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Geotextile-Bamboo fascine mattress is being used for the 3m. embankment built over 20.4 miles long swampy area within Pyin Win and Min Pyin (Rakhine state), which is part of highway linked Yangon and Kyaukphyu . The swampy area consists of 6m. very soft bluish grey clayey silt with decayed wood underlain by soft and medium clayey silt of 15m. and 12m. Depth, respectively both with traces of tine sand and peat. The borrowed material for the embankment is clayey silt sand, which can be completed on December 2004 for access to the in-tended seaport. About 11 miles has been done using the technique with TS50 Polyfelt and GP250 Confelt needle-punched nonwoven geotextile. Polyfelt did preliminary design for the section of geotextile. Recorded settlement of the embankment reaches to around 0.45 inches in 5 months.

With the technique, heavy construction equipments were able to operate with minimal heave reported. The use of bamboo allows the placement and seaming of geotextile making it as a good working platform even on a very soft and poor sub grade condition. The bamboo also enhances the bearing capacity as mentioned in one paper by Yusuf et al (1989). It serves as reinforcement at the base of the fill by providing bending and tensile resistances but only in just limited service period for maximum of 5 years due to decomposition. With geotextile, it serves as separator to prevent fill mixing with the soft deposits and causing remolding and excessive heave. Intermixing of the fill and soft deposit will also result to loss of mechanical properties of the fill and savings of fill up to 400% compared to conventional filling of embankment. The geotextile enables rapid dissipation of pore water pressure.

PHP is the most common gateway interface program that is usually installed in web servers for processing clients’ requests. There are free web hosting sites that offer PHP program but with limited functions. However, if one is interested to learn PHP, this segment of the site will guide you in setting up PHP in Microsoft Window XP OS. The official website of PHP is at http://www.php.net where all PHP software are available for downloads. The most recent PHP version is 5.2.5 and a lower version, which is the PHP 4.4.8, can also be downloaded at http://th.php.net/get/php-4.4.8-Win32.zip/from/a/mirror but its documentation is not anymore supported by the said site. Before installing the PHP program, Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) is required which can be installed under the Add/Remove Windows components. The figure shown below is necessary for the IIS configuration:

All html files should be stored under c:\inetpub\wwwroot\ directory including the php files. Accessing the html/php file can be done by typing http://localhost/example.php or http://computername/example.php in your web browser. With the set-up, then one can also start developing web based LAN applications.

Seeing what is not–yet is not about drawing the boundaries the way Socrates would have liked it. It is all about dissolving them, going further beyond the limits. It is also about some of the ways in which you can revisit what you think about facts and how this revisiting can start to reframe (or deframe) your interpretative outlook. In doing so, help you invest your intellectual capital. So, do you agree with Socrates when he said that “The poets did not know what they were talking about!”? I can doubt about it but I can only believe it. After all, although some poets may think like Socrates, yet, some still think that he is the wisest of men.

Philippines produces and exports hundreds and thousands of doctors, nurses, midwives, and health care aides each year. The U.S., U.K., Canada, and the Middle East are among the top importers of said highly-skilled professionals. Yet, hospitals and other health care institutions in the country may not be enough to accommodate these ever growing number of professionals, and so apart from monetary reasons, many of them faced and still are facing a dilemma, and instead resort to finding a job somewhere else.

Thailand’s Bumrungrad Hospital, operated by Bumrungrad International, is to expand its Asian Hospital in Manila in order to meet the growing demand for private health care in the Philippines. It was estimated that the said hospital operator is to spend about PHP 318 million or THB 255 million for the said expansion. When completed, there would one more new house for our medical practitioners to stay in. The new expansion will involve a 14-storey tower housing more clinics, therapeutic services, and in-patient rooms. The future growth of the Asian Hospital would make it a center of medical services in the Philippines and the region.

Bumrungrad assumed management control of the Asian Hospital in 2005 and implemented new management systems, new clinical programmes, and cost control measures, and is now operating at near capacity.