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The popsickle stick book mark is an interesting and useful activity. Making innovative and creative book marks is a great fun. It is a good idea for presenting handmade gifts to our friends. I wish Brainfeed brings out more such interesting ideas. Navya Reddy, VII Std, Chalapathy School, Bodhan

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Now you can read as well as listen to your favourite article and also watch videos on education, career, sports, skill building, entertainment and a lot more. Brainfeed magazine started presenting a new concept – that is you can listen to your favourite article being read by experts while you go through the article. And also watch videos of your interest from the list of videos given in the magazine. This is how it works • A QR code sign will be given along with the article or the video. • All you need is a QR code scanner or QR code reader app on your Smartphone.

Prevent Reusing the Disposable Bottles We purchase water bottles, drink water and crush the bottle and throw it. The video ‘How to Prevent Reusing Disposable Bottles’ is really an eye opener to everyone. I was dumbfounded to see the people ﬁlling water in those used crushed bottles. The solution shown in the video, if followed by everyone, will really stop people from misusing the used bottles. T. Vishwasai, X Std, Ryan International School, Mumbai

Hot Wheels I have a hobby in collecting information about different types of cars. I was excited to see the article hot wheels and the details about the 5 best cars in the world. It was interesting to know the cost of each vehicle and the number of cars manufactured and sold. The lay out for the article is an added advantage for it. Vijaykrishnan, IX Std, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Chennai

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• Open the application, focus and hold the camera on the QR code of the article or the video you want to listen to or watch. • Then the QR code will lead you to the audio ﬁle of an educational expert, read the article for you or to the video that you wanted to watch. Don’t you think this is cool – so go on, read like an expert reader by just listening to an expert reader, read an article for you or watch a video to learn about an issue or topic or to learn a new skill.

Dear children, Brainfeed High is opening a new column exclusively for young student reporters. Interesting events/ activities/programmes/incidents happening in your school may be sent in lucid simple English not exceeding 150 words. The writing should be of students’ own and creative! The best selected report will be published in the Brainfeed High magazine and it could win the Best Journalist Award! So what are you waiting for? Hurry Up! Be the early bird! Students may email their reports with a photo to info@brainfeedhigh.com

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Editorial ccording to Julian calendar, July month is named after the Roman General, Julius Caesar. July brings copious rains and the sub-continent is green-carpeted! The ‘News’ page brings out useful and interesting education updates. ‘Bygone Luminaries’ highlights the adventurous explorers of the past; ‘Career’ exposes to the prospective career course ‘Pharm-D’.

‘Travel’ takes you to the enchanting land of Pharaohs and Pyramids. ‘Art & Culture’ briefs different folk dances of India. ’Sports’ is about Lithuanian sport – Ritinis – played on football field with hard rubber disc and curved bat. ‘Centre Spread’ brings you attractive and colourful ‘International Yoga Day’. ‘Space’ highlights Saffire-1, the Fire Experiment by NASA on controlling fire accidents in space. ‘Technology’ is about ‘Oombrella’ the smart and connected umbrella sending advance message about rain.

‘Cover Story’ is about Arjun Vajpai recounting his tough adventure of scaling Mount Makalu. HAM Radio – Amateur Radio Operators’ service to Science, Technology and Society will make you wonder in awe tracking things happening around you!’ Young Achiever’ introduces you to Neelanjana Jayant, the young JAZZ singer; Tanishq Abraham the youngest Indian- American graduate in Math and Physical Science; Samhita, a student who markets home-made chocolates through website. The picture story is about the childhood and fighter jet designer Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. ‘Big Question’ is about the working of touch-screen in cell phones and ATMs. ‘Expert Talks’ is about developing public speaking skills. Are you drinking enough water? Read the article on ‘Health’ to know the consequences. Happy Reading!

‘Food’ informs you about the world’s longest pizza made at Caracciolo sea front Naples – a Guinness Record! ‘Language Study’ brings you vocabulary of interrogative adverbs in Deutsch. ‘Science’ is about ‘Amazing Bubble’ – a bubble inside a bubble!

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Calendar 01

Neptune‛s moon S/2004 N 1 was discovered. – 2013 Doctor’s Day

Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose was arrested and detained in Calcutta. - 1940

Karl Benz officially unveiled the Benz Patent Motorwagen: The first purpose-built automobile. - 1886

04 NASA‛s Pathfinder space probe landed on the surface of Mars. - 1997

World UFO Day

Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so. - 1957

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The Andhra Pradesh High Court was established. - 1954

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The Solomon Islands became independent from the United Kingdom. - 1978

AT A GLANCE IN YESTER YEARS! 09 Johnny Weissmuller

swam the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking the world swimming record and the ‘minute barrier‛. – 1922

Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program. - 2011

America‛s first space station, Skylab, was destroyed as it reentered the Earth‛s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean. - 1979

Ranjit Singh conquered Lahore and became Maharaja of the Punjab (Sikh Empire). - 1799

World Population Day

A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, caused a geomagnetic storm on Earth. - 2000

The world‛s first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City,US. - 1935

The Mozilla Foundation was i established as a California not-for-profit corporation dedicated to the public benefit. - 2003

Willis Carrier created the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York. - 1902

World Day For International Justice

The opening ceremony for the 2015 Pan American Games took place in Toronto. - 2015

The British airship R34 landed in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight. - 1919

Nadia Comaneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics. - 1976 International Nelson Mandela Day

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The first line of the Paris Métro opened for operation. - 1900

Sri Lanka elected Sirimavo Bandaranaike as the Prime Minister, the world‛s first elected female head of government. – 1960

Ram Baran Yadav was declared the first president of Nepal. – 2008

Comet Hale– Bopp was discovered; it became visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later. – 1995

23 The National Flag of India was adopted in its present form. - 1947

24 Mr. Manmohan Singh presented his budget speech to the Indian Parliament which led to economic liberalisation in India. - 1991 26 Walt Disney‛s 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, was premiered in London. - 1951 Kargil Victory Day

The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph was successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone between Euston and Camden Town in London. – 1837

Former President of India Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam died while giving a lecture in IIM, Shillong due to Cardiac arrest.2015

Activity Do you know what are the important days of this month….Yes…. have a look…. and acquire knowledge? Activity for students Now, as you have gone through the important days of this month, select any one topic, perform it in the assembly, or make any activity related to it. Send • Photographs • PPT or • Video related to the activity to info@brainfeedhigh.com on or before 15th of every month.

Central Reserve Police Force Foundation Day

Australian Ian Thorpe became the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championships. - 2001 World Hepatitis Day

Astronomers announced their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris. - 2005

World Tiger Day

The best entry will grab the opportunity to

Apollo 15 astronauts became the first to ride in a lunar rover. - 1971

The Trans-Canada Highway, the largest national highway in the world, was officially opened. - 1962

win a prize.

Note: Teachers can guide the students to select the topic for their performance.

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NEWS Dipanshu Jindal Tops JEE (Main)

BSE declared the ranks for JEE Mains on June 23, 2016. 18 year old; Dipanshu Jindal topped JEE (Main). With an All-India Rank of 53 in the JEE (Advanced), he was headed to one of the Indian Institutes of Technology anyway. But the ‘AIR 1’ “is good for the resume”, reasons Jindal. Jindal, a Despite the student of SD long hours of Public School, study, Jindal Pitampura, hopes to study isn’t all work and no play. “I computer play cricket and science at football. And I IIT Delhi. He spend four-ﬁve topped his hours daily on school with an social media. aggregate of My parents used 98.6% in the Class 12 CBSE to scold me but exams, scoring it was important too,” he says. full marks in physics and mathematics. He thanks his father, a mathematics tutor, for his ﬁrm grounding in the subject. “He shaped me. He taught me in my initial years,” he says.

Practice Yoga Everyday

he 1st “National Yoga Olympiad” was organized by the NCERT, where over 300 students from 21 states including differently abled displayed various yogasanas. Speaking on this occasion, Union HRD Minister Ms Smriti Irani said that parents and teachers should spend time with children practising yoga. She urged school children to practice yoga, as it improves motor skills and also makes hand-eye coordination better.

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welve students from Class X to XII of Delhi Public School, RK Puram, have been selected to participate in the finals of the prestigious International Space Settlement Design competition (ISSDC) at NASA. The names of these students were finalised, after they won the Asian regional round against teams from countries including Pakistan, China, Japan and Korea. These students were invited by Mr. Jitendra Singh, the Union Minister of State for Atomic Energy and Space for an interactive session. Mr. Singh said they not only deserve encouragement, but, their success story should be propagated among school children across the country, so that those with hidden talent for space experimentation are able to realize their passion. He also advised that school children should be aware of the various options available across the world for developing their scientific skills.

http:// www.brainfeedhigh.com/ video-July-1 Wave Star – Convert Kinetic Wave power into Electricity

http:// www.brainfeedhigh.com/ video-july-2 Nick names for 35 cities

http:// www.brainfeedhigh.com/ video-july-3 How to tell a story (Past Events) in English?

http:// www.brainfeedhigh.com/ video-july-4 The Most Beautiful Child - Akbar Birbal Stories

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Current Affairs Great Britain Exits from European Union

People are “Terrorised”

he recent news of the Islamic State (IS) attacks is creating terror through the news channels in people’s lives. People throughout the world are seeing dark days.

