Thought for the day

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more
honorable but more useful than a life
spent doing nothing". 

-- George Bernard Shaw

KIPS kids have done it.

Congrats to our 10th grade first batch for exemplary results. (100%
with three A1)

100% FOR OUR BEGINNERS

Hearty Congrats

Hearty congrats to our 10th Grade students who brought laurels to our institution by a 100% win.

DEAR FRIENDS,


DR. JOSEPH MAR THOMA METROPOLITAN HAS KINDLY CONSENTED TO DEDICATE THE SENIOR SECONDARY BUILDING AT KARICKAM INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOL AT 10 A.M ON MONDAY 27TH MAY, 2013. SRI. KODIKKUNNIL SURESH, HON. CENTRAL MINISTER OF STATE FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT WILL INAUGURATE THE SENIOR SECONDARY DIVISION. WE WILL INAUGURATE OUR FIRST DECADE CELEBRATIONS ALSO ON THE OCCASION. NEWLY BUILT SCIENCE LABS WILL BE BLESSED.

ALL FRIENDS AND WELL WISHERS  ARE MOST CORDIALLY INVITED.

    DR. K. JACOB JOHN M.SC, B.ED, PH.D                                 (SENIOR PRINCIPAL)

   JIJI P MATHEW M.A(ENG), M.A (MAL), B.D, PGDTE          (PRINCIPAL)

India successfully tests  BrahMos supersonic 

cruise missile

India on Wednesday successfully test fired the 290-km range BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from the Navy's latest guided missile frigate INS Tarkash off the coast of Goa. The missile performed the high-level 'C' manoeuvre in the pre-determined flight path and successfully hit the target. The missile was launched from the Russian-built warship 

The warship, along with two other frigates of the class - INS Teg and INS Trikand, have been built as part of an over Rs 8,000-crore contract signed between India and Russia in July 2006. INS Teg was commissioned on April 27, 2012 and the commissioning of INS Trikand is expected soon. The weapons suite of INS Tarkash includes surface-to-air and surface-to-surface missile systems, 100 mm medium-range gun, close-in weapon system, torpedo tubes and anti-submarine rockets.  All the three ships will be equipped with 8 vertical- launched BrahMos missile systems as the prime strike weapon. The new missile frigates are designed to accomplish a wide range of maritime missions, primarily hunting down and destroying large surface ships and submarines. BrahMos officials said the vertical launch configuration of the supersonic missile enhances the stealth capabilities of the ship as the missiles are under the deck and not exposed.
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Man Booker International Prize goes to Lydia 

Davis

American writer Lydia Davis has been awarded the Man Booker International prize for her "achievement in fiction on the world stage".She beat nine other nominees to take home the £60,000 biennial award.Judge Prof Sir Christopher Ricks said Davis's stories "fling their lithe arms wide to embrace many a kind." The award recognises an author's continued creativity, development and overall contribution to literature, rather than a single work."There is vigilance to her stories, and great imaginative attention," Sir Christopher added.

Davis, the fifth recipient of the prize, is currently professor of creative writing at the University at Albany in New York state. Her work includes one novel, The End of the Story (1995), and seven story collections, including Break It Down (1986), Almost No Memory (1997), Samuel Johnson is Indignant (2002) and Varieties of Disturbance (2007). She has translated a number of French philosophy and literature works, most notably Swann's Way by Marcel Proust and Flaubert's Madame Bovary. A new collection, Can't and Won't, is due to be published next summer in the UK. The last recipient of the honour, 2011 winner Philip Roth, was also American. The other winners are Albanian writer Ismail Kadare (2005), Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe (2007) and Canadian short story writer Alice Munro (2009).

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White Tiger's colour due to change in a gene

Chinese scientists have acquired new insights into how white tigers get their colouration.The researchers have traced the cause to a single change in a gene known to drive pigmentation in a host of animals, including humans. White tigers are a rare variant of the customary orange Bengal sub-species. Today, they are found exclusively in captive programmes where the limited numbers are interbred to maintain the distinctive fur colour.
Shu-Jin Luo of Peking University and colleagues report in the journal Cell Biology how they investigated the genetics of a family of tigers living in Chimelong Safari Park in Panyu, Guangzhou Province. This ambush of tigers included both white and orange individuals. The study zeroed in on the pigment gene called SLC45A2, which has long been associated with the light colouration seen in some human populations, and in a range of other animals including horses, chickens, and fish. 
The team identified a small alteration in the white-tiger version of SLC45A2 that appears to inhibit the production of red and yellow pigments. This change has no effect on the generation of black pigment - explaining why the whites still have their characteristic dark stripes. A number of the white tigers found in  zoos have health issues, such as eyesight problems and some deformities.However, Luo and colleagues say these deficiencies are a consequence of inbreeding by humans and that the white coats are in no way indicative of a more general weakness in the Bengal variant.Establishing this fact means that re-introducing them to the wild under a carefully managed conservation programme might be worth considering.
"The last known free-ranging white tiger was shot in 1958, before which sporadic sightings were made in India," the researchers write. "Reasons for the extinction of wild white tigers were likely the same as those accounting for the dramatic decline in wild tigers in general: uncontrolled trophy hunting, habitat loss, and habitat fragmentation. "However, the fact that many white tigers captured or shot in the wild were mature adults suggests that a white tiger in the wild is able to survive without its fitness being substantially compromised."

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