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Here are vote totals for Delaware County voting in selected key races, through 78 precincts. Turnout was 47.28 percent of registered voters. There were 80,770 registered voters, and 38,192 voted. The total included 8,955 absentee ballots. Also among those voters were more than 10,000 who voted straight ticket: 5,812 Re...
House Intelligence Committee chair Devin Nunes on Sunday said the committee is investigating “many aspects” of China, due to its growing worldwide military presence and potential threats to global trade.
President Donald Trump signed an executive memorandum last Thursday, calling it the “first of many,” which would impose tariffs on up to $60 billion in Chinese imports to penalize the country for what the administration calls “unfair” trade practices, and its alleged theft of American intellectual property.
However, the California Republican said he wasn’t sure if recently-imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum would be the best way to take on China, though he suggested the U.S. strike trade deals with other Asian countries.
“Japan, possibly Vietnam, the Philippines, other places in Asia so that if China does want to get into a trade war that we can actually begin to open up more trade with their neighbors, where they’ll take some of our products that we grow here in America,” Nunes said.
In response to Trump’s actions, China announced retaliatory tariffs last Friday against $3 billion in American products, including steel, aluminum, pork and fruit. As a result, global stocks tumbled, including U.S. markets, where the S&P 500 saw its worst week in more than two years.
The S&P 500 fell 55.43 points, or 2.1%, to 2,588.26. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 424.69 points, or 1.77%, to 23,533.20. The Nasdaq Composite closed 174.01 points, or 2.43%, lower at 6,992.67.
“I do think it was an overreaction based on incomplete information,” White House National Trade Council Director Peter Navarro told Bartiromo on Sunday.
“At the end of the day, China’s a sovereign nation. It has to make a choice about how it wants to proceed in the global economy,” he said.
4 BED \| 2 BATH \| 2 CAR This 2007 built, four-bedroom home is neat and tidy, offering a rendered frontage, tiled roof and 2.4m ceilings in a quiet location. The home has a neutral decor throughout with floating floors in the main living areas and carpets to the bedrooms and formal lounge. There is approximately 232sqm o...
This 2007 built, four-bedroom home is neat and tidy, offering a rendered frontage, tiled roof and 2.4m ceilings in a quiet location.
The home has a neutral decor throughout with floating floors in the main living areas and carpets to the bedrooms and formal lounge.
There is approximately 232sqm of living space with an open-plan kitchen/family/dining area, with a dishwasher and gas cooktop plus a separate formal lounge.
The large master bedroom has a walk-in robe and a sizeable ensuite, while there are built-in robes to the remaining three bedrooms.
Externally there is a paved alfresco area accessed via double sliding doors from the family room, a double garage with auto roller doors and established gardens with good fencing, all on a 630sqm block.
The home is serviced by mains gas hot water and cooking plus ducted reverse-cycle airconditioning. Currently tenanted on a periodic lease at $300 per week.
Oct 25 (Reuters) - As Hurricane Sandy makes its way toward the eastern seaboard of the United States, disaster experts and meteorologists warn that the mid-Atlantic and Northeastern states face dangerous winds and heavy rains that could trigger flooding in the coming days.
Some forecasters even say that Sandy has the potential to be a multibillion dollar disaster greater than last year's Hurricane Irene, though it may be too soon to tell if it has the power and trajectory to fulfill that worst-case scenario.
There are concerns that Sandy could join with another storm approaching from the west, a ``nor'easter'' that was going to strike somewhere around New York City and New England next week anyway, hurricane or not.
If the two systems combine, the effects will be much worse than if Sandy were to turn and go out to sea.
``When that occurs there can be a bit of a synergy, sort of a 1 plus 1 equals 3 effect,'' said Michael Kistler, a product manager at RMS, one of the main firms used by the insurance industry to model potential disaster exposure.
Kistler said it was too soon to know if that would happen, how strong Sandy would be if it did and where landfall might ultimately occur - potentially, anywhere from the mid-Atlantic states up to the Canadian Maritimes, based on current tracking.