A referendum was held on June 23 to decide whether the United Kingdom should leave or remain in the European Union. The turn out to the referendum was 71.8% and at the end those who wanted to leave European Union won by 52% against those wished to remain in the European Union by 48%

The recent It is the holy month of Ramzan, attacks in and the situation has left the Dhaka and people to stay indoors. A few Central days ago, Hyderabad police Baghdad, killing arrested some suspects and during interrogations found that about 40 and the suspects were looking for 143 people hideouts nearby Hyderabad for respectively, have left people planting the bombs for attacking meticulously. Timely move by the feel more alert police has saved many lives. insecure.

Do you Know? PEPPER CAN SPEAK

19 LANGUAGES! IT IS NOT A SPICE, but something spicy news to o know about! Designed by Belgian pper, Company Zora Bots, Pepper, a robot costing 23,000 pounds can speak 19 different languages! d Pepper, who has started work at Ostend hospitall AZ Damiaan as a receptionist introduces visitors to the hospital, provides information and guides visitors and patients to the correct ﬂoor and room. It can work up to 20 hours on its own when it is fully g? charged. Isn’t it amazing?

The European Union (EU) is an economic and political partnership involving 28 European countries. This is to foster economic cooperation and allowed both people and goods to move freely in the member countries. European Union has its own currency called ‘Euro’. ‘Brexit’ is the short form of Britain’s exit from the European Union – merging ‘Br’ itain and ‘Exit’.

‘GOOD MORNING’ E Every morning we greet e each other at home, sc school, ofﬁce or any other place. Why do we o do this? Why should we do this? We use ‘good morning’ as part of routine in order to feel good and positive, so that it helps us through the day.

Do you know the meaning of “GOOD MORNING”?

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Get up.

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Meditate.

Open your heart. Open your mind. Dedicate your day to God.

Optimise your resources. Rebuke all negative thoughts. Never underestimate your potential.

I Inspire someone. N Never lose faith. G Go out with joy and conﬁdence.

So friends, don’t hesitate to wish your loved ones in the mo morning. Be energetic and make your morning ﬁlled with GOO GOODNESS at home, school and work. july 16

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Art & Culture

Karuna Raj

FOLK DANCES

OF INDIA ndia, a well deﬁned geographical entity with rich diverse natural art and culture, reﬂects her diversity in different dance forms. All these dances are expressions of joy and gratitude. The onset of monsoon, harvest festival, Dassehra, Diwali, Ganapathi festival, wedding, or any happy occasion are celebrated with pomp and gaiety. Folk dances are off-shoots of these occasions. Both men and women perform these dances. The following are some of these dance forms:

BIHU DANCE

BHANGRA DANCE

Bihu dance of Assam is performed during Bihu festival. It is a joyous, energetic and rhythmic dance by both men and women with brisk steps, rapid hand movements and rhythmic swaying of the hips. They wear traditional clothing - dhoti,gamocha and chadar mekhala.

Bhangra of Punjab is generally performed during the vaisakhi festival to celebrate the good harvest with great pomp and fervour. It’s energetic, lively and equally vivacious. Bhangra was started by farmers of Punjab in the ﬁfteenth century to celebrate good harvest but now it is performed on all occasions all over the world.

DANDIYA Dandiya raas of Gujarat is performed during Navaratri festival to pay homage to nine incarnations of Goddess Durga. Dandiya is performed in the nights for nine days in colourful attire, with coloured sticks. In two circles one moving clockwise and the other anti-clockwise with fast pace. Earlier it was performed only on traditional and devotional songs but now the modern version of pop music is also played.

KOLI DANCE The Koli dance of fisher folk of coastal Maharashtra devoted to sea god for better catch and protection. The dance reflects the distinct identity and life style of the fisher folk. It helps unwind a day’s hard work and forget the hardships of their occupation. The dancers form a single line or in pairs showing the movements of rowing the boats, waves and catching fish. Women wear green sarees draped to their knees and men wear lungi around their waist in a triangular shape.

KAIKOTTIKALI Kaikottikali of Kerala is an extremely popular and elegant dance, mainly performed on the occasion of Onam. Young and old women perform with ease and elan in typical traditional Kerala style, gold- bordered traditional two-piece cloth called Mundu and Neriyattu. The dance is performed in great co-ordination of clapping in unison sometimes moving clockwise and sometime anticlockwise, bending sideways, moving around intricatelydecorated ﬂower rangoli with a traditional brass lamp placed in the centre.Rythmic movements are important than the mudra. Songs are sung in praise of king Mahabali.

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Bygone Luminaries Sir Edmund Percival Hillary

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen Born: July 16, 1872 Died: June 18, 1928 mundsen was a Norwegian and one of the greatest figures in the field of polar exploration. Amundsen was among the key expedition leaders Douglas Mawson, Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton. Amundsen was also the first to cross the Arctic by air.

Born: July 20, 1919 Died: January 11, 2008

In 1897 he sailed as ﬁrst mate on the Balgica with a crew of six on his 47-ton sloop Gjoa. Amundsen began his mission to sail through the Northwest Passage around the northern Canadian coast and concluded in Nome, Alaska. Amundsen’s next plan to drift across

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xplorer of 20th Century, Mountaineer and Philanthropist, Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer, Tenzing Norgay became the ﬁrst climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953.

Amundsen disappeared with ﬁve crew on 18 June 1928 while ﬂying on a rescue mission in the Arctic. His team included Norwegian pilot Leif Dietrichson, French pilot René Guilbaud, and three more Frenchmen. They were seeking missing members of Nobile’s crew, whose new airship Italia had crashed while returning from the North Pole. the North Pole on Fram headed for the South Pole instead of the North. Fram sailed directly from Madeira Islands to the Bay of Whales, Antarctica along the Ross Sea on January 25, 1912. In 1928, while taking part in a rescue mission for the Airship Italia, the plane he was in disappeared.

Hillary became interested in mountaineering while in school. In his ﬁrst major climb in 1939, reached the summit of Mount Ollivier. He served in the Royal New Zealand Air Force as a navigator during World War II. Hillary had been part of the British reconnaissance expedition to the mountain in 1951. As part of the Commonwealth TransAntarctica Expedition, he reached the South Pole overland in 1958. He subsequently reached

George and Alex Hillary with their father Peter alongside a statue of their famous grandfather Sir Edmund Hillary

the North Pole, making him the first person to reach both poles and summit Everest. You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals. Devoted to helping the Sherpa people, Hillary founded the Himalaya Trust which built schools, hospitals and transportation hubs in Nepal. He served as New Zealand’s High Commissioner to Nepal, India and Bangladesh from 1985 to 1988. New Zealand’s five dollar currency note features Hillary’s image. Edmund Hillary was knighted in 1953 by the Queen and Government of India conferred on him Padma Vibhushan in 2008 posthumously. july 16

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Cover Story

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Arjun Vajpai, is the FIRST INDIAN to have scaled Four Mountains higher than 8,000 metres.

Mountaineer

with a Mission

t is rightly said that a person with true determination will always achieve success in life. The same is the case with the India’s most active mountaineer. An adventure sports enthusiast right from his childhood, a motivational speaker and a nature lover, Arjun Vajpai, became the third youngest Indian to climb Mount Everest at the age of 16 on May 22, 2010. This enthusiast mountaineer continued

his expedition scaling different mountains achieving records. He attributes the Everest climb to his own dream, the drive of his father and encouragement of an experienced mountaineer and family friend. Arjun says, “I went on a mountain climbing trip when I was 10 during a vacation to the hilly outback of Pune in Western India to meet my grandmother.” An hour-long trek up a small

mountain and the sight of the sunset from the top made him wonder about gazing setting sun from the summit of Mount Everest. During his attempt to Tibet’s Mount Cho Oyu in 2012, Arjun’s left hand and leg paralysed due to bad weather but his determination towards his challenges led him to speedy recovery. On May 23, 2016, in his fourth attempt, he became the youngest Indian to scale Mount Makalu, the ﬁfth highest mountain in the world and the sixth most difﬁcult to scale with a death toll twice that of Mount Everest. He started the expedition on April 6, 2016 and succeeded to reach the peak on May 23, 2016. The Chief Minister of UP Mr. Akhilesh Yadav, congratulated him for becoming the youngest Indian to scale Mt Makalu, one

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Arjun aims to become THE FIRST INDIAN to complete the grand slam of climbing all the

14 highest mountains in the

world. Till now he has succeeded in climbing four mountains. He is still motivated training and hungry to for students scale more and employees peaks. outdoors. The

of the world’s toughest peaks. He assured Arjun that he would take steps to encourage adventure sports in the state and provide support to the mountaineers.

Arjun leads many philanthropic campaigns. Apart from this he has also conducted relief work in Uttarakhand ﬂoods and Nepal earthquakes. Arjun’s brainchild, “Find Your Everest” is a character- building

challenges in the programme focus on developing strong ethics, team spirit, communication and analytical skills. A lover of nature he takes lots of efforts to train the young generation to conserve the nature. Brainfeed interacted with Arjun Vajpai and he has shared his bag full of experience to the enthusiastic readers. Read on....

