| Indefinite leave of absence a tricky situation
Q. We have a long-term employee who is suffering from chronic diabetes. He went out on disability in July 2006 to begin treatments. We expected him to be away for about two months.
More than a year later, he hasn't come back. Several months after he left, we received a disability claim from him. No money has been paid yet, nor has a hearing been scheduled.
In the meantime, the head of human resources has met with the employee to see what was going on and to determine if the guy could come back to work. Unfortunately, we've had no luck in persuading him to come back. So my first question is: Can we terminate him, or would the repercussions be too great?
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Where you turn: On tap
Tulsan Mary Scott Hicks takes a stroll through her memories of growing up with her cousin Coretta Scott King and the lessons she learned from her famous cousin's example in “Two Cousins Walking Through Faith" at the John H. Williams Theatre of the Tulsa Performing Arts Center, Second Street and Cincinnati Avenue.
Show begins at 8 p.m. and continues Saturday night. Tickets are .
STAs big hit with duck hunters
South Florida's stormwater treatment areas offer some of the best public duck hunting in the country, and there's a chance that the number of hunting opportunities might increase for next season.
Speaking at the United Waterfowlers Florida annual meeting earlier this month in Clewiston, Jerry Krenz, the South Florida Water Management District's program manager for Everglades recreation, said that the two impoundments directly south of STA 5 in Hendry County could be opened to hunting along with the western impoundment at STA 2 in Palm Beach County.
Those and other STA issues will be discussed Feb. 22 at a staff meeting attended by Krenz and his district colleagues and wildlife biologists and law enforcement officers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Reversal Of Alzheimer's Symptoms Within Minutes
An extraordinary new scientific study, which for the first time documents marked improvement in Alzheimer's disease within minutes of administration of a therapeutic molecule, has just been published in the Journal of Neuroinflammation.
This new study highlights the importance of certain soluble proteins, called cytokines, in Alzheimer's disease. The study focuses on one of these cytokines, tumor necrosis factor-alpha(TNF), a critical component of the brain's immune system. Normally, TNF finely regulates the transmission of neural impulses in the brain. The authors hypothesized that elevated levels of TNF in Alzheimer's disease interfere with this regulation. To reduce elevated TNF, the authors gave patients an injection of an anti-TNF therapeutic called etanercept. Excess TNF-alpha has been documented in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with Alzheimer's.
Minister in row over cash gift
THE health secretary Alan Johnson became the latest cabinet minister to be embroiled in a scandal over donors last night after he was accused of accepting cash through a proxy. A student, Waseem Siddiqui, said he was asked by his brother, a local Labour party official, to write a cheque for £3,334 towards Johnson’s failed bid to become deputy leader. Johnson admitted last night that the gift was one of four donations he had received that have not yet appeared on the register of the official watchdog, the Electoral Commission. There are conflicting accounts about when his campaign notified the watchdog. The revelations will cause severe embarrassment for the health secretary, coming just days after the resignation of his cabinet colleague Peter Hain, who faces a Metropolitan police inquiry into £103,000 of undeclared donations for his own failed deputy leadership bid.
Annie’s Mailbox: Husband should consider self
Dear Annie: My wife and I recently celebrated our 43rd wedding anniversary. It was not a happy occasion for me.My wife was an alcoholic for years. She left our children and me on three different occasions, and I took her back each time because I wanted to keep my family together. Once, she went with co-workers to a bar after work and was brought home five hours later by two men who had gone through her purse to find her address. My wife finally got treatment and has been sober for 20 years. Things in our marriage became OK, but not great.Ten years ago, I found out she'd had an affair when she told me I needed to be tested for a venereal disease. The guy was a co-worker and someone I'd known for years. Since that time, things have gone downhill. It doesn't help that she gets mad at me for just about everything.
Girls school in Wheeling closing after 160 years
The school's remaining eight sisters voted unanimously Jan. 10 to close the academy, which is co-educational from preschool through grade 4 and girls-only from grades 5 through 12, on May 31, which is Visitation Day. Many parents of the school's 134 students, as well as several former students, met at the school last Wednesday to talk about trying to save their alma mater, which has posted an annual shortfall of $600,000 or more in recent years. Winter heating costs alone have amounted to more than $11,000 a month despite relatively warm weather. Susan Board, who graduated in 1972 and later sent her three daughters to the Mount, said she had heard the school was having financial problems, but was shocked to hear it will close. "I'm certainly hoping something can be done about it," said Mrs.
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