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Although the infections in Allen's community vanished as quickly as they arrived, nobody knows if the bacteria are gone for good or simply waiting for another opportunity to strike again.
"Some of these bugs tend to come and go over decades, and the question now is what will happen with community-associated MRSA," says Bob Weinstein, an infectious disease physician who chairs the Department of Medicine for the Cook County Health and Hospitals System. "How long will it be here before it wanes – or will i...
Egypt agreed with Saudi Arabia to borrow $1.5 billion to develop the Sinai Peninsula, $1.2 billion to finance oil purchases over coming three months, Egyptian International Cooperation Minister Sahar Nasr said on Monday.
Another $1.5 billion in loans for Egypt’s Sinai development over five years were announced in December to be negotiated with the Kuwait Fund for Development, the Abu Dhabi Fund, the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development and the Islamic Development Fund.
Negotiations with the oil-rich kingdom are ongoing to agree on financing Egypt’s oil purchases within the coming five years, Nasr told Ahram Online via text message from the Saudi capital Ryiadh, where she arrived to chair the third meeting of the Egyptian-Saudi coordination Council.
The council’s fourth meeting is scheduled to be held in Cairo on 24 January, according to the minister.
Nasr said to urge the Saudi Public Investment Fund to quicken injecting 30 billion riyals ($8 billion) in new investments in Egypt’s sectors of housing, energy and tourism that were pledged by Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman last month.
Saudi Arabia has supported Cairo with billions of dollars in aid, grants, and cash deposits after the 2013 ouster of president Mohamed Morsi to help buoy the country's economy after several years of political upheaval sent foreign reserves tumbling.
Egypt's net foreign reserves stood at $16.4 billion at the end of November.
Switzerland or Colorado? This is Egypt, where 90% of the scares funding either goes to military toys, bridges to nowhere, or invisible pockets!
Considering the situation that Saudi finds itself in, Egypt has leverage to ask for more $$$, and not in the form of loans, but grants. It is Egypt with the demographic power to shore up the Gulf. It is Egypt with the military power to defend the Gulf. It is Egypt with the diplomatic power to heal the region. NOT SAUDI...
Egypt could be the leader of the Middle East, but to do so, it must reform its own economy and take responsibility for its problems. Grow your economy. No country became great by begging.
We are in record territory with this weather.
Coming off a low of 20 in New York City on Thanksgiving -- a tie for the coldest November 22 on record -- New Yorkers went into a second day of bone-chilling cold on Black Friday.
Friday was the coldest November day ever recorded in Bridgeport, Kennedy Airport and LaGuardia Airport. Bridgeport dipped to a brutal 13 degrees.
After the record cold morning, temperatures were set to warm for the afternoon -- but only into the upper 20s and lower 30s.
In Bryant Park, the Josephine Shaw Lowell Memorial Fountain was frozen off, a stunning annual indicator that freezing temperatures have set in.
Tourists, police and vendors were heeding the city's advice to bundle up and keep extremities warm, and most said the weather wasn't dampening their spirits.
"I guess it would’ve been slightly more enjoyable [if it had been warmer] but sometimes it happens all around Thanksgiving where it kind of becomes a part of the holiday with this cold and you just bear through it and enjoy all the festivities and stuff," Aja McWilliams said.
While the weekend it set to be warmer, clouds will roll in overnight ahead of the next storm system set to arrive late Saturday, Storm Team 4 said.
Most of Saturday is set to be dry, but rain will arrive late in the afternoon, continuing through early Sunday morning. Some areas could see more than an inch of rain, so some minor flooding is possible.
Warmer air will accompany this storm, so high temperatures will return to the 50s for the weekend. We'll enjoy a bright and mild Sunday before the next storm arrives on Monday with more rain.
COLUMBUS — Eligible voters will be able to complete their registrations online starting next year, under legislation signed into law by Gov. John Kasich today.
The governor added his signature to SB 63 without comment during a private ceremony at the Statehouse. Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted, an advocate of the move, and Sen. Frank LaRose (R-Copley), who sponsored the legislation, were among the invited guests on hand.
The legislation requires Husted’s office to establish and launch the secure, online registration system in January 2017.
Under the terms of the bill, applicants will have to provide their names, addresses, birth dates, the last four digits of their Social Security numbers and their driver’s license or state identification card number to complete the process.
Eligible residents already can update their voter registration information online. Voters could still opt to register using existing paper applications.
Republican and Democratic lawmakers have pursued online voter registration in recent sessions; the final version of the legislation postpones the effective date until after the November presidential election.
BRENDAN RODGERS has put himself forward to be the next Arsenal manager - as he broke his silence on speculation linking him with replacing Arsene Wenger.
Celtic boss Rodgers is one of the main candidates on the list of potential new bosses at the Emirates, if the club decide to ditch Wenger at the end of the season.
The former Liverpool manager was asked about the rumours linking him a move to North London as he prepared his side for their Scottish Cup quarter-final against Greenock Morton today.