Arjun's role model is Reinhold Messner, the Italian who became the ﬁrst to climb all the 14 highest peaks in the world.

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Cover Story Congratulations on your achievements. Please highlight your achievements as a mountaineer. I climbed Mount Everest and became the youngest climber in the world at age 16. In a year gap I climbed, the world’s 4th highest mountain Mount Lhotse and later on the youngest in the world to climb Mt Manaslu. I had three attempts to Mount Makalu, but couldn’t reach the peak. It was during my fourth attempt I succeeded to reach Mount Makalu.

spread more and more awareness about climate change and I want to motivate as many as individuals I can for this cause, to curb this. This is not only the problem of our generation but the problem of coming generation too. I have collected lots of data related to climate change. It is quite a radical situation about what will happen in the next 30 years. Now, I invite the young enthusiastic generation all over India to come and join me in August 2016, in this expedition, so that they will come to know about what is their effect of their everyday life on Mother Nature. A team of mountaineers went to Mt. Makalu. What was your experience with them and what did you learn from them?

You succeeded climbing Mt. Makalu in your 4th attempt. How was it different from Mt. Everest? Makalu is world’s ﬁfth highest mountain and it is little shorter than Everest. There is not so much difference (about 500-600 feet), but the success rate of climbing Makalu is quite less. Many people have lost their lives climbing Makalu. Since it is challenging to climb, it is quite difﬁcult to reach Makalu. The theme for your expedition was ‘Climb for Climate Change.’ What are your achievements from this expedition? From the time, I climbed Mt Everest, from that time, ‘Climb for Climate Change’ has come into my mind. When I went to Nepal, I saw glaciers melting, and then I learnt how my actions get resulting in changes. I want to

I was very lucky to climb with certain climbers. Out of them Ferran Latorre from Catalonia has climbed 12 out of 14 highest mountains in the world, from whom I learnt how to manage expeditions. I had a good time with Hans Wenzl from Austria, who has a good planning. They all are great climbers; the portant thing that most important I learnt was they have a clear on connection between nd, their mind, their thought process and theirr actor. verbal factor. ause It is because am mates, of my team n after 15-20 that even hours of climbing, I felt nd better. It is better and not the mountain which we ed but ourselves. conquered e do whatever we When we want to do from our heart, we enjoyy doing it and that he result. shows the

What are the difﬁculties a mountaineer face during the expedition and how do they overcome it? When you are climbing mountains above 25,000 feet, there is water seeping into your lungs, your brain cells are dying, and your stomach is not well. As you climb up the oxygen reduces, when your body doesn’t get adequate amount of oxygen, you feel sick all the time. It is very difﬁcult at -60°to -70°. We break up the journey up to the upper layer and slowly we reach the peak. Even if you are sick, the weather is bad, you are unable to walk, and then also you have to carry on. Keeping yourself motivated is required. One has to be very strong to achieve it with all the sufferings. Natural disaster like avalanches and climatic changes are a great discomfort for a mountaineer. Did you face any of these situations in your expedition?

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You can’t say at what time climate change and avalanches occur. We did face lots of avalanches in Makalu but thankfully we didn’t come into one of them. It was a great experience facing these situations. You have observed that the two glacial lakes on the way to Mt. Makalu have completely dried up. What could be the reason for it? How can we overcome these types of situations in the future? The glacial lakes are unnamed and we call them TARN. The disappearance of the whole lake is an alarming situation. I have seen how the glaciers are getting warmer and warmer because of the direct result of our action. We are pumping out triple COC levels which the earth can’t deal. The climate change is due to lots of industrialization and so many vehicles around. We have to protect our nature and study the change in our lifestyle. To overcome this we have started outdoor training sessions where the children will come to the touch with nature. I am trying to bring changes in the young generation and educate them about conserving nature. That is the goal in my life. You said that Sherpas are the real backbone and the true heroes behind your success. Please comment. Sherpas are the special kind of tribes in the mountains and their body is able to perform much better at the higher altitudes. Without them our expedition wouldn’t be successful as they help us a lot. They take charge of the situation and help us in many ways. They have a great physical

appearance and are very good at heart and lead a satisfactory life. Sponsors have been a great support for your expedition. What kind of support did you seek from the sponsors? What support did you get from the Chief Minister of UP, Mr. Akhilesh Yadav? Sponsors help us in hiring sherpas, porters who travel with us till the base camp and also providing us lot of logistics and connectivity like internet and other technologies. Mr.Akhilesh Yadav, himself is an adventurer. He has been supporting us for a long time. The UP government has supported a lot for this expedition so that the youngsters of UP can also know about the changes happening in the nature.

I have seen how the glaciers are getting warmer and warmer because of the direct result of our action. We are pumping out triple COC levels which the earth can’t deal. The climate change is due to lots of industrialization and so many vehicles around. We have to protect our nature and study the change in our lifestyle.

Do you have any plans to conduct training for children in mountaineering? If so what interests should an aspiring mountaineer have? What could be the age to start with the training? I am already working on it. I and my team conduct training programmes in schools. Apart from that we have an online programme called 'ClimbwithArjun'. We select people across India and take them along with us to the mountain. In UP, I want to train young people for disaster management, personality development and develop lots of skills. We are going to start National Sports Climbing in Noida. Interested kids can be trained so that they can be an explorer and creative. There is no age limit for adventure. The kind of activity which you will be involved will vary according to the age. I have a team of 120 highly trained professionals who help me to carry out this course. We are also designing a curriculum which can be introduced along with academic curriculum. At a very young age, you have many achievements. What are your future plans? My aim is to complete the grand slam of mountaineering climbing the 14 mountains. It will take another 6-7 years to climb remaining 10 mountains. There are 14 mountains in the world which goes above the altitude of 8,000 m high. I want to become the 1st Indian to complete the grand slam of mountaineering. What message would you like to give to Brainfeed readers? Dream big and Dare to chase it! Climate change is a very important factor. Start taking action to protect our Mother Nature. july 16

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Expert Talks

Mr. K.V. Pradeep Actor, Motivational Speaker

We will get conﬁdence only if we know the subject; time allocated, target audience and are prepared. At the outset, one must select a subject that suits oneself, and importantly that is appropriate to the time/context, audience and occasion. We ought to prepare by accumulating knowledge on the subject; and according to the available time, we need to classify the subject matter into three stages of priority namely:

EFFECTIVE

PUBLIC SPEAKING

i) I must say;

Many of us have a lot of thoughts. In fact we articulate them in private conversations, but fail to deliver when we appear on a stage/dais.

ii) I shall say; and iii) Nice if I say. Furthermore, the speech or talk ought to be divided into three parts as follows: 1. Opening 2. Content 3. Closing

ublic speaking is an art. Speakers who can articulate their thoughts in a stipulated time, in front of audience are admired, appreciated and followed.

Many of us have a lot of thoughts. In fact we articulate them in private conversations, but fail to deliver when we appear on a stage/dais. We call this as stage fear or stage fright. Why do we have to fear the stage at all? Best Speakers most often transform themselves as Best leaders. In this context let us now look at the deﬁnition of a public speaker. Public speaking (sometimes termed oratory or oration) is the process or act of performing a verbal presentation (a speech), focused around an individual directly speaking to a live audience in a structured and deliberate manner, in order to inform, inﬂuence, or entertain.

Let’s know the ways to conquer stage fear: Stage Fear • Realise you are not alone • Experience reduces tension • Appear more conﬁdent than you feel • Let your nervous sense have an outlet • Involve in what you say • Smile and take a deep breath • Energy level is the key Qualities of a good SPEAKER • Self conﬁdence • Passion • Easily understood • Accomplish the opportunity • King like vocabulary • Excellent expressions • Righteous thinking

We can compare the composition of any speech to that of a sandwich. The upper bread slice is the Opening and the lower bread slice is the Closing, while the stufﬁng is the Content. Just as the stufﬁng in a sandwich can be made of cheese, vegetables, meat, etc. the Content of the speech can delve on any subject. Of the total duration, one must assign 10% of the available time each to both the Opening as well as the Closing, and allocate the remaining 80% time for the actual subject matter or Content. To be continued

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YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR

Keerthi Chaitanya

Ms. Samhita, XII Std. from Oakridge International School, Hyderabad, is passionate about chocolates. She makes amazing chocolates at home. Recently she started her own company and sells homemade chocolates online through her website www.chocolatebox.in

World World

Day Ms. Samhita

What is the nutritional value of a chocolate? If you’re a dark chocolate lover, perhaps you’re addicted to the sweet treat’s nutritional beneﬁts. Eating dark chocolate provides you with energy, fat, minerals and antioxidants to help maintain your overall health. These beneﬁts come from the cocoa beans, which are roasted, ground and mixed with cocoa butter and sugar to form a chocolate bar. Check out the percentage of cocoa that your chosen chocolate contains; it’s listed on the wrapper. Keep in mind that the higher the number, the darker the chocolate. Is there any difference between white and dark chocolates? Dark chocolate and white chocolate both contain cocoa butter and are eaten as dessert and confectionery. Chocolate is derived from the bean of cocao plant which breaks down into chocolate liquor, cocoa butter and cocoa powder. Dark chocolate is produced by adding cocoa butter to sugar and cocoa powder. Unlike milk chocolate, dark chocolate does not contain any solids. White chocolate contains only cocoa butter, sugar and

milk solids and no chocolate liquor or cocoa powder. So technically, white chocolate is not really chocolate at all. Which chocolates do children like the most? As a teenager, I personally prefer milk chocolate because it tastes the best and doesn’t have that nasty bitter taste like dark chocolate. Children prefer milk chocolate too since milk chocolate is the most abundantly available chocolate bars in the stores. All the famous brands like dairy milk nestle and many more produce milk chocolate mostly.

