| The right sugar fix
Nine-year-old Parth Verma is just like any other kid down the block - fun-loving and extremely bright. He makes no bones about hiding his passion for computers and cricket. A Class III student in Ryan International School, Noida, his life changed six years ago when he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Parth hardly understood what had happened - why suddenly the visits to "Dr Uncle" became more frequent. He understands it better now. Like computers and cricket, the Medtronic Paradigm 715 insulin pump has become a part of his life now. He has become adept at administering insulin himself. Thanks to the pump, at least he doesn't have to calculate his insulin dose daily. Parth is one of the 42 million people in India suffering from diabetes. If the World Health Organisation's estimates stand correct, the same figure will shoot to 80 million by 2030! In short, one case is being diagnosed every 20 seconds.
Corzine's a turkey to state workers used to Friday off
Governor Corzine, you are the blackguard who ruined Black Friday. You are a political Scrooge who ordered thousands of us underappreciated (and slightly hung over) Bob Cratchits back to work tomorrow just to score some points with voters. It's anti-family. It's anti-shopping. It's anti-American. These sentiments seethe through a sampling of the 2,500 e-mails from New Jersey government state workers sent to the governor, protesting his refusal to declare the Friday after Thanksgiving a paid day off. Corzine's decision bucks a decades-old tradition that has morphed into a de facto entitlement. The excerpts, provided by Corzine's office at the request of The Record, reverberate with shock, disbelief and a sense of betrayal that a pro-labor, liberal Democrat -- their guy, for goodness' sake -- would stoop so low.
Anti-smoking forces turn up the heat for ban
Michelle Pophal walked across the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus this week with a lit cigarette, unconcerned that the university might soon expand its smoking ban. "I'm working on quitting," said Pophal, a student from Merrill. UWGB is just one place where area anti-smoking forces are making strides. Limits on outdoor smoking have spread in recent years as nonsmokers have become increasingly active about staying away from cigarette smoke in public places. "Our organization has always stood behind efforts to remove the chances of people being exposed to secondhand smoke," said Rebecca Derenne, field government relations director for the American Cancer Society's Green Bay office. Hospitals in Brown County, acting on recommendations from the Wisconsin Hospital Association, have imposed tobacco bans on all hospital property.
CAREER LADDER: Jason Grill, Brenda Mott, Paulette Van Dyke
-Title: Attorney and Missouri state representative. -Organization: Holtsclaw & Kendall, 2029 Wyandotte St.; 816-221-2555. -Focus: Within the firm of Holtsclaw & Kendall, Grill will concentrate on helping people who have been injured in transportation accidents. He said he was excited about gaining more litigation and trial experience with Holtsclaw & Kendall. Grill is a state representative in the Missouri House, District 32, serving southern Platte County, and an adjunct professor in graduate law courses at Park University in Parkville. -Education: Grill earned a degree in economics, summa cum laude, from St. Louis University, and a JD with a certificate in dispute resolution from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law. He studied international economics in Rome through Loyola University in Chicago.
Audit questions $26,000 in charges tied to ex-MnDOT manager
Sonia Morphew Pitt, the fired director of Homeland Security and Emergency Management for the state Transportation Department, cost the state at least $26,000 in unauthorized charges and improper pay.
A summary of a state audit released Wednesday also said an investigation found that Pitt was inadequately supervised.
The audit, which was to be released in full later Wednesday, said the state incurred more than $11,500 in "unauthorized, unreasonable or inappropriate expenses." It also said that more than $14,500 of work she was paid for should have been recorded as personal leave.
The Transportation Department fired Pitt on Nov. 9. The agency's own investigation concluded that she charged the state for personal travel, amassed high bills on her state-issued cell phone because of personal calls and used poor judgment by not returning to Minnesota soon after the bridge collapse.
Uganda: Nakaseke Hospital - What is Behind the Health Workers' Strike?
HELL fury has erupted in Nakaseke Hospital. Not the whole hospital, but the gate. About 20 former members of staff demand to be let in. They want to strike. Of the 174 hospital staff, 28 have been transferred to health centres. These include clinical officers, nurses, nursing assistants, pharmacists, administrators and potters. Nakaseke chief administrative officer (CAO), Andrew Kyamanywa, insists the transfers were aimed at improving health centres. "Victimisation, sexual harassment," some transferred staff cry. But what is really happening? The cops are here. Their brief? .
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