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A case for upgrading your present job premise for taking online degree course

Government hospitals and a number of private medical institutions were under thorough scrutiny by the medicos of Community health and hygiene classes; as part of the practical session. The things that got noted without effort were the spaciousness and roominess of some old colonial structures with renovations in part. Good ventilation and a perpetual sense of being in the shade with cool and quiet, clean and fruity smell of some phenol concoction... Young medicos used to imagine how easily they could be absorbed in these big rooms and wide passages. Hundred pupils would not even be seen. The laboratories in such institutions fitted the above descriptions aptly.In most cases these were manned by a medical officer MBBS only. At one of the LABS the chief pathologist was away on a lecture tour or busy with post mortem reports. What was most remarkable was that this doctor in charge was literally a *tome* of knowledge. When we learnt he was here almost 24 hours a day full time i.e. and was handling all this for almost 10 years. We grew silent. Why didn’t he do his post graduation and earn a high degree. All we got was a mystic smile like Mona Lisa. Pictures don’t speak. The lab assistant, old faithful, said of the doctor, "GoS, job competition is too great. When you are in this position you don’t have to fight for facilities, facilities come to you. Doctor Sahab had a family to support. They all lived in a house in the hospital premises." What I’ve written is the typical example. The other examples of laboratory and departments in charge, and the demonstrators had all this in common plus some were in private service some of lesser duration of service, some lived very near by the workplace, and some did private practice in a lane behind the hospital.The doctors who came later were as" non motile" as their predecessors and objected to post graduate studies centre being far away from their place of work and the timings not suitable. But still, it was difficult to take - not able to spare just 2 years to get a post graduate degree and that too with so much knowledge of their respective subject! One MBBS doctor I know was in charge of a Lab in a medical teaching hospital - hundreds of students gained knowledge through his guidance and teaching. He also knew the post graduate course by rote. This is so frustrating - is this what MBBS does to some local doctors on the academic side! I’m sure he’s one of those family providers who would see to it that his sons and daughters become doctors and high class specialists coached at home by dad a paragon of medical knowledge! Now coming to a different example in the same atmosphere that is a Lab. Again, it is my fortune, to have a personal experience. I cite examples from 2 time zones. One when I was in inter-science and the other when I was doing physiology as part of my MBBS course. First things first. Our inter science Lab (biology) had a regular Lab assistant. He was also studying for his MA finals. Now I wish to talk about Lab boys. There were a number of them changing shifts. On closer query, I found out these Lab boys were not doing a job. They were just helping big brother. They belonged to the kin of the Lab assistant. Some of them were accommodated at the college premises, and the rest of the kin lived very close by. One of these Lab boys I observed was exceptional. He knew English, in fact he knew by rote the biology text book. He was a walkie talkie of biology. He used to help around saving our masterpieces of vivisection the cockroach, whose delicate gland was about to get accidentally severed. He could help make realistic diagrams. He pointed out the exact organelle’s name to put in a confusion of badly printed crowdedly labeled diagrams. To cut a long story short - further study was not envisaged for him. They could not afford to. No matric. He was learning how to drive. He wanted to be a driver.!

Then another Lab boy I encountered in Physio. Lab in 2nd year MBBS. He knew his stuff. His family was living on medical college premise.This boy couldn’t afford to study further. He had studied up to inter science. He was a whizz at experiments, and handling animals. He knew our journals by heart and all the answers to questions which the internal examiner would ask at physiology practicals. It gave such an empty feeling of anti climax like coming down a ferris wheel without any butterflies in the stomach! These few examples are steep enough and deep enough to make a firm impression. And I take the freedom to show you this" slide" of my impression duly labelled incarceration supreme - ABC and D. And this slide has an ingrained appeal to all. To give consent to take adequate steps to bring out such people from the incarceration. They cannot leave their premises to study. So let the course come to These candidates are worth much more but I would suggest MPhil, MSc, BSc, as the convenient courses to begin.

