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Your Proofness: Dilaira Dubash Master Storyteller: Hurmat Majid Creativity Analysts: Jamal Khurshid, Essa Malik, Talha Ahmed Khan, Omer Asim, Mohsin Alam, Aamir Khan, Eesha Azam, Maryam Rashid, Hira Fareed and Umar Waqas
The world of Winnie the Pooh PAGE 2-3
The oldest spice in the world PAGE 4
Doggie tales PAGE 6
Fruit shashlik PAGE 8
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Hav you ever wondered where Winnie the Pooh came from? Many of us only know about Have th Disney animations of Winnie the Pooh but the bear is much older. The writer of the the s series A A Milne introduced the bear to us in his Christmas story in London EveningN News in 1925. The character and his friends got their own series of stories, known as W Winnie-The-Pooh, in 1926. The second book The House at Pooh Corner came out in 1928.
A A Milne, Miln ne, e the t writer that created the fluffy yellow bear, admitted that he had been inspired by his son Christopher Robin and his plush toys. that Christopher Robin visited and befriended “Winnie” a bear at the London zoo. The bear had been the unofficial mascot for The story goes g Second Canadian Infantry Brigade in the First World War. When the bear was moved to the zoo, Christopher made friends with him during the Secon eventful visit. Later he bought a bear and named him Winnie. “Pooh” was the name of a swan Christopher had met while the family was one even vacation. Many of the other characters in the book are also inspired by Christopher Robin Milne’s plush toys. While Milne was looking for an on vacat for his book, his friend recommended E H Shepard, Milne was hesitant about meeting Shepard but the illustrator took matters an a n an an illustrator il into iin int ntto o his h own hands. He visited Milne’s inspiration, Ashdown forest and created illustrations based on what he saw. Later he visited Milne and presented him with his creations. Impressed, Milne hired him on the spot. Since then the Pooh stories have broken many book records –even in prese se ges foreign languages. They have been published in dozens o f langunas theand the 1958 Latin translation even became the first non-English book to i only a m e Latin book to ever be seen on the list. be featured on The New York Times Best Seller List and i t r
He is the young master of the 100 Acre Woods. Christopher Robin’s address in the forest is “Top of the Forest (High Ground), 100 Acre Wood East.” He is everyone’s best friend and loves to help his friends. He helps Pooh collect honey, he rescues Roo and Tigger when they are stuck in high trees in the forest and nails Eeyore’s tail. His favorite food is probably birthday cake and one of his favourite things to do is to host birthday and hero parties. But what he likes doing best is “Nothing”.
He is a small golden bear who wears an old red colour T-shirt. irt. He does a lot of silly things and his love for ‘hunny’ (honey) is endless. Winnie ss. W innie the Pooh is also called Pooh Bear or just Pooh. He is best friends en nds with everyone in the 100 Acre Wood. The first thing he says when he gets up in the morning is, “What’s for breakfast?”. Pooh invented the game ‘Poohsticks’. He likes to exercise in the morning, go on an adventure with Christopher Robin or Piglet, and visit friends who he thinks have ‘hunny’.
Piglet is a very brave animal even though he’s tiny. He is always seen wearing a long pink striped shirt. His original address in the 100 Acre Wood was the Beech Tree, south of Pooh’s house, 100 Acre Wood Southwest. But he later starts living with Pooh and gives Owl his old house. What he loves doing best is going on adventures with Pooh. He is quite fond of bright colours and balloons. He likes blowing dandelions. Hay corns are his favourite food. Every Tuesday Piglet spends his day at Christopher Robin’s house.
He is a very bouncy tiger. He is always in an electrifying and exuberant mood and loves to bounce around on hiss springy tail. Tigger is always looking to make the most out of what life has to offer. According to him the most wonderful thing about Tiggers is that “I’m the only one!”” His favourite food is the extract of malt but he is known n to be an extremely fussy eater. He takes a lot of pleasure re in being able to “unbounce” some of the other animals in the 100 Acre Wood.
Kanga is the sole female character in Winnie-the-Pooh. S She h iiss the he th he mo moth mother ther er a of a young joey (baby kangaroo) named Roo. Kanga carries family her her ies h her er ffam a ililyy in h am er h er err e her pocket and is the fastest amongst amongst all animals forest. alss in al in the the ffor ores estt. She Sh S he is he is very protective of Roo and always warning him of dangers. Kanga & Roo live in the Northern section of the 100 Acre Wood. Every Tuesday Kanga goes to Pooh’s house and tries to teach him how to jump. Roo is the youngest inhabitant of the 100 Acre Wood, he love milk and hates the extract of malt. He really likes the game ‘Poohsticks’ and likes playing with Tigger too.