And instead of playing down the story, Rodgers effectively advertised his services by saying his past successes make him the ideal man for the job.
Rodgers, 45, said: "People will look at it and see that I went to Liverpool, they were struggling for five seasons for Champions League football and I was able to get them back.
"And when I came to Celtic, they hadn’t been in the Champions League for three seasons and I got them back.
"So maybe people are thinking – OK, Arsenal have been out of the Champions League and is that maybe the equation for someone like myself.
"I’m loving my life up here. I’m not going to be here forever, but I’m living in a dream.
"And dreams always come to an end at some point, that’s for sure."
Rodgers, Germany boss Joachim Low, Mikel Arteta and Thierry Henry are among the names understood to be on the list being considered by Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis.
Owner Stan Kroenke will have the ultimate say on whether Wenger sees out the final year of his contract, but Gazidis is carrying increasing influence at the Emirates.
Rodgers added: “What you have to be prepared for when you manage the big clubs is there is maybe going to be between five and ten people linked with your job, you know that.
“It doesn’t happen in too many other industries.
“We live a privileged life, we get to manage and work with great players and great people.
“But with the big clubs comes big scrutiny and probably when my results drop off here a bit I’m sure there will be names linked – but you have to accept that as part of the job.
“Arsene will know that, he’s got great experience, he’s a really good man.
Today we'll be checking out the Gainward HD 4870 X2 up against a stock clocked HD 4870 X2. Let's find out what kind of performance boost we get from the extra memory speed on offer.
Our first test shows no real difference between the two graphics cards.
At Microsoft's Build conference in May this year, officials made a surprising announcement: iTunes would come to the Windows 10 Store before the end of calendar 2017.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this isn't happening this year after all.
"We have been working with Microsoft to deliver the full iTunes experience to our customers and we need a little more time to get it right," said an Apple spokesperson via an emailed statement.
I'm hearing the plans still remains for iTunes to come to the Windows 10 (now called Microsoft) Store at some point. But neither Apple nor Microsoft is providing any updated timing. Apple officials also declined to share what specifically is holding this up.
The lack of iTunes in the Windows Store may be most disappointing to Windows 10 S users, as that version of Windows only can run apps that are available in the Microsoft Store. Microsoft has been positioning Windows 10 S as well suited for students and others who want longer battery life and better security, but are wi...
Not long after the tragic mass shooting on Valentine's Day 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, some Cocoa High students were overheard on their campus talking about guns and a school attack.
The eavesdropping kids misinterpreted the discussion about the Parkland tragedy that occurred just a few days before, thinking that the conversation they had just heard was about an imminent plot against their own school. The students reported the conversation and Cocoa police scrambled to investigate.
In the end, it was nothing. But, Cocoa Police Chief Mike Cantaloupe said he was glad for the call and the many other false alarm calls he has received since.
"We're going to take every complaint as the real thing until we can prove it's not," Cantaloupe said. "Any time somebody's concerned, it's a legitimate concern. We don't want to discourage anybody from reporting" their suspicions. "It's just what we have to do," he added.
Welcome to the new world of policing schools, where most threats — no matter how seemingly trivial — are taken seriously and acted upon swiftly by school administrators and law enforcement.
It could be graffiti scribbled on a locker with a Sharpie, saying "God, I hate this place and want it to go away!" Or a vague, or maybe not-so-vague, social media post with more ominous verbiage.
Whatever the case, in the post-Parkland, post-Sandy Hook (2012) and post-Columbine (1999) world we live in — the way police now view school security has changed drastically, with more attention paid to such things as having school resource officers, active shooter drills and debates over arming school staff.
Many of the local law enforcement top brass who spoke to FLORIDA TODAY support whatever it takes to make schools more secure and create a greater sense of safety. They either have children in schools themselves, or have friends and relatives who do.
But there is an underlying fear that demands for more officers at schools, more specialized training and more analysts watching social media may soon outstrip funding that may lead to painful decisions over how best to allocate law enforcement resources. School security has to compete with other law enforcement duties ...
"You’re taking from an existing staffing pool to do yet another thing," said Melbourne Police Commander Marc Claycomb.
Palm Bay police wasted little time acting after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.
School resource officers at Palm Bay's three high schools were immediately on the lookout for the possibility of any would-be copycats wanting to emulate the Valentine's Day shooting, while officers and detectives were pulled from assignments to fan out to middle and elementary schools in Brevard's most populous munici...
At the same time, the department reached out to parents and teachers to establish deeper contacts and build better relationships that would serve them in case of an emergency.
They implemented what appears to be standard operating police procedure around the state: a policy, in the words of Palm Bay Deputy Chief Nelson Moya, "where every threat is investigated."
The approach covers social media, overheard conversations and reports from teachers.
"Everything is taken seriously," said Moya, who has been with the department since 1991.
There was also a review of all school layouts so the department was acutely aware of any weak points at every facility. The department also created a unique dispatch code for school incidents.