Chocolate is derived from the bean of

COCAO PLANT

Chocolate Maker

Does eating chocolates affect children’s health? The health effects of chocolate are the possible positive and negative effects on health of eating chocolate. Unconstrained consumption of large quantities of any energyrich food, such as chocolate, without a corresponding increase in activity, increases the risk of obesity. Raw chocolate is high in cocoa butter, a fat removed during chocolate reﬁning, then added back in varying proportions during manufacturing. Manufacturers may add other fats, sugars, and powdered milk as well. It is believed that eating chocolates affects teeth in children.Is it true? Chocolate has a good amount of antioxidants that inhibit the proliferation of a certain bacteria that causes tooth decay. This bacteria produces acids that affect the enamel in our teeth. The antioxidants in chocolate T counter the effects of this acid coun production. prod

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Amazing Facts The African Boabab tree is known as the ‘upside down tree‛ because of its weird shape. The trunks often have a circumference of as much as 130 ft.

The country with the largest coastline in the world is Canada (152,100 miles) and Monaco has the shortest coastline (3.5 miles).

The world‛s first skyscraper was the 10-storey Home Insurance Office, built in Chicago in 1885.

Yellowstone in USA is the world‛s first national park. It was dedicated in 1872.

The average ear of a corn has eighthundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.

The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.

5. After 24 hours, on a plane surface, spread some bubble solution.

Science

Amazing

BUBBLES e feel excited while blowing bubbles. These bubbles are visible for some time and later on disappear. Have you ever tried to blow a bubble inside a bubble? Try this experiment and have fun. Materials required: Warm water Sugar Liquid dish soap Pipette or plastic straw

Instructions: 1. Pour 240 ml of warm water in a jar. 2. Add a tablespoon of granulated sugar to it. 3. Then add 2 tablespoons of liquid dish soap. Stir it gently and allow it to stay for 24 hours. 4. Cut 1 cm from the bulb end of the pipette.

6. Now, dip the cut end of the pipette in the soap solution. With the other end blow a large bubble on the moistened surface. 7. Again dip the pipette in the solution, and now this time gently push it inside the ﬁrst bubble and blow a second bubble. 8. Repeat the procedure and have fun. Principle: Bubbles form because of water’s reduced surface tension due to the soap. Hydrogen atoms in a

water molecule are attracted to oxygen atoms in other water molecules. Soap and sugar slows evaporation of water molecules, so bubbles can last longer. Regular bubbles burst when they come in contact with dirt and gravity whereas a sugar bubble will last a long on a surface, if the surface is free of dust particles. When you blow a bubble inside a bubble, the outer bubble expands a little. When you blow the inner bubble, the volume of the air in the outer bubble is ﬁxed and becomes compressed by the growing inner bubble.

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Innovation

DSAC

t is true, that space exploration is a very expensive investment, but think of the countless inventions and emotions that these amazing missions brought us. Today the inventions are still going on and here is one of them.

DSAC (Deep Space Atomic Clock) is a small atomic clock that could be used as part of a spacecraft navigation system. It will improve accuracy and enable new modes of navigation. The technology, which is designed to improve navigation of spacecraft to distant destinations and enable collection of more data with better precision, is 50 times more accurate than today’s best navigation clocks. NASA is preparing to ﬂy a Deep Space Atomic Clock demonstration that will revolutionize the way by enabling a spacecraft to calculate its own timing and navigation data in real time. This one-way navigation technology would improve upon the current two-way

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• It will be suitable for operations in the solar system well beyond Earth orbit.

Key For Future Space Exploration

system in which information is sent to Earth, requiring a ground team to calculate timing and navigation and then transmitting it back to the spacecraft, thus expanding the network’s capacity without adding any new antennas or their associated costs.

Dr. Todd Ely, Principal Investigator for NASA’s DSAC Technology Demonstration Mission said, “The DSAC technology doesn’t really consume anything other than power. All these features together mean we can develop a clock

• Places like Mars are “crowded” with many spacecrafts. With one-way tracking, the Deep Space Network could support many spacecraft simultaneously without expanding the network. that’s suitable for very long duration space missions.” • The clock is a miniature mercury-ion atomic device. • DSAC will deliver the same stability and accuracy like ground-based atomic clocks for spacecraft exploring the solar system. july 16

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• Spacecraft carrying DSAC would not need to turn signals around to get two-way tracking. Instead, the spacecraft could send the tracking signal to the Earth station or it could receive the signal sent by the Earth station and make the tracking measurement on board.

• Together with the DSAC Demonstration Unit, an ultra stable quartz oscillator and a GPS receiver with antenna will enter low altitude Earth orbit once launched via a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in early 2017. high

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KUDOS

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Tanishq Abraham

An Indian American Child Prodigy Born in June 2003, in Sacramento, California, USA, Tanishq Abraham, an Indian American child prodigy, received his graduate certiﬁcate on May 20, 2015, with degrees in Mathematics and Physical Sciences, General Science and Foreign Language Studies with a Grade Point Average score of 4.0. He was congratulated by the President of USA Barack Obama after he became the youngest ever to graduate from a US college. He has three community college degrees and has been accepted to two University of California campuses.

Now at the age of 12, he will be a junior transfer student when he enrolls in either UC Davis or UC Santa Cruz. Age wise achievement of Tanishq.

4 5

years Became a member of Mensa becoming the youngest South Asian to join Mensa.

years Took Maths course offered by Standard University’s Education Programme for Gifted Youth and completed the course within a span of 6 months.

years Took online high school and college courses in Chemistry, Paleontology, Biology and Geology.

years Enrolled for Geology and Astronomy courses in the American River College and cleared the courses with ‘A’ grades.

8 9

years Became a member of the venerable Liberal Arts and Science Institution Phi Theta Kappa.

years 1. He was the youngest person to speak and present a poster at one of NASA’s conferences. 2. He was invited to speak at a TEDx conclave in California.

Enthusiastic Tanishq says, “I think I’ll be 18 when I get my MD (medical degree).”

3. He became the founding vice-president in an astronomy club at his college for the terms 2012-14.

years 1. He was elected as vice president of communications for 2013-14. 2. Graduated from high school.

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Graduated from the American River College in Sacramento, California.

Apart from all these achievements, Tanishq enjoys playing chess, table tennis and tennis. He loves to swim and is passionate about American Soccer, and when time permits, he enjoys watching his favorite programs on television. In future he aspires to become a doctor, a medical researcher, a Nobel Prize Winner and President of the United States of America. For young Tanishq, sky is the limit and his journey has just begun.

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KUDOS

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erforming at the prestigious Carnegie Hall, New York, is a dream for any musician. Nilanjanaa Jayant, class VIII of The Samhita Academy, Bengaluru, is all set to live this dream. The young Jazz singer has put India to greater heights by showcasing her talent. The honour follows her victory at the Golden Voices of America competition. Golden Voices of America is an international competition, open to all countries for vocalists of different age groups.

Singing

Sensation

Nilanjana Jayant

My mother has been the driving force behind my achievement as she is the one who found out about this competition and encouraged me to apply. My teachers have given me extensive vocal training. How were you drawn to the Western Classic? Who was your inspiration?

So that is a very big compliment. How do you manage both studies and music practice? Sometimes it is a bit of a juggle when I have exams. But otherwise I have ﬁxed music practice time and I try to stick to it as much as possible. You receive training

Vocalists compete on this global platform and the winners get to perform at the Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall and at Bruno Walter Auditorium in Lincoln Centre. Declared a winner in the Musical Theater/Disney/ Broadway/Jazz category, Nilanjanaa will perform live ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ at Carnegie Hall.

She will join a handful of musicians like Pandit Shivkumar Sharma and Ustad Zakir Hussain during her performance at the hall in October 2016. The little nightingale, Nilanjana, responded to the questionnaire sent by Brainfeed.

You will be the youngest performer at the Mecca of Western Classical Singers. Performing at the prestigious Carnegie Hall, New York is a dream for any musician. How do you feel about it? I still can’t believe I have actually won the competition. I am thrilled about it, but also a bit nervous as it is such a famous world stage and I am honored to be there. Whom do you give the credit for your achievement? The credit goes to my mother and my music teachers.

from Taaqademy Academy, Bengaluru. How do they train you? Taaqademy has moulded me into the singer I I started People am. I take weekly learning have told vocal classes Carnatic me they get that consist of music goose bumps voice exercises when I when they hear and singing. was 6, but me sing. So that Music theory is is a very big moved on also part of my compliment. to western learning. That apart, as I have they are helping me more ﬂair for this in my own compositions style of singing and most which I have started importantly I enjoy it. working on. I am also What best compliment taking graded music have you received until exams from Rock School now? UK. I have completed People have told me up to 4th grade, will take they get goose bumps my 5thgrade exams this when they hear me sing. year. I sing western contemporary music. Jazz and Soul music are my genre.

