B Sc Nursing at Kerala SF Nursing colleges

The Association of the Managements of Self Financing Nursing Colleges of Kerala (AMSFNCK), Lisie Hospital Campus, Ernakulam, Kochi-682018, has notified the admission to the 4 year B.Sc Nursing course for the year 2011-12, in the member colleges of the Association. Admissions will be made through Cetrnalised Counselling. Only one application need be submitted for applying to all colleges.

Prospectus and Application forms will be available from the member colleges of the Association from 10th June 2011, on payment of Rs.500/- by way of Demand Draft drawn in favour of ‘AMSFNCK’, payable at Ernakulam. Prospectus and Application can also be downloaded from the website www.amsfnck.in Applications can also be submitted online at the site. Filled Applications will be accepted till 25th June, 2011. More details can be had from the Prospectus.

Member Colleges:
1. Amala College of Nursing, Amala Nagar P.O., Thrissur
2. Bishop Benziger College of Nursing, P.B. No. 46, Sastri Junction, Kollam
3. Canossa College of Nursing, St. Martin De Porres Hospital, Cherukunnu, Kannur 4. Caritas College of Nursing, Caritas Hopsital, Thellakom P.O., Kottayam 5. Holy Cross College of Nursing, Kottiyam, Kollam
6. Holy Family College of Nursing, Holy Family Hospital, Muthalakkodam, Idukki
7. Jubilee Mission College of Nursing, Jubilee Mission Medical College, Thrissur
8. Lisie College of Nursing, Lisie Medical Institution, Kochi
9. Little Flower College of Nursing, Angamaly, Ernakualm
10. Lourdes College of Nursing, Sidhi Sadan, Chempumukku, Thrikkakkara, Kochi
11. Lourde College of Nursing, Lourde Hospital, Taliparamba, Kannur
12. Mar Sleeva College of Nursing, Cherpumkal P.O., Palai, Kottayam
13. Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church College of Nursing, Kolencherry
14. Nirmala College of Nursing, Nirmala Hospital, Marykunnu, Kozhikode
15. Pushpagiri College of Nursing, Tiruvalla
16. Samaritan College of Nursing, Pazhanganad, Kizhakkambalam, Ernakulam
17. San Joe College of Nursing, San Joe Hospital, Perumbavoor, Ernakulam
18. St. Gregorios College of Nursing, Parumala, Pathanamthitta District
19. St. James College of Nursing, St. James Hospital, Chalakudy-
20. St. John’s College of Nursing, St. John’s Hospital, Kattappana, Idukki

21. St. Joseph College of Nursing, St. Joseph Hospital, Anchal, Kollam.
22. St. Joseph’s College of Nursing, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Dharmagiri, Kothamangalam.
23. St. Thomas College of Nursing, St. Thomas Hospital, Chethipuzha, Changnacherry.
24. T.M.M. College of Nursing, Thiruvalla Medical Mission Hospital, Kaviyoor, Tiruvalla.
25. West Fort College of Nursing, PB No 16, MG Kavu PO, Pottore, Thrisuur.

ISAT-2011: Register for Counselling by June 9

Indian Institute of Space Science Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, has notified the counseling dates for admission to the Under Graduate B Tech Programmes at the Institute. Candidates who appear in the published rank list of ISAT-2011, the Admission test for B Tech Programmes at IIST, should register for counselling and exercise their options for branch of study in the order of preference.

The registration has to be completed on or before 9th June 2011. Only those students, who register for Counselling and indicate their preference, will be called for Counselling.

For Online registration, candidate has to click on the ISAT-2011 Online Registration for Counselling link at http://www.iist.ac.in/admission/isat2011and then click on the STUDENT LOGIN link available there. Candidate should login using the valid login credentials and select the options for branch of study from the list (Aerospace Engineering, Avionics or Physical Sciences) in the order of preference of the candidate. The same options cannot be repeated.

Candidates have to enter the percentage of marks obtained in 12th Standard (PCM only). Candidates who appear in the rank lists of General as well as any of the Reserved Categories (OBC/SC/ST/PD) are provided an Additional Option to select the registration category. The rank along with the category details are displayed in this section. Candidate can select either General or applicable reserved category or both in the registration category.

After successful registration, candidate can re-login and verify the details.Candidates can modify their option till the last date of online registration. They can also change their options at the time of Counselling, depending on the vacancies available. Online Registration alone does not guarantee admission in IIST.

Result of the First Counselling will be published on 10th June 2011.
First Counselling will be on 25th June 2011 ( General) and 26th June 2011 (OBC,SC,ST,PD) at Bangalore.
Subject to the availability of seats after First Counselling, list will be published for Second Counselling.
Result of Second Counselling will be published on 27th June 2011.
Second Counselling will be on 8th July 2011 (General) and 9th July 2011 (OBC,SC,ST,PD) at Thiruvananthapuram.

Candidates have to be physically present at the time of Counselling, fulfill all the eligibility criteria for admission and produce the necessary documents, to be offered admission. They have to be accompanied by one of the parents at the time of Counselling.Details regarding venue, timing and other counselling information will be published in the website later.