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3 Owl is one of the two characters that are not inspired by Christopher Robin Milne’s toys. Owl is the oldest and wisest inhabitant of 100 Acre Woods, he is often called upon for help by Pooh and the others. Owl has that knack of giving advice even when it’s not asked for. He is thought to be able to read and write by his friends but in truth he knows very little about spellings and yet he manages to keep his secret. Owl used to live in “The Chestnut” until the wind blew it away and he shifted into Piglet’s house.
Eeyore is a donkey and for some he is their favourite Pooh character. He is blue-gray and about 3 years in age with a pink bow on his tail. Eeyore is an extremely gloomy donkey and has a very bad habit of losing his tail! Mostly, he tends to depend on his friends to find his lost tail for him and thereafter Christopher Robin fixes his tail using a drawing pin. He simply loves it when his friends remem ber him on his birthday and celebrates it with them. He often says, “Thanks for noticin’ me” and “Oh, well”.
Rabbit was also a figments of Milne’s imagination. He is another sharp creature in the woods. He is often seen planning events even if nothing comes of those plans. Rabbit does not like being disturbed or interrupted. He once kidnapped Roo and his wit often takes a malicious turn. It is said that Rabbit and Owl are so sharp because they are the only creatures in 100 Acre Woods who have brains because they were not stuffed toys. Rabbit even mentions this fact when he says, “You and I, Owl, have brains, the others simply have fluff.”
• Contrary to many rumors, Winnie’s last name is nott S Sanders. d T This hi story t was spread because Pooh’s house says “Sanders” over the door, but it is generally accepted that the name was put above the door by the home’s previous resident and that Pooh just never bothered to take it down. • Owl and Rabbit were created by Milne and illustrator Ernest Shepard solely to add a little more variety to the character list. Gopher wasn’t added until 1977, when Disney added the character to their animated feature, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. • You can see all of the real plush toys that inspired the characters at the New York Public Library, with one exception — Christopher Robin lost his Roo plush in 1930s, so it is sadly missing from the collection. • When the first A A Milne books came out, Pooh was originally called Winnie-the-Pooh, but when Disney acquired the rights to animate the characters, they dropped the hyphen and the hyphen-less title became much more popular. • You can visit most of the locations from the stories. The Hundred Acre Wood, Roo’s Sandpit, Poohsticks Bridget and the rest are all fictionalised names of real places in the Ashdown Forrest in Sussex, England where Milne bought a country home in 1925. For example, the Hundred Acre Wood is really the Five Hundred Acre Wood and Galleon’s Leap is really Gill’s Lap.
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Fun facts about Dogs Tiger Woods stuttered as a child and used to talk to his dog until he fell asleep in an effort to get rid of it.
Q: What bow can’t be tied? A: A rainbow.
Q: What happens if you eat yeast and shoe polish? A: Every morning you’ll rise and shine!
Q: What is it called when a cat wins a dog show? A: A CAT-HAS-TROPHY.
Service dogs are trained to know when they are on duty. When their harness is on, they know its business time. When you take it off, the pups immediately become playful and energetic. The Beatles song “A day in the Life” has an extra highpitched whistle, audible only to dogs. It was recorded by Paul McCartney for the enjoyment of his Shetland sheepdog. Dogs don’t enjoy being hugged as much as humans and other primates. Canines interpret putting a limb over another animal as a sign of dominance. Some stray Russian dogs have figured out how to use the subway system in order to travel to more populated areas in search of food.
Q: What do you call a baby monkey? A: A Chimp off the old block.
Q: What stays in the corner and travels all over the world? A: A stamp.
Dogs are capable of understanding up to 250 words and gestures, can count up to five and can perform simple mathematical calculations. The average dog is as intelligent as a two-year-old child. In ancient China, an emperor’s last line of defense was a small Pekingese dog literally hidden up his sleeve.
