Michael Molson, the chief technology officer of MEEZA, has said that Cloud Services, the provision of dynamically scalable Information Technology (IT) resources over the Internet, will eventually dominate the business IT infrastructure internationally.

During a presentation to information systems and computer science students at Carnegie Mellon University – Qatar, Molson urged the young Qataris to take the torch of technology into the future.

Molson said the students should lead the country towards greater prosperity, and adopt new technologies like Cloud Computing.

MEEZA, a Qatar-based provider of IT solutions and services, is a leading Cloud Services provider.

The development of Cloud Computing means that numerous organisations will no longer require in-house IT infrastructure, but they will instead outsource IT services to a service provider, which will meet their IT needs ‘via the cloud’, or over the Internet.

MEEZA has contributed greatly to the development of local businesses, which include Dohaland and Vodafone Qatar, and has just signed a contract to provide Silatech with IT services and solutions.

The partnership will guarantee that MEEZA will play a major role in the growth of small to medium-sized businesses in Qatar, a fundamental driver of economic development in the country’s 2030 vision.

As part of the presentation, Molson took the students through a usual working day at MEEZA.

The MEEZA official said IT is pivotal to the country’s dream of becoming a knowledge-based economy. He also revealed how Qatar’s future will be shaped by the predominance of digital information and services in everyday lives.

An addition of a high-tech facility to Lasik Surgery Clinic was announced by Asian Hospital and Medical Center during opening of the clinic, which performs laser vision correction.

The clinic’s development is one of the continuing efforts of the hospital to be recognised one of the most highly developed healthcare providers in the whole region of Asia-Pacific.

“With the opening of the Lasik Surgery Clinic, the Asian Hospital and Medical Center is again at the forefront of providing world-class medical service and cutting-edge facilities to patients here and abroad,” says Dr. Leonardo Mangubat, chairman Asian Hospital Department of Ophthalmology.

Lasik Surgery Clinic mainly focuses on refractive surgery (LASIK), a new surgical procedure that helps to permanently fix refractive errors including astigmatism, far-sightedness and near-sightedness.

Dr. Gabriel Juan Heredia says, “We take pride in offering the best laser technology at a very competitive price. Now, patients can have access to this technology and the expertise of highly trained eye surgeons, within the comforts of a modern hospital setting.”

Around 70% of United States eye centres strongly believed in the effectiveness of the 4th generation Excimer Laser, and now the laser will be available to Medical Centers and Asian Hospital patients together with other existing modern devices such as Iris Registration Technology, the Amadeus II Intelligent Mikrokeratome, the Orbscan, and the Wavescan Wavefront System.

Dr. Roderick Feleciano said the VISX Star S4 Excimer Laser ensures safe, fast, painless, and bloodless Epilasik and Lasik procedure.

_According to a recent government report, the US might suffer effects of the abrupt climate change, which is sooner than few have guessed.

It contends that the seas could increase quickly if polar ice melting continuously outruns new projections and an ongoing drought in the US might be the start of drying in the region. Accredited by the US Climate Change Science Program, the report was written by experts from the Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, US Geological Survey, and some leading institutions.

Several scientists are lifting the possibility that catastrophic, abrupt switches in the natural systems might stress the rise of global temperatures. The report utilises studies, which is not available in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). “This is the most up to date, as it includes research that came out after IPCC assembled its data”, said climatologist Edward Cook of Lamont-Doherty.

The researchers state that IPCC’s estimate of two feet of sea level increase by 2100 might be exceeded, because the recent data implies that the polar ice melting is increasing. There is evidence showing that the Antarctic ice cap is now losing an overall mass.

Cook states that the periodic drought in over 1,000 years is driven by natural cycles in the air circulation. “We have no smoking gun saying that humans are causing the current changes. But the past is a cautionary tale”, Cook state. “What this tells us is that the system has the ability to lock into periods of profound, long-lasting aridity.