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INTERNATIONAL YOGA DAY Yoga creates overall harmony of body and mind. It enhances mental and physical well being. Millions around the globe celebrated the 2nd International Yoga Day on June 21, 2016. To mark the occasion, yoga sessions were held in schools, ofďŹ ces, public parks and many other locations.

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SPORTS

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RITINIS

Ritinis is a team sport that originated in Lithuania, which is the only country where the sport is currently played. Lithuania is a country and the southernmost of Europe’s Baltic States. It is included in the World Lithuanian Games and was also represented in the TAFISA World Games. Ritinis is often played on a football ﬁeld and the goal posts used are of the same size as that used for football. Team

Time

Rules

Scoring

• Two teams of seven players each

The game lasts for 40 minutes, with a half-time interval after 20 minutes.

• Players can only throw the discus with their hands, while they can only block the discus with their bats.

• 1 point: for throwing the rypka behind their opponents’ back line

• The game play involves, one team throwing the disc towards the opponents goal line, where the opponents stop the disc with the bat and throw the disc back towards the attacking teams goal.

• 3 points: for throwing the rypka into their opponents’ goal

• Six players play as strikers and one player is designated as the goal keeper • It is common for teams to have ﬁve reserve players on hand.

Equipment Rypka - a hard rubber discus or “ball” (600700 grams) Ritmusa - a curved bat used to stop the discus (<150 centimetres).

• The team with the maximum score is declared as the winner. The ﬁrst rule book of stadium Ritinis game was written by Karolis Dineika in Vilniaus rypka in 1923.

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Write Right HANDWRITING SECRETS - 03 Y. Mallikarjuna Rao Director National Handwriting Academy, Hyderabad Email:handwriting56@gmail.com

Regulate the SIZE of your Handwriting

“Too much is too bad” is applicable to the size of handwriting too. One must avoid writing in abnormal sizes in the letters of their writing. You come across the people with different emotions. Some are always moody and some are over excited. There are few who don’t show much variation in their emotions. To understand them from their handwriting, read on: Lack of concentration: People those who write in extreme large size are generally found with less focus on their deeds and activities. Writers with low concentration levels and the ones who do not stick to the monotonous jobs are observed writing too big sized letters.

4 mm, they have the ability to observe even very small things. Scholars write this way.

Reserved people: Those who write very very small sized letters are shy, reserved, under portrays themselves and avoid others company. People with insecure feelings and introverts write in extremely small size.

Do not worry about small things: Writers who write large sized handwriting are always excited, over conﬁdent, creates a situation to mingle with others.

Maintains equilibrium: Writer who maintains normal size in handwriting and who always writes upper and lower zone letters in accordance with the middle zone, maintains equilibrium in their life style and with their emotions.

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HOBBY Amateur Radio (HAM radio) is a popular hobby and service that brings people, electronics and communication together. People use HAM radio to talk across town, around the world, or even into space, all without the Internet or cell phones. It’s fun, social, educational, and can be a lifeline during times of need. Amateur radio operators use two way radio stations and communicate with others similarly authorized using various modes of communication like voice, morse code, computers, internet etc. Amateur radio can be used very smartly to improve learning and to spark the interest, imagination and creativity of students in many ways. Students will be interested to know more about HAM… Mr. S. Ram Mohan, responded to the questionnaire sent by Brainfeed. Read on….

Mr. S. Ram Mohan, VU2MYH, EVC & Director, NIAR

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What is the present status of enrolment in India for HAM? Is there anyone from India on a full time HAM?

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ENCE, I C S O T E A SERVIC GY AND O L O N H TEC SOCIETY

Amateur Radio (HAM) is both a hobby and service. How popular is it in India and other countries?

HAMs. India has over 15,000 HAMs, which is very small compared to the size of population and area.

There are over 3 million radio amateurs worldwide, it is very popular in most of the developed countries like USA, Europe and Japan, nearly half of the HAM population is in Japan, USA has over 7 lakh

Our emphasis is to get more students involved into such scientiﬁc activity at a very young age, as it helps them to explore and experiment tools of communication technology by do-ityourself learning.

In view of the tremendous social impact made by amateur radio in India and abroad in providing emergency communications, the CBSE curriculum in 2005 has included a topic on amateur radio in its Class-X text book, the Board of Secondary Education, Government of AP &Telangana has also introduced the topic

of HAM radio in its ClassIX text book. As a major success story, practicing amateur radio in his free time after school, 15 year old Tom K. Jose has received several operating achievement awards from around the world, he received scholarship from RCA-USA worth $2000 besides an offer of employment and enrollment to higher

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education in USA for providing selfless service during emergency communications in the aftermath of 2014 HudHud Cyclone. 9 year old, Dhruv Rebba, of Indian origin in US is the youngest HAM Radio operator. The same is recorded in the special literature edition 2015 and again in Limca Book of Records 2016. 22 year old, Ms. S. Yamini, of NIAR became the first Indian woman to participate in an International Dxpedition in 2008. The same is recorded in Limca Book of Records. Students will be more curious to know about HAM. At what age could one take up this activity? Please highlight how it is beneficial. Any individual above the age of 12 can become an Amateur Radio operator-no matter what age, gender or physical ability.

Amateur radio can be used very smartly to improve learning and to spark the interest, imagination and creativity of students in many ways. Areas of learning that amateur radio promotes and develops: Electronics, Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Construction, Alternative Energy Sources, Teamwork, Planning, Problem Solving, Project Management, Communications, CrossCultural Awareness and much more…. Are the trainees required to undertake an examination? When do they get qualiﬁed for a license? Any Individual, Citizen of India, above 12 years of age can appear in the Amateur Station Operators Certiﬁcate (ASOC) examination conducted by Wireless Monitoring Station, Ministry of Communications & IT, Government of India.

The ASOC examination is conducted in the following topics: • Radio Theory and Practice • Radio Regulations • Morse Reception and Sending (8 wpm) The licenses are issued by Wireless Planning &Coordination Wing of DoT, Ministry of Communications & IT, Government of India after qualifying the ASOC Examination How do the amateur trainee radio operators get the necessary assistance during emergencies? Amateur Radio operator can join organisations like NIAR, who are committed to providing emergency communications in times of need. The operator must be familiar with basic radio operation, skilled in radio communication techniques and commitment to serve as well as improve their skill and knowledge from time to time. Humanitarian assistance provided by HAM Radio operators is highly publicized in the print and electronic media for their selﬂess social service during break down in normal communications due to natural/man-made

calamities, example: Nepal Earthquake, Cyclone HudHud, Uttarakhand Floods, Gujarat Earthquake, Orissa Super cyclone, Indian Ocean Tsunami, several floods & cyclones in Andhra Pradesh etc. Several prominent political leaders like Late Shri Rajiv Gandhi, Smt. Sonia Gandhi, Shri Dayanidhi Maran are HAMs. Film stars like AmitabhBachhan, Kamal Hasan, Mammootty, Rajendra Prasad, Charu Hasan are HAMs. How does the training provided benefit the students and the institution? The following benefits are accrued to educational institutions for encouraging amateur radio • Improved quality of education through science, technology and experimentation (S.T.E.M education) • Popularise school with radio contacts in India and abroad • Opportunity to serve the society in times of need • Participate in National and International events, contests, etc. • Win awards, rewards and international recognition. july 16

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Big Question

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How do Touch Screens Work? In today’s world, human life is associated with several types of technology and it has become a necessary aspect of a modern man and has the power to change the life of an ordinary man also.

what button is located under your ﬁnger, the software registers and performs the command.

hese days we don’t think twice before tapping and swiping the touch screens around us. Where ever we go we can see young and old operating touch screens be it ATM, mobile or laptop. But did you ever think about how a touch screen actually works?

There are two types of touch screens – ‘resistive’ and ‘capacitive’. Screens that you tap at the ATM or the automated supermarket checkout are called ‘resistive’ touch screens - they consist of two thin, flexible layers just barely spaced apart, with an electric current running in between. The actual LCD display of the device is located behind these layers. When you press your finger on a resistive screen, the top, flexible layer touches the bottom one, and the interruption in the electrical current is noted by the device, and it calculates the precise location of the point of contact. Depending on

The glass-covered screens on the smart phone are called a ‘capacitive’ touch screen. If you hold your smart phone in bright sunlight at just the right angle, you may be able to notice a grid of dots underneath the glass surface. This is an array of horizontal and vertical transparent conductive wires that form capacitors at the crossings, with tiny electrical currents running through. These transparent wires are typically made out of indium tin oxide, and are located on the opposite sides of a sheet of glass, which acts as

the insulator and is laminated to the top layer you touch. Human skin conducts electricity, which is how a capacitive touch screen responds - as you write a text, your ﬁnger decreases the charge at the intersection of the grid where the capacitor is located, and the microprocessor calculates which contact points are activated. This info is then relayed to the software, which in turn performs what you wanted - or, more likely, triggers yet another typo. Difference between Resistive touch screen and Capacitive touch screen

RESISTIVE

CAPACITIVE

Makes use of mechanical pressure made by ﬁnger or stylus.