Did you know? The oldest spice in the world. Did you know that cinnamon is the oldest known spice in the world? Cinnamon has been traded around the world since before the 1500s. Indonesian sailors began trading cinnamon to Madagascar and the east coast of Africa in the first century AD. Cinnamon is a spice derived from the bark of the Ceylon Cinnamon Tree. The tree is native to Sri Lanka, but also grows wild in southern India and in Burma. Cinnamon is harvested during the rainy season when the bark easily lifts of the tree and the red flush of the young leaves is turning to green. A small knife is used to ease off the inner bark into strips that are about one meter long. The bark is then dried and curls naturally into quills. Cinnamon has been used for culinary and medicinal purposes for millions of years and to this day is still an integral part of many cuisines around the globe. In Asian and Middle Eastern cooking, cinnamon is often used in savory dishes, particularly in curries and rice dishes, whereas in Western cooking it is almost exclusively used in sweet dishes. It has been an ingredient since the time of the Egyptians, who used cinnamon in their embalming mixtures and was used by Moses as an anointing oil. Today, cinnamon is not only recognized as an important spice for culinary purposes, but in medicinal ways as well. Cinnamon is commonly used to relieve upset stomach and gas, diarrhea, and various other ailments. To stimulate appetite and enhance digestion and reduce pain of minor cuts and abrasions. Also, cinnamon toothpaste leaves a refreshing flavour in your mouth. However, it also has antiseptic properties that help kill bacteria that leads to tooth decay and gum disease. It also affectivly kills fungi.
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Soapy Canal The Ashton Canal in Clayton, Manchester, was filled with suds a day after a fire at the industrial facility on Easter Sunday. It is believed that water used by the fire service to dampen down the flames mixed with detergent stored in the burning buildings. This then turned into a huge wall of foam when it drained into the nearby canal. Environment Agency officers were dispatched to the area near to Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium to investigate the impact on wildlife with concerns for the safety of fish. A spokesman said: “The Environment Agency is investigating after receiving reports of foam on a 30m stretch of the Ashton Canal, Manchester. Initial investigations by Environment Agency Officers show that there appears to have been minimal impact on water quality, but our officers will continue to monitor and respond as necessary.” TELEGRAPH.CO.UK
A double take A retired clergyman spent months wondering why everyone hailed him like a long-lost friend — albeit with the wrong name. But the mystery was solved after Neil, 69, finally asked a shopkeeper the reason. Only then did it emerge that he is the spitting image of community stalwart John Jemison, 74, who has lived in Braintree, Essex, for half a century. Although strangers and with a five-year age difference the pair could pass as identical twins. They also share an astonishing number of interests. Neil said, “Twice a month I would have someone pass me in the street and say ‘Hello John’. I brushed it off at the time but then I realised that the cafe owner always referred to me as John as well.” This was when Neil took the café owner aside and asked him about the mystery. The café owner didn’t believe Neil wasn’t John until he was shown Neil’s credentials. Neil tried to look for John Jemison over the internet without success until the men bumped into each other at a bus tour to the British Library. John said, “I knew nothing about it all until Neil approached me on the coach trip to the British Library. He came up to me and said ‘Are you John Jemison?’ and I couldn’t believe it when he explained it all.” He added, “My only worry is that a number of people probably think I’ve been ignoring them when they’ve been saying ‘Hello John’ to Neil all this time.” The men are both grandfathers of four, both sing, write poetry and love amateur dramatics. In the 1960s both studied at the College of St Mark and St John, then based in Chelsea, and later worked as teachers. The two men also use the same bank and live within half a mile of each other. EXPRESS.CO.UK
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The runaway snake
Karen Marriott dialed the police helpline after her 16-year-old daughter Hannah spotted a reptile curled up in a bath mat on a radiator. Craig Wallace, a detective based at Rochdale police station, overheard the control room call and offered to help as he has experience with keeping snakes. Detective Wallace went to the family’s home in Littleborough, Rochdale, and managed to capture the snake in a pillow case. It was taken back to the station before being transferred into the care of the RSPCA. The reptile, white with black eyes, is believed to be a northern pine snake and Wallace thinks it might be an escaped pet that got into the house during recent warm weather. Karen, 40, said,“It was like something out of a film. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.” And the hero policeman joked, “I wanted to keep it as a station pet, but no-one would sit near me.” TELEGRAPH.CO.UK
Greedy sea lion A man was injured on Sunday after he was pulled into the water by a sea lion that jumped from the water at a San Diego marina and grabbed a fish he was holding, authorities said. The sea lion jumped onto the railing of a boat at the Hyatt Mission Bay Marina and snatched a fish being held by a man on the boat, said San Diego Fire Rescue spokesman Lee Swanson. The man was pulled into the water for about 15 seconds, Swanson said, and was brought to a hospital where he was treated for cuts on his arm and hand. Witnesses, including lifeguards, reported the man was posing for a photo with the large fish when the incident occurred. California sea lions, many of them pups, have been washing ashore stranded and hungry in record numbers in recent months. HUFFINGTONPOST.COM