In May, Palm Bay Police arranged for all local school principals to practice at what's known as The SMART Range, an interactive shooting simulator with real-life scenarios. The training also included Brevard Schools Superintendent Mark Mullins, who then was the district's chief operating officer. The training was speci...
"What we wanted our schools to know was how we respond to these incidents," Moya said. "We want to instill in them some confidence of who we are as an organization when it comes to applying these techniques."
Finally, there was major active shooting exercise at the First Pentecostal Church, with role players as hostages and one as an active shooter.
"We've looked at other agencies and had the unfortunate benefit of learning from others," Moya said of the training.
Cocoa Chief Cantaloupe said lessons learned from mass shootings dating back to Columbine have changed generally accepted police tactics. Now, the first officer on the scene is supposed to enter the school and find the shooter, rather than wait for backup or a SWAT team.
"You find the threat and eliminate it," Cantaloupe said. "The idea is to limit your casualties."
Claycomb said "prior to Columbine, we would set up a perimeter, we would make contact and we would call for the SWAT team and then they would decide what action needed to be taken."
"After Columbine, we no longer have that luxury," he said.
With departments being asked to do more at schools, funding for new officers and overtime is critical. State lawmakers, after Parkland, have made sure some resources are available.
But there's a reasonable fear that the money spigot will go dry and the mandates will remain in place, or increase.
That could cause some funding problems for municipalities down the road.
"Every agency has to prioritize resources for their departments," said David Perry, the new president of the Florida Police Chiefs Association. "Sometimes, you're robbing Peter to pay Paul to make sure these mandates are met and areas get the right coverage that they need."
Perry, who also is the police chief at Florida State University, added: "If you don't get new staffing for new positions that go to schools, you will have to take people away from other areas."
And then there is the issue of having enough individuals seeking out law enforcement as a career. A nationwide problem, some are shunning the profession because of lower pay, general disinterest by millennials in policing and also because of a fear that lawmakers aren't siding with officers as they have in the past.
According to 2015 federal data, the bottom tenth-percentile for an officer’s salary is $33,430.
"The talent pool is smaller and shallower, and retention is tough," Claycomb, in Melbourne, said. "Not as many people want to be police officers."
That said, Claycomb and others said they understand the importance of keeping schools safe.
"We take it all very seriously, because it's not if it's going to happen again, it's when," he said. "And we want to make sure our community is safe as it possibly can be."
Cantaloupe says, when he and his officers get a call about a threat involving a school, they realize that "it may be something or it may be nothing."
Still, he emphasizes that he wants those calls to continue to come in.
"Our worst fear," Cantaloupe said, "is it could be real."
On Sunday, education reporter Caroline Glenn looks at how the Parkland tragedy has reshaped the lives of students, parents and principals. For some, the tragedy and the possibility of it happening again is always at the forefront of their minds. School officials find it a burden; moms and dads are sometimes anxious. Th...
LIVE365, which for the past 17 years, offered small webcasters the opportunity to stream music and talk content, has announced a downsizing, due to the new royalty rates established recently by the COPYRIGHT ROYALTY BOARD for 2016-2020 (NET NEWS 12/17).
LIVE365 points to the fact that previous provisions for small webcasters to opt for a percentage of revenue model were not renewed, and end at the end of the year. "The absence of this license will make legally streaming copyrighted musical content prohibitively expensive for many small to mid-sized Internet broadcaste...
Two weeks ago, LIVE365 also lost the support of its investors, forcing it to significantly reduce staff and is now actively looking for partners to help continue the service into 2016. At this time, LIVE365 is planning to keep their stations active while seeking new investments "from a company looking to diversify into...
CEO N. MARK LAM has begun initial discussions with possible business partners as the company looks to new options in the new year.
Inquiries may be sent to the company at pr@live365.com.
Ashok Leyland on Monday launched new variants of intermediate commercial vehicle (ICV) GURU 1010 and a medium duty vehicle (MDV) Boss 1616 and 1916.
The company is betting on providing better profitability to the customer with the new variants by providing better operational efficiency in terms of driver comfort and fuel efficiency.
While GURU 1010 is 10 tonne gross vehicle weight (gvw) , Boss will come in 16 and 19 tonne gvw. The company is betting on providing better profitability to the customer with the new variants by providing better operational efficiency in terms of driver comfort and fuel efficiency.
For the 10 months from April to January, the commercial vehicle segment growth stood at 23% y-o-y at 8,10,853 units. The commercial vehicle segment was faring well until October with M&HCV segment growing at 12% y-o-y at 27,571 units and LCV growing at 32% y-o-y at 55,593 units.
However, in November, the growth took a reverse trend with M&HCV de-growing at 19% y-o-y and LCV at 18% y-o-y. The tipper segment was relatively unaffected on the back of road construction, affordable housing, irrigation projects and government spending on infrastructure projects. For December, M&HCV segment declined b...

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