For details visit http://www.iist.ac.in/admission/isat2011

NASA’s Messenger fetches first orbital photo of Mercury

NASA's Messenger spacecraft, the first ever to enter the orbit of Mercury, has fetched its first photo, the project's website said.

The image, the first ever obtained from a spacecraft in orbit around Mercury, was taken as the spacecraft sailed high above the planet's south pole. It features portions of Mercury's surface not previously seen by spacecraft.

"The first images from orbit and the first measurements from Messenger's other payload instruments are only the opening trickle of the flood of new information that we can expect over the coming year," the website quoted Messenger Principal Investigator Sean Solomon as saying.

"The orbital exploration of the Solar System's innermost planet has begun."

The image was acquired as engineers checked how the spacecraft's systems are sustaining Mercury's harsh thermal environment after all equipment was turned on March 23. The scientific mission will begin on April 4.

"Instrument checkout has been proceeding according to plan," the scientist said.

It took the spacecraft more than six years to enter the orbit of Mercury, the least explored terrestrial planet of the inner Solar system.

To reach its destination point, the spacecraft, launched in 2004, covered more than 7.8 billion km. It followed a complicated route through the inner solar system, which included one flyby of Earth, two flybys of Venus, and three flybys of Mercury.

Mercury is the smallest and the densest planet among the four terrestrial planets. It also has the oldest surface and the largest daily variations in surface temperature.

Before the Messenger mission, only 45 per cent of the surface of Mercury had been photographed by a spacecraft. The previous mission was Mariner-10, launched in the 1970s.

WWW inventor favours mobiles to widen web access

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW), Thursday called for use of mobile technology to make the web available to a large number of people in countries with low levels of Internet penetration like India.

He underlined the need to teach people to build websites which work well on mobile phones and said the entrepreneurs can build an economy using this technology.

"This will also help in improving education, healthcare and economic status of people," he told reporters during the 20th International World Wide Web Conference here.

Berners-Lee, who is also the director of World Wide Web Foundation, which funds and coordinates efforts to further the potential of the web, said the foundation had also taken up some projects to teach people to build websites which work on mobile phones.

He said while India may have its share of problems, no country was perfect. He pointed out that even in the US and several so-called developed countries, there were many towns with either no Internet connection or no choice of Internet providers.

On the idea of voice-based search for people who are uneducated, he said the foundation was already working on the technology.

"Somebody has to provide a gateway running a programme which uses special web pages to do the dialogue. It is only the start to what could be an important section of web to get people who have no access to the web at the moment become part of the Internet society," he said.

Earlier, delivering the keynote address, Berners-Lee emphasised on the need to consider access to the Internet on par with any other civil right. Finland has already accepted access to the Internet as a human right.

The Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) said it was important to progress towards the idea of the Internet as a neutral media that was not controlled by large corporates or governments.

"Today, Egypt is communicating online with the people. The common man is in a position to give feedback to the government," he said, referring to the recent revolution in the north African country.

Berners-Lee said the issue of Internet governance and a mechanism to control international cyber crime was complicated.

"There is a problem of jurisdiction. There is a problem of coordination among law enforcement services across different countries. Which aspect of Internet should be governed by what sort of international organisation. Currently, there is a lot of discussion going on whether it should be done through countries or independently," he said.

Soviet Union lied about Gagarin space mission: Book

Officials of the erstwhile Soviet Union "lied" about the success of the historic flight into space that carried Yuri Gagarin by covering up the fact that he landed over 300 km away from where he was expected, says a new book.

The Soviet Union portrayed the mission - the first manned flight into space in 1961 - as a "glitch-free triumph".

However, a new book - titled "108 Minutes That Changed the World" - published on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Gagarin's flight says that scientists twice miscalculated where he would land.

That was why there was nobody there to meet Gagarin when he finally touched down, the Daily Telegraph reported.

"For many years Soviet literature claimed that Yuri Gagarin and his Vostok landing capsule had come down in the area it was supposed to," says the book.

"This information was far from the truth," it said, adding that space experts were expecting him to land almost 250 miles further south.

"So it turned out that nobody was waiting or looking for Yuri Gagarin. Therefore the first thing he had to do after landing was set off to look for people and communications so he could tell the leadership where he was."

The Soviets also lied about the manner of his landing. They said he had touched down inside the capsule itself when in fact he landed separately via parachute.

The reason the experts lied was because of rules that would have prevented them from officially registering the flight as a world record, says the book.

The book by Russian journalist Anton Pervushin published a letter Gagarin wrote to his family before the mission in which he thought about his own mortality, telling his wife not to "die of grief" if he never returned.

Gagarin said he hoped they would never have to read his words.

"But sometimes people slip on even ground and break their neck," he wrote.

"Something could also happen here. If it does I ask you Valyusha (his wife) not to die of grief. After all life is life and there is no guarantee for anybody that tomorrow a car might not end ones life," the letter said.

In 1957, Soviets had sent a dog named Laika into space only to see her die within hours from overheating.

Gagarin's wife finally got to read his letter in 1968 after his tragic death in a plane crash at the age of 34.