But he added that the computer models were suggesting that no matter where it hit, Sandy could be packing sustained winds from about 70 miles per hour (113 kph) to about 100 miles per hour (161 kph).
``Even at the weak side of this intensity range you're talking about things like tree fall, power disruption, disruption of infrastructure, and at the high end you're talking about more direct property damage,'' he said.
The uncertainty going into the weekend will remind many in the region of Irene, which struck in August 2011 and caused unexpectedly strong flooding from New Jersey to Vermont.
At $4.3 billion in losses, Irene ranks as one of the ten costliest hurricanes ever, adjusted for inflation and excluding federally insured damage, according to the Insurance Information Institute, an industry group.
Sandy slammed into southeastern Cuba on Thursday after sweeping through Jamaica and Haiti, cutting power and blowing over trees across the city of Santiago de Cuba.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami said at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) that it had moved well off the coast of Cuba and was approaching the central Bahamas with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph (169 kph).
It was still a Category 2 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity, but some weakening is expected over the next 48 hours as Sandy moves through the Bahamas island chain.
Sandy was forecast to drop below hurricane strength before making its expected U.S. landfall, but it's projected to be moving at a much slower speed, increasing the potential for damage because it will be longer lasting.
``If the storm were to make landfall in the U.S., it would be very large, perhaps even larger than Hurricane Irene,'' said Scott Stransky, a senior scientist at AIR Worldwide, another of the key modeling firms used by insurers.
For those who keep abreast of the weather via Twitter, warnings that were ominous on Wednesday started to turn outright panicky by Thursday morning.
``Window of escape closing ... only true question may be where, not if. All areas NC (North Carolina) to Mass (Massachusetts) likely to have hurricane conditions!'' said Joe Bastardi, the former chief long-range forecaster at AccuWeather who now serves as chief forecaster at analytics firm Weatherbell.
Even the Occupy Wall Street movement was keeping a close eye on conditions, crucial since many of its members are still outdoors more than a year into its campaign to highlight what it describes as an unfair economic system.
``Now is the time to start becom(ing) concerned. If the Euro model verified, it's lights out NYC, literally,'' the Occuweather feed wrote, referring to one of the main computer models used to predict storm paths.
But the experts agree it is far too soon for that level of panic, especially given that some models still suggest Sandy could weaken substantially or even turn to sea.
AIR's Stransky said it could be another five to six days before Sandy actually hits land, depending on how far north it goes - potentially threatening Halloween festivities, just like last year's unexpected snow storm.
The visit to Zamfara State in 2014 was at once frightening, sobering and demoralising. Though seated in a sprawling parlour with massive chairs, we were all unconsciously in a huddled position, as the then Secretary to the State Government explained how he abandoned his farm and ranch because of cattle rustling and fea...
Our visit to the state agricultural and animal husbandry project revealed some of the neatest looking cows and animal any of us had ever seen. There weren’t even animal droppings in the place. Why would cows in a local facility be looking like they came from a car wash? Then it hit some of us: the animals, not more tha...
We eventually met with the governor. My first question to him before things became somewhat more formal was whether he was related to Sule Lamido, the Jigawa State governor. The physical resemblance was not just striking but totally and mercilessly so. He answered in the negative and observed that he has had to answer ...
The Zamfara State governor’s comments about his state and the misfortunes of his people centred around “derivation,” as a lot of gold was mined in the state and carted away while his people were ravaged by poverty. He said that “Abuja people” and other big men and their Chinese collaborators controlled the place. There...
The smell of death hung in the air everywhere at the once-vibrant textile mill in the state. It had enough electricity generating capacity to serve the entire state but, like the textile mill itself, the generators were severely underutilized. It was producing nothing, except for some bales of raw cotton it was milling...
The dam in the state was in a grievous state of neglect. It had been for decades. It displaced more people and communities than was anticipated by the original Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) that preceded its construction. But most of such the displaced persons were not compensated. The swathes of lost farmlands...
Then we visited Bukuyum, one of the holy lands of Zamfara’s gold production. The place was dull, drab and dreary. The few local people around had an inexplicable wan look about them. You could touch the poverty in the air. Then were taken to the local government headquarters to wait for the local government chairman. H...