Makes use of electrical properties of human body.

Has only single touch ability.

Has multi touch ability.

Made up of two ﬂexible thin layers separated by a thin gap.

Made up of one insulating layer.

Responds to touch with slight pressure.

Responds to the slightest touch.

ACTIVITY 1. Find out the reasons why capacitive touch screen cannot be operated with gloves while resistive touch screen can? 2. How can a person use a capacitive touch screen wearing gloves?

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Travel

Karuna Raj

A TRIP TO

EGYPT Pyramid of Giza Sphinx

Mohit:

Hey Shamu, which place is planned for an excursion this year for us?

Shamu: No idea, hope some exciting place. Mohit:

Shamu you know this summer I visited the land of pharaohs.

Shamu: Oh! Wow, you mean Egypt? Mohit:

Yes, I'll show the videos of the places I visited in Egypt.

Shamu: Come on. I am waiting eagerly. Karnak Temple

Mohit:

Egypt links N.E Africa with Europe. Dating back to the time of Pharaohs. Pyramid of Giza â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is situated to south-east of Cairo across Nile, the only remaining largest ancient wonders of the world. It took 20 years to build it using 2 million stone blocks.

Valley of King's Tombs

Sphinx: Built in 2500 B.C. on the plateau of Giza, Sphinx is one of the largest recognisable monuments in the world. Many unanswered questions still remains, like whose face is it modelled on? Who built it and when? Despite of ongoing debate it remains an icon of modern and ancient Egypt. Karnak Temple: Karnak and Luxor temples rank among the largest ancient temples on the planet, the temple of Amun-Ra, with series of massive columns of 69 feet each.

Muhammad Ali Mosque

Valley of king's Tombs: South down the Nile is the most famous valley of king's tombs built between 11 to 16 century, 63 tombs and burials were built for Egyptian kings, each tomb is decorated with scenes of Egyptian mythology. These helped the historians to decipher the beliefs and funerary rituals of the time. Muhammad Ali Mosque: It is situated in the citadel of Cairo in Egypt and commissioned by Muhammad Ali Pasha between 1830 and 1848. It is Turkish in style with two minerrates. Shamu: Oh! what an enchanting place! Let's suggest our Principal to take us to Egpyt. july 16

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Health

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Children need plenty of water to stay hydrated and healthy. Water makes up more than half of child’s weight, and a steady supply is necessary to keep his/her body working properly. Teaching a child why drinking plenty of water is so important, can motivate him/her to consume more. ealising the importance of this situation, a Science teacher was interacting with the students about the importance of drinking enough water.

Teacher: Students, let’s start with an experiment that will continue for a week. All that you have to do is to plant two similar saplings in two different pots and water one plant every day and leave the other plant without any water. Observe for a week and note down the result. Students: Yes mam, we are very excited to do this experiment. A week later, the students explained to the teacher that the watered plant was looking healthier and fresh whereas the other plant was drying up. The teacher now explained to the students about the importance of drinking enough water.

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Not drinking enough water could be reduced in The study says can lead to health problems the coming years. on an average, such as headaches, kids need between This water can irritability, poor physical come from a mix performance, and even cups of drinks and foods more serious issues. The of water that contain high teacher highlighted that every day. amounts of water, our body needs more water such as celery, during hot climates and melons, or tomatoes. It is also when we are physically active. recommended that consuming sugary drinks that are high in calories can lead to weight According to a new problems. study published in the American Journal of Tips for staying hydrated Public Health, many Eat a balanced diet with children do not drink plenty of fruit and enough water. vegetables.

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The study’s lead author, Erica Kenney, a scientist at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and her team examined data from a group of 4,000 children, ages 6 to19. The survey results showed that more than half of the kids were dehydrated. Of that group, boys were 76% more likely than girls to not have enough water in their system. Nearly one quarter of the kids in the survey reported drinking no plain water at all. This proves that the quality of life and well-being for many children and youth

Choose water instead of sugar-sweetened beverages. To improve the taste of water, add a wedge of lime or lemon, and you just might drink more water than you usually do. It is important to drink a lot of water when you are being physically active. Children taking part in sports or exposed to warm weather, need to replenish the lost ﬂuids by drinking more water. Consume water at regular intervals. So children, drink lots of water, and stay healthy.

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Technology

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OOMBRELLA The World’s First ‘Smart and Connected’ Umbrella

es, monsoon has arrived….and it’s time for rain coats, gum boots, colourful umbrellas and so on…..

Have you ever forgotten your umbrella at school, work, or at your friend’s place or did you have trouble with your umbrella during

A new start-up company in Paris, France, will now help turn the rain into something fun for everyone. Wezzoo has developed Oombrella, which is a smart connected umbrella that actually lets you know when it’s

going to rain and sends notiﬁcations to your smart phone so you will never leave it behind.

about real-time weather and you will be informed instantly when rain is in the forecast.

The unique part with this new invention is that it tracks all your activity, and its sensors are able to handle temperature, pressure, humidity and light through its capsule. The capsule is the brain of the oombrella.

The umbrella canopy is made with ﬁnest shiny material that results to have the smoothest noise under the rain and the coolest bright effects. It is also UV resistant and windproof.

Through its Weather Alert you get notiﬁcations on your smart phone

GUINNESS WORLD RECORD FOR

Food

On May 19, 2016, 250 masters of traditional Neapolitan pizza from across the world gathered at the Caracciolo seafront in Naples, and prepared a

heavy winds? Yes… this happens with all of us. Nothing to worry about it, as every problem has a solution… Here comes a new technology OOMBRELLA to help you out with this problem.

WORLD’S LONGEST PIZZA dedicated entirely to the eating of pizza.

delicious pizza measuring 1,853.88 meters long breaking the record of the largest pizza prepared on June 21, 2015 measuring 1,595.45 meters.

The pizza chefs took 11 hours, 2,000 kg of ﬂour, 1,600 kg of tomatoes, 2,000 kg of ﬁordilatte cheese, and 200 liters of olive oil to prepare it.

The pizza was baked during the “L’Unione Fa La Pizza” event, which was the brainchild of Oramata, the organizers of Napoli Pizza Village, the world’s largest meet

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Using a built-in GPS tracker, the umbrella will also send alerts if it realises its owner has accidentally left it somewhere.

After the Guinness World Records adjudicator Lucia Sinigagliesi had conﬁrmed the record, the pie was served to the visitors who had come to witness the event.

Do you know? The title for the world’s “largest” has remained uncontested since 2012. Called “Ottavia,” in honor of the first Roman emperor Octavian Augustus, it measured 131-feet in diameter and weighed over 51,000 pounds. high

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Career

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PHARM D THE REAL WORLD OF LIFE SCIENCE any of us are familiar with a pharmacist in the local drugstore, and may have even had important questions about our medications answered. Have you ever heard of the course Pharm D????

Pharm D is a professional Doctoral Programme. Pharmacy is the art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines. The course focuses on class room theory, penetrative laboratory experiments and motivated research projects.

Job and Career options for Pharm.D The Pharm D holder has opportunity with Administration, Government and constitutional agencies including the various drug implementation, quality control, manufacturing regulation Research and Development etc.

Objectives of Pharm D Programme 1. To provide patient care

In India it is introduced from the academic year 2008- 2009. The Pharmacy Council of India is the apex body controlling the course. As the pharmaceutical sector is growing day by day the chances to prosper in this ﬁeld is very high.

2. To manage and use resources of health care system and to improve therapeutic outcomes of medication use. 3. To promote health improvement, wellness, and disease prevention

How to enter the ﬁeld? Students those who have completed 10+2 examination with Physics and Chemistry as compulsory subjects with one of the following subjects either Mathematics or Biology are eligible to apply for this course.

4. To develop leadership qualities to function effectively as a member of health care team 5. To communicate effectively with patients and the community.

Some of the Prominent Institutes 1. Manipal College of pharmaceutical Sciences, Karnataka 2. Navodaya Education Trust’s N.E.T. College of Pharmacy, Raichur 3. Poona College of Pharmacy, Bharti Vidhyapeeth, Pune. 4. SRM College of Pharmacy, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu 5. Annamacharya College of Pharmacy, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Andhra Pradesh 6. Government College of Pharmacy, Aurangabad 7. Government College of Pharmacy, Amaravati, Maharastra

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Pharm D is a new trend in the field of career nowa-days. What are the primary skills required for the aspirer? How is the course beneficial? The paradigm shift from product to patient in recent years is due to alarming outcomes of unregulated use of medicines, which subsequently endangers patient safety. The Pharm D students will be an important link between the Doctor, Nurse and Patients. They will play a vital role in ensuring the patient safety and efficacy in therapeutic set up. Thus, a student having a liking and zeal of being associated with health care management and social commitment through Redesigning, Re-regulating, Right-sizing, and Restructuring, can select Pharm D course as a first choice as career option.

Dr. Sadhana R Shahi, Assistant Professor, Government College of Pharmacy, Aurangabad shares her views to the Brainfeed Readers….

Pharm D is a professional degree course. What are the students required to do in their internship programme?

Sixth Year Pharm D: Internship or residency training including postings in specialty units. Student should independently provide the clinical pharmacy services to the allotted wards.