The Faithful Nurse By Noor bint e Shahid King William had two daughters but he really wanted a son. The queen and king were very sad when they saw other king’s sons at parties. One day their dream came true and they were blessed with a cute and chubby baby boy. The whole kingdom rejoiced and celebrations lasted several days. The boy was christened John. Sadly, the queen got severely ill and died very soon after the baby boy’s birth. The king was very sad at his loss but he did not get time to grieve as, he had an infant son who needed attention. So he sent his men far and wide, all over the land to find a suitable nurse to take care of his beloved prince. In a town far away the men found a suitable woman by the name of Nadeea. She had a son of her own that she cared for very well. Judging from her behaviour with her son the men deemed Nadeea to be the perfect candidate. When she was brought before the king he put her though many tests to ensure that she would care for his son like her own. Each test that the king presented, Nadeea passed. The last stage of her gruesome grilling was a blood oath, to protect the prince with her life. Nadeea hesitated a little but then she took the oath and sealed it with her blood. She then stated to live at the palace as Prince John’s nurse. One day, the king’s enemy Riwarden plotted to abduct the little prince and then ask for the kingdom as his ransom. He sent some spies in the palace to capture the little prince. The nurse somehow found out that the spies were in the palace. Remembering her oath she exchanged the prince with her own son in the cradle and sent the prince off to the maid’s chambers. Later when the spies came into the room they struggled with the guards and during the fight, Nadeea’s son was struck with a sword and died. All the spies were captured or killed and the king was ina state of rage and ready to wage war upon Riwarden’s lands when Nadeea quietly entered his chambers and told him what she had done. The king rejoiced until he saw the tears streaming down Nadeea’s face. He vowed to avenge her son and got a splendid tomb in the palace for the nurse. Thousands of people came to pay tribute to the faithful nurse’s sacrifice.
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6 Directions: • Take a rock and wash it to remove any traces of dirt. Wait for it to dry.
Materials:
• Rocks • Craft wire • Wire cutter • Photos
• Take the wire and wrap it around the middle of the rock two or three times. • Then leave a length of the wire and let it stand above the rock. • Turn the wire into a loop, attach a paperclip to it, threading the wire through it a few times. • Balance a photo in the paperclip. • Your unique photo display is now ready. SOURCE: SHELTERNESS.COM
Doggie Tales The Curse of the Were-Rabbit It’s ‘vege-mania’ in Wallace and his faithful dog Gromit’s neighborhood, and the “AntiPesto” duo is incharge of keeping the pests under control. With only days to go before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition, business is booming. Suddenly, a huge, mysterious, veg-ravaging “beast” begins attacking the town’s sacred vegetable plots at night, and the competition hostess, Lady Tottington, commissions the duo to catch it and save the day. With the fate of the competition in the balance, Lady Tottington is eventually forced to allow Victor her villainous suitor to hunt down the vegetable-chomping marauder. Little does she know that Victor’s real intent could have dire consequences for her and our two heroes.
Bolt A girl named Penny and a dog named Bolt, who has various superpowers, must constantly thwart the evil plans of Doctor Calico. However, little does Bolt know he is actually just a star on a hit television series called Bolt. To gain a more realistic performance, the TV show’s producers have deceived Bolt his entire life, arranging the filming in such a way that. One day Bolt escapes from his on-set trailer when he mistakenly believes Penny has been kidnapped by the television villain and finds himself in New York. Meanwhile, in Hollywood, Penny is saddened over Bolt’s disappearance but is forced to continue filming. Bolt starts to notice that his superpowers aren’t working, and rationalizes this is the effect that styrofoam has on his body. The movie shows Bolt’s struggles in finding his way in the world without his powers so that he could be reunited with Penny.
The adventures of Tin Tin Having bought a model ship, the Unicorn, for a pound off a market stall Tintin is initially puzzled that the sinister Mr. Sakharine should be so eager to buy it from him, resorting to murder and kidnapping Tintin and accompanied by his marvellous dog Snowy. The villian and his gang sail to Morocco on an old cargo ship along with Tin Tin and Snowy. Haddock tells Tintin that over three hundred years earlier his ancestor Sir Francis Haddock was forced to scuttle the original Unicorn when attacked by a piratical forebear of Sakharine but he managed to save his treasure and provide clues to its location in three separate scrolls, all of which were secreted in models of the Unicorn. Tintin and Sakharine have one each and the villain intends to use the glass-shattering top Cs of operatic soprano the Milanese Nightingale to secure the third. Our boy hero, his dog and the captain must prevent Sakharine from obtaining all three scrolls to fulfil the prophesy that only the last of the Haddocks can discover the treasure’s whereabouts.