Although the chief concerned parties in this programme would be just 3 - the highest education authority, the ones who will join the course as students, and of course the teachers; yet something must be said about the institutions where these courses will be actually implemented. These institutions will broadly be the ones belonging to a teaching hospital or a non teaching hospital. If the teaching hospital is within a medical university, say, like Baqai hospital, then the doctor or the Lab assistant working there have got it made. They need not travel to another part of the city to do their course. But, if the teaching hospital with its college are independent then the department of the doctor or Lab assistant doing the course must be spacious enough to allow it to be upgraded. Now non teaching hospitals like the old renovated spacious ones that I’ve mentioned about, have a drawback i.e. of the six basic subjects namely, anatomy, bio chemistry, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, and microbiology - anatomy and physiology are difficult to arrange. M.phil course for the doctor,and BSc and MSc courses for the Lab. assistant, can all easily be done in all the basic subjects in a teaching hospital. There are plenty of state of the art hospitals in the urban areas. They have the most modern equipment and excellent shining and gleaming first class Labs. They are fully staffed with M.phils, Fcps and foreign returned and fully qualified doctors and chief technicians manning the clinical pathology and histology, biochemistry labs. and microbiology departments. If they have an exceptional medical officer or a brilliant Lab. assistant who is desirous of doing a post-graduate or graduate course in M.phil or BSc medical technology respectively; while workeeng in such Labs. they should be considered for arranging a course.

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    Photos: Madagascar's wonderful and wild frogs, an interview with Sahonagasy (03/03/2010) To save Madagascar's embattled and beautiful amphibians, scientists are turning to the web. A new site built by herpetologists, Sahonagasy, is dedicated to gathering and providing information about Madagascar's unique amphibians in a bid to save them from the growing threat of extinction. "The past 20 years have seen resources wasted;;;;;;;;;;;; because it was not available."

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Guyana bans gold mining in the 'Land of the Giants' (03/01/2010) Guyana has banned gold dredging in the Rewa Head region after an expedition turned up unspoiled wilderness and mind-boggling biodiversity. The researchers, in just six weeks, stumbled on the world's largest snake (anaconda), spider (the aptly named goliath bird-eating spider), armadillo (the giant armadillo), anteater (the giant anteater), and otter (the giant otter), leading them to dub the area 'the Land of the Giants'.

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One Would Like To Hear The Story Of The Side That Is Doing It;Why!What happens if these big mammals stay put and are not 'hazed' somewhere against their will(i liked the expression it really simply tells you the meaning of it all).i can expect the Doctor coming up and simply saying because it is good for them!but really look at all the objections!how will you explain them away!

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· · Ocean Energy on the Verge of Rapid Growth?

· · Topsail beach renourishment project begins - WECT

· · Wave energy ‘could create 52000 jobs’

· · Squaxin Island Tribe Further Testing Mushrooms as Water Quality Solution Ocean Energy on the Verge of Rapid Growth?

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 10:24 AM PST

Is the global ocean energy industry at a turning point? With all the attention focused on energy efficiency and smart grid, and with more mature renewable sectors like wind struggling, we haven’t heard much about ocean energy in the last year or two.

Financing is tight and venture capital is extra-cautious as the world struggles to get through this tough recession. It’s not the best time for a new industry to gain footing.

High initial costs and long development lead times makes the industry dependent on government support. Ocean energy has received much less support than solar or wind, but that could change. Costs are high because prototypes must stand up to ocean storms, and in the U.S. they must navigate a confusion of overlapping offshore permitting authorities.

After only a dozen wave and tidal prototypes were installed in 2009, more than 45 projects will have been tested in 2010 and 2011, according to IHS Emerging Energy Research. If these prototypes are successful, IHS believes the global ocean energy project pipeline is poised to begin scaling. They estimate that more than 1.8 GW of ocean projects in 16 countries are currently in the pipeline.

Could Ocean Energy be Problematic for Marine Life?

But concerns are surfacing that the electro-magnetic fields created by tide and wave generators (and the cables that bring their electricity to shore) could interfere with the natural guidance systems used by marine life.