There are two types of course Pharm D and Pharm D (Post Bacalaurate). Please highlight about it. What is the course content of these courses? Pharm D course is a Professional Pharmacy doctoral programme of 6 yrs duration after 10+2 (science academic stream) which includes 5yrs of academic study + 1 year of internship or residency. Pharm. D (PB) course is a Professional Pharmacy doctoral Programme. B.Pharm graduates shall be admitted as lateral entry candidate to the 4th year of Pharm. D programme & the duration of course is 3 academic years ( 2 years of study and 1 year of internship or residency). For detailed course content (syllabus) see: PharmD Regulations 2008. PCI website: www.pci.nic.in

agencies and personnel on speciﬁc issues affecting their business. i.e. working with such agencies as the Food and Drug Administration or European Medicines Agency (pharmaceuticals and medical devices); The Department of Energy; or the Securities and Exchange Commission (banking), Correspondents & Trainers, Top level medical representatives, Academics, Community Pharmacy, Geriatric Pharmacy, Governmental agencies, Home Health Care, Hospital Pharmacy, Pharmacoeconomics and many opportunities to pave path in future.

What are the diverse career options available to Pham D graduates?

Due to the changes to health care in today’s society and the increasing need for counseling and medication maintenance, pharmacists have taken on a larger role as clinicians. This increase in the need for accessible health care information for consumers has led to great strides in the ﬁeld of pharmacy. The numerous and diverse career options available to Pharm D students: Clinical Research, Pharmacovigilance, Research & Development, Pharmaceutical Industry, Medical Writing, Product Manager, Regulatory affairs, opportunities to work with federal, state, and local regulatory

(i) Six months in General Medicine department, and (ii) Two months each in three other specialty departments (Surgery, Pediatrics, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Psychiatry, Skin and VD, Orthopedics)

What advice would you give the Brainfeed readers, who would like to choose Pharm D as a career for their future?

Dear students, you will never regret of taking up this profession. The future is very bright, well pay off profession and above all you will get an immense satisfaction of serving humanity and working for betterment of life. For this you will have to give 100% commitment and dedication. All the best for future endeavour. july 16

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Space

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THE SPACECRAFT FIRE EXPERIMENT:

SAFFIRE - 1

Understanding how fire spreads in a microgravity environment is critical to the safety of astronauts who live and work in space. Now a new experiment, designed, built and managed at NASA’s Glenn Research Center, will ignite an understanding of microgravity fire on a much larger scale. In the 1990s, Russia’s Mir space station was crippled when a malfunctioning oxygen candle sparked a fire. The crew on board ultimately controlled the fire and escaped unharmed. ccording to NASA officials testing fire’s spread for safety’s sake is difficult when astronauts are nearby, and this led to the idea for Saffire-1.

ever conducted. NASA has deliberately set a ﬁre inside a Cygnus spacecraft, after detaching from the International Space Station for safety reasons.

A private cargo ship left the International Space Station on June 14, 2016 to host the biggest ﬁrein-space experiment

The ﬁre experiment called the Spacecraft Fire Experiment-1, or Safﬁre-1 will gather information that should

help protect astronauts on long-duration missions. The Saffire I payload will hitch a ride on a resupply mission to the space station in an Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo vehicle from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. When Cygnus arrives, astronauts will unload their supplies, but Saffire will remain on board Cygnus. The experiments will be conducted away from the space station, and there will be no risk to the astronauts aboard. Each Saffire experiment will be remotely operated inside a 3 x 5 foot module, split into two compartments. One side of the module is an avionics bay that contains sensors, high definition video cameras and signal processing equipment. The other side contains the hardware required to ignite a large flame and burn the fabrics and materials inside. When the experiments begin, Saffire I and III will burn one large 16 by 37-inch piece of SIBAL

cloth, which is a blend of fiberglass and cotton. The SIBAL cloth will be burned from the bottom to see how the flame spreads. If the flame extinguishes itself, scientists will light it at the top and see what happens as the flame moves opposite to the airflow. Saffire seeks to answer two questions. 1. Will an upwardspreading flame continue to grow, or will microgravity limit the size? 2. What fabrics and materials will catch fire, and how will they burn?” The next iteration of the experiment, Saffire-2, scheduled to launch in June from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, will set alight materials used commonly in space, such as those used in Plexiglas windows, astronaut clothes and storage facilities. These materials are intended to be flameretardant.

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Leisure LISTEN

The Dissatisfied Devotee

Milk for The Mullah

Greek Mythological Story

A Hodja Story

Neptune, the Roman God of the sea was said to be one of the most generous of the Gods. One day a woman went down to the beach and began singing songs in Neptune’s praise. Finally the God came and asked her what she wanted. “I want a cow,” said the woman.

One evening, a man carrying a can of milk stopped Mulla Nasruddin Hodja in the street and said he had a problem and wanted his advice. “What’s your problem?” asked Hodja.

The next moment there was a cow standing beside her. The woman was thrilled. She began singing another song. At the end of it there was another cow beside her. The woman went on singing and every time she stopped for breath there would be another cow on the beach. The beach was small and so as the number of cows started growing it started getting crowded. Finally there was just enough room for her to stand. Yet the woman was not satisﬁed. There was a large rock at her feet. She felt that if she removed the rock there would be place for one more cow there. So she picked it up and summoning all her strength threw it into the sea. Unfortunately for her, Neptune himself was coming to that place at that moment to bestow his blessings on his devotee. The rock hit him on the head. The God was so angry he dived back into the waters taking with him all the cows that had been given to the woman.

“Milk,” replied the man.

“My problem is that though I never drink wine I feel intoxicated when I get up in the morning,” explained the man. “What do you drink last thing at night?” asked Hodja, eyeing the milk can in his hand.

“Just as I thought,” said Hodja. “That is the cause of your problem.” “Does milk cause intoxication?” asked the man, astonished. “It is like this,” explained the Mulla. “You drink the milk and go to sleep. You toss around in your sleep. The milk gets churned. It turns into butter. Butter churned, turns into cheese. Cheese turns to fat. Fat into sugar. Sugar into alcohol. So you wake up with alcohol in your stomach. That is why you feel intoxicated in the morning.” “So what do I do?” asked the man, bewildered. “Simple. Don’t drink the milk,” said Hodja. “Here, give it to me.” And taking the milk can from the man, the Mulla walked away, leaving the man gaping.

O’ Mother Nature O’ Mother Nature, we thank you from the bottom of our heart… for all the wonderful things you blessed around us….. Sun and the Moon that make our day and night

Green meadows that make our vision pleasant Birds that tweet and make melodious music Streams & Rivers that make a silver line to our surroundings

Seasons that make us feel the warmth and cold Flowers that blossom to give us beautiful colors and fragrance Trees that give us shade and fresh air to breath

Species around us that teach us how to be human… We promise to protect all that you bestowed on us, in our Temple of Learning. - B.S.N.Murthy Motivational Speaker; Founder Secretary, Smart Educational Society & Kennedy Educational Academy; Guest Faculty, Vivekananda Institute of Human Excellence, Ramakrishna Mutt, Hyderabad

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Short Story

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Abdul Kalam

Designing a Fighter Jet

Follow the link or QR CODE above to watch full animated story on YouTube

As a young boy, my friends and I walked back home from school at Rameswaram.

On the way, we often rested on the banks of our village pond.

While my friends practised skimming pebbles over the rippling water, I would sit and watch the cranes and seagulls soar in the sky. The sight of those birds inspired me and I dreamt of my future.

As I grew older, my goal became clearer. I knew I had to go into engineering to realise my dreams.

The Madras Institute of Technology, popularly known as MIT, was the best institution for technical studies in South India.

I studied hard to win a scholarship that allowed me to study in such a well-known college. But it wasn‛t until the day I entered MIT that I saw my goal standing before me. The MIT campus boasted of two large aircraft that were on display.

I remember sitting near them, long after other students had gone back to the hostel. I was fascinated by the details of the design and wanted someday to create such an aircraft.

For my final project at MIT, I was asked to design a fighter jet with a team of four other classmates. We had distributed the work among us.

One day my teacher reviewed my progress and exclaimed, “Abdul, I‛m really disappointed with your plan, I had expected much more from you.”

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July

Take part in the monthly thematic contest and win free subscription of Brainfeed High magazine for one year! You are familiar with the missile man of India Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. Even though he is not amidst us, his love towards the nation will always remain evergreen in our minds. Drawing inspiration from the picture story, make a ppt on “The Life and Achievements of Dr Kalam” and mail it to info@brainfeedhigh.com on or before July 15, 2016. The winner‛s name will be announced in the following month.

10 I offered several excuses but my teacher refused to listen. “Sir, please give me one more month, I‛m sure I‛ll come up with a better design,” I pleaded with him.

13 The next morning I just took an hour‛s break, ate very little and went back to work. On Sunday morning, I had almost completed the task when I suddenly felt a presence behind me.

16 Not only did I keep my scholarship, I also graduated from MIT with outstanding marks.

11 He looked at me and said, “Look, young man, I‛ll give you three days. If on Monday morning you fail to show me a better design, I‛m afraid your scholarship will be cancelled.”

14 I turned around to discover my teacher peering at my drawing. After examining my work, he patted me on my back and said, “I knew I was putting you under stress by asking you to meet an impossible deadline. I never expected you to perform so well!”