We were well received, but we did not feel well about our reception. There were just too many tattered looking young and not so young adults everywhere. The refreshment we were given was raided partly by some hungry bystanders and by some of those who helped in serving the food. Whatever was available was appropriate f...
This is the state that registered only 28 candidates for admission into secondary school. Meanwhile only 24 Zamfara students passed the last National Common Entrance Examinations (NECO). Is this how the state will become part of tomorrow’s world? Some other northern states have a better record, with 50 and even more. B...
And the relentless, daily killings are going on in all the northern states, while everyone thinks that power resides in the north today. It does not. Real power is seen in the level of living and social stability. The northern political elite would seem to have been diligently digging its own grave for quite some time ...
Property rates have crashed beyond measure all over the north. Investors have fled. Local economies have collapsed. Re-desertification has taken over many places, as farmlands and animal husbandry are abandoned. Proceeds of crime have become the new means of livelihood for a new majority, who now pose a threat to the c...
I listened with a mixture of dismay and consternation to a former, very highly respected, National Security Adviser at a stakeholders event he convened in Abuja on the herdsmen and kidnapping menace now plaguing the nation; and particularly North. He told us about his several meetings with kidnappers on various major r...
What really killed it for the retired soldier was when it was time for the afternoon prayers. Majority of these “Muslims” did not understand why he called for prayers. He also observed that many actually did not know how to pray. That was when a dreadful realisation hit him. The people he had come to see were ethnic Fu...
And it is in the midst of the foregoing that we are speaking of the abatement of the madness in the land? How? The late Abubakar Rimi would probably still be alive today if he had not encountered his ‘brothers’ on a lonely road in the dead of night. He spoke to them in Fulfulde. He even tried to reason with them about ...
The North is in trouble – and the rest of the nation with it. A region that has the highest allocation from oil revenue, the highest earnings from tax mostly paid by other regions, the highest earning from bunkering and the highest earnings from the illegal mining of gold and other natural resources, is ravaged by pove...
“Promise to hold on tight, daddy,” I said as I tried to steady the big hunk of metal beneath my scrawny legs.
His hands — stained and callused from long days in the oilfield — gripped the seat of my bike.
“Don’t worry, I’m right behind you,” he said, as I pushed off from the picnic table I was using to balance myself — one foot on the pedal, the other on the table.
My eyes settled back on those strong hands, making sure they were still there.
Before I knew it, I was doing circles on my bike in our front yard, my dad proudly smiling after letting go.
No matter what stage in my life, my dad has always been there to hold on tight.
From the moment I was learning to swim, to the time he carried me off the field after suffering an injury thanks to a metal tee and a poor attempt at a slide on my part, my dad has never once let go of that grip.
When I was about to pledge the rest of my life to my soulmate, he stood by my side as my best man. As my beautiful bride entered the church, he briefly grabbed my hand and told me I had done well.
When my wife and I gave him the first of his three grandsons, his smile lit up the room as he held on tight to that bundle of joy.
He’s loved all three of them as much as the last, and all three have their own little “Pampy” traits.
Our youngest — Jared — is a spitting image, from the blue eyes to the sarcastic smile to the way he sleeps with his mouth slightly open.
I know one day, that Pampy lookalike will ask me about his grandfather. Who was Pampy, he will most likely ask.
Pampy was Bobby James Aymond.
He was my dad. He was my hero. He was a soldier. He was a high school football star (four touchdowns in one game, look it up, son).
He was a friend. He was a clown. He was the life of the party. He was a son. He was a brother.
He was the unyielding grip in my life.
Even when my dad suffered paralysis from the chest down after complications from neck surgery, he never lost his grip.
Instead of his hands, it was those baby blue eyes, those eyes that always had a way of assuring you everything was OK.
For the past two years, his family and friends have watched his health deteriorate. But the one thing that never, and I mean NEVER, weakened was his grip.
He had a way of grabbing your heart and taking it for a ride. He was loved by many, hated by few.
