Wednesday, 1 August 2012
Thursday, 26 July 2012
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Congratulation Mr. Hem Raj Bist
GöNeS would like to congratulate Mr. Hem Raj Bist for promoting to Gazetted II class officer in Department of Forest, Nepal. We wish him a very successful career ahead.
Monday, 19 March 2012
Farewell to KC family, Bist family and Ghimire/Upadhayaya family
intricate
Recalling the farewell program to three families by GöNeS. Farewell program was organised on (formal) 16th Dec 2011 and (informal) 29th Dec 2011.
We wish all them a very successful stay in Nepal.
Miss u all a lot !
Saturday, 3 December 2011
GöNeS joins hand to support for the treatment of poor girl
A girl from Bardia Nepal, 11 years old is severely ill with ITP blood disease. The family is very poor and her father is working in the Saudi Arab to solve mere hand to mouth problem. The 11 year old daughter is sick and needs to get the A+ blood every fortnightly. Though the blood is free in Nepal but she has to pay around 5€ per packet of the blood for the logistics.
Patient Sarita D.C. (photo courtesy: GöNeS alumnii- Prem Neupane)
Patient Sarita D.C. serving cups of tea to visitors (photo courtesy: GöNeS alumnii- Prem Neupane)
Needy family, mother and daughter
The family is very poor and does not hold the capacity to treat her. The daughter cries, mother cries and everybody starts to cry when they watch the video taken. Mother with heavy heart and tears rolling on her cheek, says whether her daughter would have been crushed by motor would be better. As she is seeing her daughter everyday dieing, it would be better to she her dead once. What a painful word coming from the mother because of poverty.
After watching this video appeal, GöNeS (Goettingen Nepalese Society) attempted to help her by collecting some funds. Till now, 245€ is confirmed. One of our member Dr. Ajaya Jung Kunwar is looking for some possibility to get the blood totally free of cost. Another member Prem Neupane visited the family this morning and provided some support to the family. Let's join our hand to support her and save her life.
The name and amount of donor collected by GöNeS
1. Rajendra K.C.and family (25€)
2. Bishal Ghimire and family (50€)
3. Surya Prakash Rai (Finland)-30€
4. Sambhu Charmakar and family (15€)
5. Binita Shahi (20€)
6. Dr. Roshan Devkota and family (60€)
7. Sarita Shrestha/Jeevan Shrestha (20€)
8. Sanziv Maharjan (15€)
9. Dr. Hari Datta Bhattarai (Korea)-20€
10. Sunita Ranabhat / Rajesh Malla (25€)
11. Sangharsha Saksham Mishra (Hetauda, presently at Goettingen)-10€
10. Sunita Ranabhat / Rajesh Malla (25€)
11. Sangharsha Saksham Mishra (Hetauda, presently at Goettingen)-10€
Total: 290€
Other friends have also assured their support. We will collect the amount and hand over to the family in first week of January at Kathmandu, Nepal.
Your each and every support will be great help towards saving her life. Wish to see you one step head of us.
Sunday, 13 November 2011
INVITATION to Ph. D. disputation
All dear friends, living in and around Goettingen, Germany are cordially invited in my Ph.D. disputation programme at the Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, Georg August University Goettingen, Germany. As the disputation is scheduled for tomorrow, 14th November, 2011, Monday from early morning 8:00 to 10:00.
You all are invited for the public defense and the parties thereafter. We will proceed to Ganzeliesel, the most kissed lady statue in the world around 12:15. And, the important party event will start after 6:00 pm at the department of forest genetics and forest tree breeding.
So all of you are invited on given time and venue:
Disputation:
Place: Dean's Office, Büsgenweg 5
Time: 8:00 to 10:00
Date: 14 November 2011
Ganzeliesel:
12:15 pm
Date: 14 November 2011
PartyI
Place: Busgenweg 2, room number 275
Date: 14 November 2011
Time: 18:00 onward
Party II
Place: ATW 24D/11
Date: 18 November 2011 (Friday)
Time: 17:00 onward
Thank you all,
Rajendra
Sunday, 23 October 2011
Teachers are the incarnation of the Gods
Prime minister Babu Ram Bhattarai and his school teacher meet in the USA. A heart touching event....
Sunday, 2 October 2011
Sunday, 25 September 2011
PM Baburam Bhattarai adresses UN general assembly
How do you grade his speech? I found it as the general statement and many places, while trying to be more democratic, freedom fighter, loses the benefit of the country. Specially I have very strong disagreement in the final sentence of his speech. And, also not happy to support Palestine to be rather new country. In the interest of Nepalese people, it used to be the nicest decision if we remain "NEUTRAL" in this issue. We expect your thoughtful comments and feed back.....
Friday, 23 September 2011
Scientists: Particles appear to travel faster than light
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- NEW: Physics professor: "It's very, very remarkable if it's true"
- The scientists' results indicate tiny particles traveled faster than the speed of light
- They want other researchers to examine their findings
- Neutrinos are subatomic particles, part of the elemental building blocks of the universe
(CNN) -- Scientists in Switzerland say an experiment appears to show that tiny particles traveled faster than the speed of light -- a result that would seem to defy the laws of nature.
The physicists say that neutrinos sent 730 kilometers (453.6 miles) underground between laboratories in Switzerland and Italy arrived a fraction of a second sooner than they should have, according to the speed of light.
The report was published Friday by a group of researchers working on the so-called Opera experiment, based at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland.
"This result comes as a complete surprise," report author Antonio Ereditato at the University of Bern, in Switzerland, said in a statement.