Salmon, sharks, sea turtles, lobsters and crabs are among the marine life that use internal compasses that rely on the Earth’s magnetic fields. They travel thousand of miles each year using the earth’s magnetic fields to navigate. Ocean energy machines might also produce a low hum that could interfere with communication among whales. It’s long been known that the use of military sonar poses a deadly threat to whales, many of which have been found dead or dying following massive sonic blasts.

Research hasn’t been done on how these power devices affect the marine environment.

Promise for Energy Supply

The Northwest Power Planning Council estimates ocean energy could eventually supply 10% of US energy, with 50,000 MW off the Northwest coast, equal to the output of 50 nuclear plants.

Other sites under consideration are off the coast of Maine, Hawaii, Alaska, Florida and in the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge.

Thanks to government policy support, the UK holds the lead in ocean energy - 300 MW of projects are in the pipeline to be installed over the next five years. The UK wants to add 1.3 GW by 2020 to help meet its legally binding 2020 renewable targets. Ireland, France, Portugal, South Korea and Australia are also key ocean energy markets and will remain the industry’s primary focus for the next decade, according to IHS.

And it’s not just tiny, start-ups that are pushing the field forward. A slew of established energy firms, including leading European utilities and global technology suppliers with hydro and offshore wind experience, are interested in establishing leadership positions.

Of the various forms of ocean energy, tidal energy is poised to mature first because it offers the promise of predictable, lower-cost electricity and a standard design.

"The strong synergies between tidal turbine manufacturing and the hydropower industry have attracted major power sector OEMs," says IHS Senior Renewable Power Analyst Marianne Boust. "Over the past two years, all three of the major hydropower turbine vendors - Andritz Hydro, Alstom Hydro, and Voith Hydro - who account for over 80 percent of the global hydro turbine supply, have jumped into the tidal sector."

Because these large hydro players see tidal energy as a synergistic growth opportunity, they are crucial to catalyzing quick development and commercialization of the tidal industry. They could help the ocean energy industry overcome its technological challenges and drive down costs.

Key companies that are active in scaling Europe’s offshore wind industry are also eyeing ocean energy as they scale their renewable portfolios. Iberdrola-ScottishPower, Vattenfall, RWE and SSE all have a strong presence in offshore wind. Each is broadening to include ocean energy. A few have taken equity stakes in ocean technology firms, but most are funding project development through joint ventures.

Ocean Power Technologies Leads

The only pure-play publicly traded company in ocean energy is Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT), which is developing the first commercial scale wave energy system in the US off the coast of Oregon. The 1.5MW wave energy system, which will power about 1000 homes, is expected to be deployed in 2011.

In September, OPTT received $4.8 million in funding from the US Department of Energy, on top of $2 million it received in 2008. They are using the funds to construct the Oregon project and to develop its next generation 500kW system, which will have greater power extraction efficiency. The company is also focused on implementing a "Design-for-Manufacture" approach and reducing maintenance costs, to achieve lower installed capital and energy costs and make wave power more competitive with fossil fuels.

Also in September, OPTT connected a wave energy device to the US grid for the first time at the US Navy’s Marine Corps Base in Hawaii. The connection demonstrates the ability of wave systems to produce utility-grade, renewable energy that can be transmitted to the grid.

The Navy has supported Ocean Power’s technology development through its $15 million Littoral Expeditionary Autonomous PowerBuoy (LEAP) program. OPTT is providing an autonomous wave energy conversion system for the Navy’s near-coast anti-terrorism and maritime surveillance program.

OPTT is also working with Mitsui Engineering Shipbuilding Co to apply its technology off the coast of Japan. In October 2009, a Japanese consortium signed a MOU to develop wave energy in Japan.

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The IHS study, Global Ocean Energy Markets and Strategies: 2010-2030, analyzes the various ocean technologies and companies and the potential size and timing for ocean energy scaling.

Source: Sustainable Business

Article source: http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/20110105/ocean-energy-verge-rapid-growth.htmTopsail beach renourishment project begins - WECT

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 10:21 AM PST

Reported by Lindsay Curtin bio | email

PENDER COUNTY, NC (WECT) - Most people go to the beach to have fun without realizing the work it takes to keep it beautiful.