17 I had already accomplished my goal of successfully designing an aircraft and now I was drawing close to my dream of flying one too.

12 I was speechless. The scholarship was my lifeline. Without it, I would be helpless. I had no choice but to keep on working. That night I remained awake all night toiling on the project.

15 I had hardly slept or eaten in the past three days, but I now felt a huge sense of joy and relief.

18 It was amazing to think that just like the seagulls I had observed as a child, I would soon soar in the sky.

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Language Study LISTEN

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VOCABULARY in

DEUTSCH for BEGINNERS

Here is some everyday vocabulary in DEUTSCH (German) language. Listen to the Audio for correct pronunciation.

BOOK

Review

Author: Bruce Coville (Compilation) Illustrator: Tim Hildebrandt Published: HMH Books for Young Readers Pages: 216

DEUTSCH

PRONUNCIATION

Yes

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Yah, Yahwol

Nein

Neighn

Please

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Bitte!

What?

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Woe?

Why?

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How?

Wie?

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When?

Wann?

Won?

How much?

Wieviel?

Weefeel?

How many?

Wieviele?

Weefeeleh?

THE UNICORN TREASURY: STORIES, POEMS, AND UNICORN LORE Filled with the most popular legends about the mythical unicorn and including original poems and stories, this collection brings together the singular talents of Bruce Coville, Madeleine L’Engle, Jane Yolen, C. S. Lewis, Myra Cohn Livingston, and many others. A perfect companion to Coville’s own bestselling Unicorn Chronicles and an ideal gift for the child who has always wondered about these glorious beasts, The Unicorn Treasury is sure to ﬁnd a large and enduring audience.

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BRITISH COUNCIL Activity 1 Before you read, match the word to a deﬁnition.

1. adoptive

2. documented

4. trait

5. walk upright

3. ﬁctional

a. a feature or characteristic that someone has b. having taken somebody else’s child into their care c. invented; part of a story d. supported by written data e. using two feet to move

Feral children

By Andreea Pulpea Born to be wild? People have always been fascinated by stories of children raised by animals. Also called ‘feral’, such children have lived away from humans from an early age and have not experienced social behaviour or human communication. Fact and fiction We have heard the stories and seen the films. Mowgli, the boy lost in the jungle, was my childhood hero. I watched him taking his first steps outside the care and protection of his adoptive wolf family. I loved his adventures in an animal world filled with funny bears, curious monkeys and dangerous tigers. But how close are such fictional tales to reality?

Activity 3 Answer the questions below using information from the text. Who ... 1. ....... is a ﬁctional character? 2. ....... was raised by monkeys? 3. ....... likes using social media networks? 4. ....... managed to make a full recovery? 5. ....... was found hiding in a tree? 6. ....... was only able to say three words? 7. ....... saw her son on TV?

Raised in the wild One of the first documented cases of feral children is Peter’s. He was found in the woods in 1724, aged 12. He climbed trees, ate plants and could not speak. He spent 68 years in society but the only words he ever said were ‘Peter’ and ‘King George’. John ran away aged 3 and was found a few years later (in 1991) hiding in a tree with a family of green African monkeys. He remembers the monkeys coming up to him, days after he had left his home, offering roots and nuts. His adoptive family were so upset when people came to take John that they threw sticks to stop them. Traian disappeared when he was 4. He was found in 2002 in a cardboard box in a forest. A pack of wild dogs had cared for him for three years. His mother recognised him during the TV programme announcing his discovery. Difficulties Like Mowgli, who found humans scary, feral children experience huge difficulties when they return to human society. Many have trouble learning to walk upright and show no interest in the human activity around them. Some may never be able to learn a human language.

Activity 4 Change the sentences below so that they start with the word(s) in bold and use a passive verb. Make sure the meaning stays the same. Example: Some people found Peter in 1724. Peter was found in Italic. 1. The monkeys gave John roots and nuts. 2. Sometimes people invent stories about wild children. 3. Some wild dogs cared for Traian in the forest. 4. A family of wolves adopted Mowgli when he was a baby. 5. His teachers describe Traian as an intelligent teenager.

Activity 5

A happy end for some

Do you know any other stories about feral children?

In the months following his return to society, Traian lost many of his animallike traits. He quickly switched from walking on all fours to walking upright. He is now 17 and doing well in school. His teachers describe him as a tall, intelligent teenager, who loves football and spending time on Facebook.

Do you think you could survive in the wild? For how long?

1. Although he never forgot his biological mother, he really loved his (..........) family. 2. He showed all the (..........) of a perfect gentleman. 3. Humans started to (..........) 4 million years ago. 4. Cinderella was my favourite (..........) character when I was a child.

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Now complete the sentences using words and phrases from the text. Make any changes to the words that are necessary.

Activity 1 1. b; 2. d; 3. c; 4. a; 5. e Activity 2 1. adoptive; 2. traits; 3. walk upright; 4. ﬁctional; 5. documented Activity 3 1. ropen; 2. bunyip; 3. sirrush; 4. mountain gorilla; 5. yeti; 6. mokele-mbebe Activity 4 1. John was given roots and nuts (by the monkeys). 2. Stories about wild children are sometimes invented. 3. Traian was cared for by wild dogs in the forest. 4. Mowgli was adopted by a family of wolves when he was a baby. 5. Traian is described as an intelligent teenager (by his teachers).

Activity 2

What would you miss most if you left human society for a while?

5. The social behaviour of chimpanzees was (..........) in a 2004 book by Jane Goodall.

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CHILDREN’S COLUMN

Haritha Haram Haritha Haram is a flagship of Telangana government which envisages increasing the present 24% tree cover in the state to 33% of the total Geographical area of the state. It is said to be the largest afforestation programme in India and aims to plant 230 crore saplings in 3 years. The main aspect of this campaign is including people in the movement. People can choose saplings of their choice and plant them at homes, offices, industrial areas etc. The Telangana Government has identified 36 pollution resistant trees and they will be planted in the industrial areas. To sum up with, the Telangana State is trying to present a ‘green garland’ (Haritha Haram) to its mother earth. Hence, we should also take a step to make our earth evergreen with its natural wealth of trees.

Congratulations!!! We are pleased to inform that Shaivya Sree, Class IX, Sri Vijaya Sai High school, Bodhan, Telangana, is the winner of the June 2016 thematic contest on the topic Father’s Day.

Hello every one, I am Digvijay Singh, from Class VI, JKG Senior Secondary School, Ghaziabad. On the account of 2nd International Yoga Day, Rashtriya Yoga Shiksha Abhiyan organized various activities at JKG Sr Sec School on April 23 and 24, 2016. Around 270 children of classes I – XII, participated in various activities like yoga asana, drawing, writing, speech etc. On June 21, 2016, Rashtriya Yog Bharti organized various activities at Dudheshwar Nath Temple in which students of JKG participated.

R. Manisha, X St. Anthony’s Grammar High School, Dammaiguda Hyderabad

Hi friends! This is Y. Mary Deepika, IX Std., Oak Valley International School, Hyderabad, reporting about the Friend-attainment Fresher’s Day. We celebrated fresher’s day for welcoming the students as well as teachers who are new and blessed to join the beautiful and affectionate Oak Valley family. The party started with the dance performance of existing students and then continued with the performance of new students. The teachers joined together on the stage to dance for the song “Japong……….Japong”. Finally it was a blend of old and new resulting in Oak Valley family.

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1. Dr. R Seetharaman, Group CEO of Doha Bank, has been honoured with the 2016 Green Economy Visionary at the 2016 Union of Arab Banks (UAB) for his contribution in environment-friendly activities and for promoting green economy for nearly two decades. 2. Bhedabahal is a proposed ultra mega power project (UMPP) located near Sundargarh in Odisha. 3. The world’s longest and deepest rail tunnel has been opened in Switzerland. The tunnel has taken 17 years to build at a cost of 12.2 billion Swiss francs (£8.4 billion). 4. Rahul Johri, the former media professional has taken charge as the ﬁrst-ever Chief Executive Ofﬁcer (CEO) of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

6. The book “India vs Pakistan : Why Can’t we just be friend?” has been penned by Husain Haqqani, Pakistan’s ex-envoy to United States. 7. Sudarsan Pattnaik, the famous Indian sand artist, has won gold medal in People’s Choice Prize at 2016 world championship festival of sand sculpting Russe in Bulgaria for his sand sculpture – “Drugs kill Sports”. 8. The 2016 Women’s Hockey Junior World Cup will be held in Santiago, Chile from November 24 – December 4, 2016. 9. Dharmendra Pradhan, the Minister of State (I/C) for Petroleum and Natural Gas, represented India at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in St Petersburg, Russia, held on June 16-17, 2016.

5. The Copa America cup for 2016 is being hosted by United States. 10. The ofﬁcial slogan for the 2016 Rio Olympic and Paralympics Games is “A New World”.

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9 A criss cross is a fun puzzle in which you are presented with an empty grid and a list of words underneath. Each word must be placed into the grid in either an across or down direction in order to ﬁll the grid.

6 letters Basket Beaker Bottle Bucket Carton Casket Coffer Drawer Folder Goblet Holder

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