical staff will do it on a voluntary basis.
We call upon the international community, particularly the industrialized countries with abundant resources, to vigorously respond to the appeal launched by the United Nations and the WHO, so that it could be possible to immediately count on the financial, health and scientific resources required to eradicate that scourge and prevent it from taking a higher toll on human lives.
Likewise, all the necessary resources should be contributed in support of the Agenda 2063 of the African Union, which has established the roadmap for the development of that region.
In these five decades, 325 000 Cuban health workers have assisted 158 nations of the South, including 39 African countries, where 76 000 cooperation workers have served. A total of 38 000 medical doctors have been trained, free of charge, in 121 countries -3 392 of them from 45 African nations. If Cuba, a small and blockaded country, has been able to do it, how much else could be done in favor of Africa with the cooperation from all of us, particularly from the wealthiest States?
At the Second Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States held in Havana, it was agreed that, in order to achieve the goal of having more just and inclusive societies, it was indispensable to have a better distribution of wealth and revenues, eradicate illiteracy, provide quality education for all, establish a true food security and universal coverage health systems, among other human rights.
The solemn Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, which was signed by the Heads of State and Government of the region, consecrates the respect for the principles and rules of International Law; the promotion of a culture of peace, nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament; as well as the inalienable right of every State to choose its political, economic and social system.
We likewise took on the commitment of turning Latin America and the Caribbean into a region free from colonialism and supported the Puerto Rican people undeniable right to free-determination and independence.
The Havana’s Summit recognized that the current economic, financial and environmental crisis has harshly hit the Small Island Developing States, among them the Caribbean nations. Their efforts to enhance the living standards of their peoples should not be punished by classifying these States as middle income countries, based on the schematic estimation of per capita incomes, thus overlooking their peculiarities and vulnerabilities.
In that endeavor, the celebration of the BRICS-UNASUR conference, the meeting between Chinese leaders and representatives of Latin American and Caribbean countries and the foundation of the CELAC-China Forum in Brasilia on July last, as was agreed in Havana, have been major landmarks.
We welcome the Fortaleza Declaration adopted also at that moment in Brazil at the Sixth Summit of BRICS, whose economies account for 25 per cent of the world’s GDP and almost 40 per cent of the population of the planet, as well as the foundation of a New Development Bank and a Common Fund of Foreign Currency Reserves, which are crucial for the countries of the South and the construction of a new international financial architecture.
We would like to express our all-out solidarity with the Bolivarian and ‘Chavista’ Revolution which keeps on struggling and defending itself from destabilizing actions and foreign interference under the leadership of President Nicolás Maduro.
We support the dignifying battle that is being waged by Argentina against speculation funds and oppose the interfering US courts rulings that violate International Law.
We likewise reiterate our firm support to Argentina’s legitimate rights over the Malvinas Islands.
We reiterate our unswerving support to the struggle that is being waged by Ecuador against the despoliation and ecological damages caused by transnational companies.
On the eve of observing the International Decade of Afro descendants (2015-2024), we would like to remind you that this year marks the 210th anniversary of the independence of Haiti, whose Revolution for independence and against slavery was the forerunner of all liberation movements in Latin America and the Caribbean. Haiti deserves a special contribution for its reconstruction and development, under the sovereign leadership of its government, for which we call upon the entire international community. We support the Caribbean’s claim for reparations from the colonial powers for the horrors of slavery.
The State Department has again included Cuba in its unilateral and arbitrary list of States that sponsor international terrorism. Its true purpose is to increase the persecution of our international financial transactions in the whole world and justify the blockade policy.
Under the present administration, there has been an unprecedented tightening of the extraterritorial character of the blockade, with a remarkable and unheard-of emphasis on financial transactions through the imposition of multi-million fines on banking institutions of third countries. So is the case for the scandalous and unjust mega-fine imposed on the French bank BNP Paribas.
Neither does it give up promoting destabilization in Cuba. Every year it allocates millions to this purpose and increasingly resorts to covert methods, including the use of the information and communication technologies.
The USAID-sponsored Zunzuneo project, which not only violates Cuban laws but also the US laws, is the latest evidence of that.
The most recent disclosures about the use of young people from our continent in subversive actions in Cuba -a project that is funded and executed by the USAID-, confirm the countless denunciations made by the Cuban government against the continuity of illegal plans to subvert Cuba’s internal order, in violation of the sovereignty of Cuba, of third countries and of International Law.
We can not but recall that this month marks the sixteenth year of the unjust imprisonment of three Cubans from the group of Five –Gerardo, Ramón, Antonio-, who confronted with utmost altruism the terrorist plans that are organized within the US territory against our country. I reiterate, on behalf of the people and the government of Cuba, that we will not cease in our efforts to call for their return to their homeland.
Cuba, for its part, keeps calm and ready to establish a mutually respectful and responsible dialogue with the US Government based on reciprocity.
Likewise, Cuba continues to make progress in the updating of its social and economic model in the midst of an adverse international situation, characterized by the global economic crisis and the tightening of the blockade.
The updating of Cuba’s economic model is aimed at ensuring the wellbeing, equity and social justice for all Cubans. The changes that we are introducing are aimed at preserving the achievements attained by the Revolution, the ones so many generations have fought for.
They are intended to build an ever more just, prosperous and sustainable Cuban socialism.
Bruno Rodriguez at UN: Any Strategy Intended to Destroy the Revolution Will Fail.
Anthony Scaramucci slammed the White House’s decision to choke press freedoms and bar CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins from a Rose Garden press conference last week, calling it unhelpful to President Donald Trump and just plain wrong.
It was yet another show of solidarity with Collins, who’s received support from both sides of the aisle, including from Fox News following her banishment Wednesday.

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