A $7.3 million project is finally underway for the town of Topsail Beach.

Over the next couple months, dredging companies will be pumping 900,000 cubic yards of sand to the beach. The extra sand will provide added protection against beach erosion and home damage in the event of a hurricane.

"It flattens out the beach, stops the wave action and slows the erosion of the beach, so it basically helps protect from beach erosion in hurricanes and offers a higher level of protection for structures," said Topsail Town Manager Tim Holloman.

No matter how expensive the project might be, most residents agree it is worth it, considering almost all of Topsail Island sits in aFEMA declared flood zone. The project is expected to be finished at the end of March.

Copyright 2010 WECT. All rights reserved.

Article source: http://www.wect.com/Global/story.asp?S=13790567Wave energy ‘could create 52000 jobs’

Posted: 05 Jan 2011 10:14 AM PST

Nearly 70,000 jobs could be created if Ireland’s ocean energy sector is fully developed and meets the government’s 2020 renewable targets, a new report says.

According to SQW Energy’s Economic Study for Ocean Energy Development in Ireland, which was commissioned by the government’s Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland and Invest Northern Ireland, wave energy could generate up to 52,000 employment positions, while tidal energy could result in 17,000 jobs, the Irish Times reported.

The all-Ireland ocean energy sector could be worth about EUR9 billion, the report suggests.

An "appropriate level of investment" in the sector could provide "long-term sustainable growth and wealth creation", it added.

In November last year, An tSl Ghlas - The Green Way, which is composed of green industry firms, third level institutions and local authorities, predicted that Ireland’s green sector will create about 10,000 jobs over the next five years.

An tSl Ghlas, the country’s first green economic zone, is based in Dublin.Squaxin Island Tribe Further Testing Mushrooms as Water Quality Solution

Posted: 05 Jan 2011 10:12 AM PST

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January 5, 2011

The Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission issued the following news release:

Mushrooms might help treat one of the most widespread causes of water pollution — fecal bacteria from human and livestock waste in stormwater runoff. And if it works, the system can be used to protect the rich shellfish heritage of Puget Sound.

The Squaxin Island Tribe is teaming up with Mason Conservation District and Fungi Perfecti to test how well the vegetative growth (mycelia) of fungi filters fecal coliform bacteria out of running water.

"Several field studies have demonstrated that mushroom mycelia can capture and remove bacteria in running water," said John Konovsky, environmental program manager for the Squaxin Island Tribe. "The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe worked with Battelle Labratories on a large treatment system and found that fungi mycelia can reduce bacteria concentrations. We’re trying to figure out just how well it works on a smaller scale."

The tribe will put polluted water at Mason County’s Allyn wastewater treatment plant through a series of tests, and track how well the water cleans up over time. If the mushroom technique works on this small scale, it might become a very cost-effective method for removing fecal coliform from running water.

The theory is that mycelia act as biological filters. As they grow, they capture and consume bacteria from contaminated water eliminating them from the environment.

Polluted upland runoff washing into Puget Sound each winter is a common cause for closing shellfish harvest. "Shellfish growers fear this yearly cycle of pollution," Konovsky said. "We need innovative and cost effective solutions to solve the problem."

"Our benchmark for cleaning up Puget Sound is whether we can eat its shellfish and harvest healthy populations of salmon," said Andy Whitener, natural resources director for the tribe. "Mushrooms might be able to help us do that. They could be another valuable weapon in our fight to clean up Puget Sound.

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I agree with the side that says, "Violence and gory details in children’s literature has increased." I find that children’s literature today is for the most part made up of the comic book brand of stories. These not only have populist appeal but are also ubiquitous (A comic book Company in the first five years, sold more than 80 million comic books. Also its characters have seen publishing in a number of languages internationally-Wikipedia/internet). Which is why they are more widely available to children as compared to the decent literature. The latter no doubt is parent (And ...

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