Muara Teweh! News

By Greg IP

A four-year college degree, seen for generations as a ticket to a better life, is no longer enough to guarantee a steadily rising paycheck.

Just ask Bea Dewing. After she earned a bachelor’s degree — her second — in computer science from Maryland’s Frostburg State University in 1986, she enjoyed almost unbroken advances in wages, eventually earning $89,000 a year as a data modeler for Sprint Corp. in Lawrence, Kan. Then, in 2002, Sprint laid her off.

“I thought I might be looking a few weeks or months at the most,” says Ms. Dewing, now 56 years old. Instead she spent the next six years in a career wilderness, starting an Internet café that didn’t succeed, working temporary jobs and low-end positions in data processing, and fruitlessly responding to hundreds of job postings. Read more…

The vital medical equipment can now be bought by health bosses at Clitheroe Health Centre – thanks to funding from a local group.

Members of the Waddington-based The Royal Forest Lodge No. 401 have donated £1,500 towards new medical equipment, including the funding of digital blood pressure machines.

The money has come from the Provincial Grand Master’s Fund Committee from the West Riding Masonic Charities Limited.

Mr Keith Lavender secretary of the Lodge said: “We are delighted to have been able to help particularly as the medical items are not available on the NHS.”
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Waco city officials have allocated $2 million more than last year to cover fuel costs in a proposed budget for next year.

High prices at the pump are forcing the city to consider changes to their city vehicles. Some of those changes include possibly adding hybrid cars and special meters that let city workers know at what speeds they can save the most gas.

The changes were presented at a city council workshop Tuesday afternoon. The entire budget is around $218.3 million, City Manager Larry Groth has allocated $5.1 million for gas and diesel fuel. That amount has gone up nearly $2 million from last year.

But Groth says he considers Waco a “blessed community” because the city isn’t as financially strapped as some other cities. “I’m not going to council and saying we’re cutting out “x” to pay for it.
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Patients will be able to escape NHS queues by demanding treatment anywhere in the European Union without the prior approval of a doctor, under proposals to guarantee health rights unveiled today in Brussels.

The NHS would then be duty bound to refund the British cost of the procedure under the new rules for cross-border healthcare.

Today’s proposed EU directive will give patients in all 27 member states the same rights to treatment on the NHS as British patients. It also guarantees that the full cost of treatment abroad will be refunded when an NHS professional has agreed that it is necessary for the patient to go overseas.

Patients will still have to pay their own travel and accommodation costs. They will not be able to demand funding abroad for treatments not available on the NHS, such as cosmetic surgery.
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Patients will be able to escape NHS queues by demanding treatment anywhere in the European Union without the prior approval of a doctor, under proposals to guarantee health rights unveiled today in Brussels.

The NHS would then be duty bound to refund the British cost of the procedure under the new rules for cross-border healthcare.

Today’s proposed EU directive will give patients in all 27 member states the same rights to treatment on the NHS as British patients. It also guarantees that the full cost of treatment abroad will be refunded when an NHS professional has agreed that it is necessary for the patient to go overseas.

Patients will still have to pay their own travel and accommodation costs. They will not be able to demand funding abroad for treatments not available on the NHS, such as cosmetic surgery.
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According to the National Center for Environmental Health, each year in the summer months more people die in this country from extreme heat than from hurricanes, lightning, tornadoes, floods and earthquakes combined.

“(Summer heat) can be life-threatening, especially if you are elderly and have a medical condition,” said Holly Rush-Earle, community relations coordinator for the Butler County HEAP program.

There are several options available to residents to receive air-conditioning assistance or to make their homes more energy efficient during the summer months. Read more…

No matter where you are swimming — in your backyard or community pool — you should know the difference between a healthy pool and a risky one.

In the last decade, the number of illnesses resulting from a swim in unclean water has increased, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with children, pregnant women and those with compromised immune systems at particular risk of developing severe illnesses if infected.

Proper pool treatment and healthy behavior are keys to a safe swim protecting water quality and swimmer health. In fact, when it comes to pool treatment, chlorine remains the first line of defense against germs.

But, how can you tell the difference between a healthy pool and a risky one? Using your sense of sight, touch, smell and sound can help, according to a national partnership formed by the CDC, National Consumers League, Water Quality and Health Council, and the American Chemistry Council. Read more…