From the doctors and nurses in Houston to the ones in Opelousas, he grabbed a piece of their heart and placed it alongside his.
Wednesday afternoon, that big old heart, the one that had survived three heart attacks — two of them massive — silently stopped beating.
He was surrounded by family and friends. It was his choice. He was tired of fighting, tired of holding on.
He took one last breath, turned his head and closed his eyes for good.
I wasn’t there. It may not have even happened that way. That’s the way I’ll remember it, though.
That’s the beauty of memories.
Wednesday night, as I drove my family from Pensacola, Florida, to my hometown of Port Barre, I caught myself asking my dad for help again.
“Promise to hold on tight, daddy, make sure we get to see you one more time,” I silently prayed.
At that moment, I looked over to my oldest son, staring out the window. I took a glance in the rear view mirror and saw my two younger kids sleeping, my wife sitting beside the youngest, watching him sleep.
And then it hit me. My dad had already done all he could. And he had done a fantastic job.
Brady Aymond, a Port Barre native, works at the Pensacola News Journal. He previously worked at The Daily Advertiser and the Daily World.
EDGEWOOD, Md. (Aug. 27, 2014) -- More than 200 rising fourth through 10th graders and their families gathered at an Army-hosted math and science summer camp closing ceremony at Richlin Ballroom Aug. 19.
The U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Command's communications-electronics center closed its 20th season of summer programming for students.
"The Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center has a long and distinguished history of supporting educational outreach. While STEM programs are plentiful in the current environment, in 1994, CERDEC was at the vanguard of the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) outreach movemen...
"The leadership at CERDEC across two decades has been dedicated to the idea that the only way to ensure the continued excellence of American innovation is to foster and grow the next generation of STEM leaders."
The CERDEC summer camp was broken into four week-long sessions based on students' grade levels. Each week focused on a different topic related to STEM, and students learned about those topic areas and performed STEM-based activities and experiments to help solidify their learning experience.
Rising fourth and fifth grade students spent the week learning about flight, rocketry and satellites, while rising sixth and seventh graders programmed LEGO Mindstorms robots to solve renewable-energy challenges.
Rising eighth and ninth grade campers looked at science and engineering in the movies and addressed various cinematic feats to determine if they could happen in real life.
The final week of Summer Camp was a new addition to program and introduced rising 10th graders to aspects of leadership and how to apply critical thinking, problem solving, creativity and innovation to their future careers in STEM or any other field.
"In normal camps for STEM, the kids don't really interact. They might sit in a classroom, solve problems on paper, but at CERDEC they want you to interact with students so you can figure out how to work with different people," said Afsa Simpson, Harford County student and fourth-year summer camp attendee.
"My advice to kids in lower grades who are interested in STEM is to try everything they can, especially during the summer. Take advantage of the free time we have to go to the many STEM camps," said Malcolm Ferguson, a Baltimore County student. "These programs have given me a chance to network with people who have jobs...
Attending this year's camp also helped solidified education and career goals of students.
"This camp reassured to me that I want to continue to follow the STEM path into engineering either as a civil engineer or a mechanical engineer later on in my life," said Tony Cruz, Harford County student. "This was my first year at the CERDEC Summer Camp, and I would have to say, this camp made my summer one of the be...
"Two important things I learned this week were communication and teamwork with problem solving," said Pricilla Lee, a Harford County student and first-time CERDEC Summer Camp attendee.
The idea of growing one's communication skills and curiosity were emphasized throughout the event.
"It's not about how smart you are, it's not the smartest people who succeed," said Baker in regards to advanced degrees. "It's the people who are the most curious, and the most interested in the problem they are working on."
CERDEC continues to reach students and encourage their interests in STEM fields every summer and throughout the school year. Next year's CERDEC Math and Science Summer Camp registration opens the first Monday of February. Information about registration and other programs can be found on the CERDEC website.
Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Garuda Indonesia customers can now book flights on both airlines when travelling between Singapore and Jakarta, with an expanded code-share agreement between the two carriers, SIA said yesterday.

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