"After many months of studies and cross checks, we have not found any instrumental effect that could explain the result of the measurement."
The scientists on the Opera project would continue their research, he said, but "are also looking forward to independent measurements to fully assess the nature of this observation."
The finding would seem to challenge Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity, and the long-established law of physics that nothing can exceed the speed of light.
"It is very, very remarkable if it's true," said Professor Neville Harnew, head of particle physics at Oxford University.
"If this proves to be correct, then it will revolutionize physics as we know it."
He will be among scientists from around the world tuning into a webcast seminar held by CERN Friday afternoon, to discuss what Harnew describes as an "ultra-exciting" development that has come "totally out of the blue."
The Opera team's result is based on the observation of more than 15,000 bunches of neutrinos sent between CERN and the Gran Sasso Laboratory in Italy. A neutrino is an electrically neutral subatomic particle, an elemental building block of the universe.
The physicists say the measurements of the distance and the time involved were performed with great precision, to nanosecond accuracy.
And the results seemed to show the neutrinos travel "at a velocity 20 parts per million above the speed of light, nature's cosmic speed limit."
Sergio Bertolucci, research director at CERN, said the Opera team followed good scientific practice by throwing open their findings to other scientists.
"When an experiment finds an apparently unbelievable result and can find no artifact of the measurement to account for it, it's normal procedure to invite broader scrutiny," he said.
"If this measurement is confirmed, it might change our view of physics, but we need to be sure that there are no other, more mundane, explanations. That will require independent measurements."
Ereditato said more research is needed.
"The potential impact on science is too large to draw immediate conclusions or attempt physics interpretations," he said. "My first reaction is that the neutrino is still surprising us with its mysteries."
Harnew said the new finding "cannot currently fit in the standard theories at all" and would have to be confirmed by another experiment -- to ensure there is no subtle systemic error at play -- before a discovery can be claimed.
And he cautions that "neutrino measurements are extremely difficult experiments," making it hard to verify results independently.
Neutrinos, which are emitted during the process of radioactive decay, have only a tiny mass and usually pass through matter without interacting with anything else, making them very hard to detect.
CERN is one of only a handful of laboratories capable of running an experiment like the Opera project, Harnew said. Other possible sites could be J-Parc in Japan, home of the multinational T2K project, and Fermilab in Illinois.
It was only recently discovered that neutrinos, which come in three types, can switch from one type to another. If they can indeed travel faster than mass-less particles, like light, then these mysterious particles will have done even more to turn the world of physics on its head.
Monday, 15 August 2011
Sunday, 7 August 2011
Water on Mars: Nepalese scientist behind
Nepalese 21 years old, Lujendra Ojha, bachelor student at University of Arizona, USA were behind the epoch making discovery about the presence and measurement of water on Mars. The title of his publication is "Seasonal Flows on Warm Martian Slopes"
He has published his article on highest impact journal of science "SCIENCE", as a second author. At just the age of 21, he achieved a lot and made all of us proud. If opportunity is provided, Nepalese can prove their excellency in any field. Congrats to Lujendra Ojha and his parents.
Their article can be viewed at:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6043/740.full
Abstract of his article:
Water probably flowed across ancient Mars, but whether it ever exists as a liquid on the surface today remains debatable. Recurring slope lineae (RSL) are narrow (0.5 to 5 meters), relatively dark markings on steep (25° to 40°) slopes; repeat images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment show them to appear and incrementally grow during warm seasons and fade in cold seasons. They extend downslope from bedrock outcrops, often associated with small channels, and hundreds of them form in some rare locations. RSL appear and lengthen in the late southern spring and summer from 48°S to 32°S latitudes favoring equator-facing slopes, which are times and places with peak surface temperatures from ~250 to 300 kelvin. Liquid brines near the surface might explain this activity, but the exact mechanism and source of water are not understood.
To watch the movie of their findings:
Read more...
He has published his article on highest impact journal of science "SCIENCE", as a second author. At just the age of 21, he achieved a lot and made all of us proud. If opportunity is provided, Nepalese can prove their excellency in any field. Congrats to Lujendra Ojha and his parents.
Their article can be viewed at:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6043/740.full
Abstract of his article:
Water probably flowed across ancient Mars, but whether it ever exists as a liquid on the surface today remains debatable. Recurring slope lineae (RSL) are narrow (0.5 to 5 meters), relatively dark markings on steep (25° to 40°) slopes; repeat images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment show them to appear and incrementally grow during warm seasons and fade in cold seasons. They extend downslope from bedrock outcrops, often associated with small channels, and hundreds of them form in some rare locations. RSL appear and lengthen in the late southern spring and summer from 48°S to 32°S latitudes favoring equator-facing slopes, which are times and places with peak surface temperatures from ~250 to 300 kelvin. Liquid brines near the surface might explain this activity, but the exact mechanism and source of water are not understood.
To watch the movie of their findings:
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Nepal's stolen children: a CNN documentary by Demi Moore
You can not sleep without doing anything after watching these videos. The poor conditions of the country compel many nepalese women to be sold in to brothel in India. Maiti Nepal (Mother's home) is working selflessly to stop these social evils. And, Demi Moore, a very famous hollywood actress is supporthing her mission by establishing DNA foundation. WATCH OUT all four parts of the documentary, and you will be certainly find yourself to take immediate actions towards...
For part 1 http://youtu.be/T3S2DbCsrqI
For part 3 http://youtu.be/qu9gMQd6Y0I
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