Rain Reign Rose Howard is obsessed with homonyms. She’s thrilled that her own name is a homonym, and she purposely gave her dog Rain a name with two homonyms (Reign, Rein), which, according to Rose’s rules of homonyms, is very special. Not everyone understands Rose’s obsessions, her rules, and the other things that make her different — not her teachers, not other kids, and not her single father. When a storm hits their rural town, rivers overflow, the roads are flooded, and Rain goes missing. Rose’s father shouldn’t have let Rain out. Now Rose has to find her dog, even if it means leaving her routines and safe places to search.
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Tips for decluttering your life Do you ever feel like you spend your days in a haze but by the end of it nothing is actually accomplised? It is probably because you don’t have a plan. Life gets easier when you have a plan as it keeps you from wasting your time and energy. Here are eight tips to help you organise your life and get work done without feeling stressed. Write down your goals on a white board. The goals can be something like ‘Stop talking in class’, ‘Exercise more’ or ‘improve grades by report card time’. These goals can be on different topics of life from health to behavior to school. Clean up your areas of work. This may include your bedroom, locker, desk, book bag, etc. Make sure they’re cleaned out before you think about starting to get organised. This will help you feel like one part of organising your life is accomplished. Get a planner. If you already have one, awesome. Write down your daily events. Let’s say you’re going to a friend’s house at 3:30 on Tuesday. Write it down. It keeps things more organised when it comes to homework. If you’re at your friend’s house until 7:00, that gives you until 10:00 to finish that page of homework. It will keep you from forgetting your projects, too! When you take something out of its place, put it back. Don’t wait until later to do it, or that rainfall will turn into a hurricane. Its way easier to just keep it neat as you go throughout your day! Write a list of things you do in the morning, from when you wake up, to when you come to school. For example: 6:00 — Wake up; 6:05 — Get dressed; 6:10 — Eat breakfast. Make sure you stick to the schedule, don’t skip some things or don’t press the snooze button, as that will ruin your schedule. However, keep things flexible, or it will be too confining. The best way to do this is to create a schedule on a white board so you can change it every day and not waste paper. Take some time in your day to overview what has been done and what has to be done. Have you changed your behavior the way you wanted to? Or have you raised your grade in science class? Keep notes of things. If Track is canceled, write it down. It lets you recall things easier. Step back and look at your life. Does it seem more organised? Have you done everything you have needed to do? If so, congratulations!
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You will need:
• 2 liter bottle of a soft drink • Piece of paper or a tube for the lollies • Pack of Mentos. What to do:
1. Open the bottle of soft drink and place the bottle on the ground so it will not tip over. 2. Roll up the paper into a cylinder that’s just wide enough for the lollies to slide through. 3. Put your finger over the bottom of the roll and ask your friend to put the lollies into the paper tube.
Ingredients: Strawberries Melons Watermelon Pineapple Kiwis Skewers
cut in cubes cut in cubes tinned chunks cut in cubes 10 to 12
4. Hold the tube of lollies just above the bottle and remove your finger so all the lollies drop straight in. You need to drop all the lollies into the bottle at the same time. 5. As soon as you have done that, move away from the bottle as quickly as possible.
Method: • Take the fruits and push them through the skewers in a pattern. For example: melon, strawberry, watermelon, pineapple. • Repeat the pattern twice on each skewer. • Refrigerate and serve chilled.
What is happening:
Soft drinks are bubbly because carbon dioxide gas has been forced into the bottle under pressure. Until you open the bottle, the gas mostly stays dissolved in the liquid and cannot expand to form bubbles, which the gas will do when not under pressure. The eruption is due to a process called nucleation, which is a physical process in which a change of state — for example, liquid to solid. When the carbon dioxide in the soda is attracted to the Mentos, forcing it to change its state rapidly. This creates so much pressure that the soda goes flying. SOURCE: WWW.CSIRO.AU
Remember kids, always get permission from your parents before you start. It’s always a good idea to have a helper nearby.
WARNING: This activity has to be performed outdoors.