The Express Tribune hi five - August 30

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Your Proofness: Dilaira Dubash Master Storyteller: Hurmat Majid Creativity Analysts: Jamal Khurshid, Essa Malik, Talha Ahmed Khan, Mohsin Alam, Eesha Azam, Maryam Rashid, Hira Fareed and Umar Waqas

Safety first PAGE 2-3

History of pies PAGE 4

Grass bookmarks PAGE 6

Mini fruit tarts PAGE 8

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Hi light

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As we grow up, we are often put in situations where we are alone and do not have our parents around to guide us. At those times, whether you are at home, in school or anywhere else, learn to trust your gut. If you feel that an ‘adventurous’ idea that your friend has had may land you in trouble, then it might be a smart move to refuse to do it. The same goes for how you feel around certain people — no matter who it is, if your gut tells you something is wrong, talk to your parents about this feeling. And if someone, a friend or another elder, ever tells you not to tell your mom and dad about something, it usually means you need to tell them immediately. Your parents are always concerned about your safety; they would never scold you for coming to them with something that bothers you.

Talk to your parents about the activities that you can do at home while they are away. If your siblings are around, make sure you stay close by and keep a look out for trouble, such as injuries or accidents.

When you’re alone don’t say “No one is home” when you answer the phone, as you don’t want strangers knowing you’re all alone. Tell callers, “Mom/Dad can’t come to the phone right now, may I take a message?"

Never open the door to strangers, and ask your parents who is allowed in the house while they are away. Do not ask friends over without your parents’ consent.

Have a list of emergency contacts, like your parents and people your parents trust, near the phone.

Have a basic emergency kit close by. It should include first aid equipment as well as emergency supplies like flashlights and batteries.

Ask your parents about which neighbours to ask for help in case you need help while they are away. Ask your parents to always call and tell you if they will be late coming home.

Know the school staff. Avoid talking to strangers, even within the school premises. Be polite to them but not too friendly.

Try not to be alone all the time, especially during recess or PE, as being in large groups makes you less of a target for bullies.

Avoid secluded areas of the school. Try to save restroom usage for breaks or recess.

Introduce your school friends to your parents when you can. Even if they don’t meet your friends in person, it is a good idea to talk to your parents and siblings about your friends. After all, like it or not, parents do have better judgment than we do.

If you see someone doing something wrong, like bullying, report it to a teacher or someone in the management. This does not make you a ‘tell tale’, it makes you a brave person who is standing up against something wrong.

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Hi light

Introduce your friends to your parents. Never go to a friend’s house unless your parents have met them in person. Ask your parents for permission before you go over to a friend’s house.

Ask your friends about the kind of activities they have in mind for when you hang out. If something they mention makes you uneasy, voice your concerns.

Always give your friend’s contact information, as in their address, home and mobile phone numbers to your parents when you go visit them. Never visit them while friends parents are not around.

Practice saying ‘no’ in a peer pressure situation. Humour usually helps in such circumstances. If your friends refuse to budge, leave them to their devices and walk away from the situation. Discuss your strategy with your parents or elder siblings.

Here’s a set of general rules that you should set up for yourself and your younger siblings while surfing the Internet or using mobile phones. It is a good idea to sit down and discuss these with your parents and younger siblings.

I will not give out personal information such as my address, telephone number or parents’ work address/telephone number without my parents’ permission.

I will tell my parents right away if I come across something that makes me feel uncomfortable.

If at all possible, try and walk with a group of friends.

Know exactly where you are going and do not wander or stroll.

Stay in busier areas. Walk in the middle of the sidewalk.

Avoid abandoned or empty buildings.

If you feel threatened or feel something is going to happen to you, run to a populated area or store and ask for help.

Never take secluded short cuts. Use the same route everyday going to and from school. If you run errands, sit down with your parents and plan a route you both know to and from stores or friends’ houses.

When walking on the streets avoid every possible distraction and stay focused on where you are going. This may include not wearing headphones or playing handheld games.

Have emergency contact numbers saved in your cell phone if you carry one, or else have them memorised and written down on a paper or notebook.

I will talk with my parents about posting pictures of myself or others online and not post any pictures that my parents consider to be inappropriate.

I will not respond to any messages that are mean or in any way make me feel uncomfortable. It is not my fault if I get a message like that. If I do I will tell my parents right away.

I will not give out my passwords to anyone (even my best friends) other than my parents.

I will check with my parents before downloading or installing software or doing anything that could possibly cause our computer or mobile device to malfunction or jeopardise my family’s privacy.

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Fun Facts about Milk A cow produces an average of 350,000 glasses of milk in a lifetime.

Q: What do elves learn in school?

A: The elf-abet

To get the same amount of calcium as in an 8-ounce glass of milk, you’d have to eat one-fourth cup of broccoli, seven oranges or six slices of wheat bread.

Farmers measure milk in pounds, not gallons.

Q: Why did the boy bring a ladder to school?

A: He wanted to go to high school

A cow will produce an average of 6.3 gallons of milk each day. That’s more than 2,300 gallons each year!

The greatest amount of milk ever produced in one year was 59,298 pounds by a Holstein cow named Robthom Sue Paddy.

Q: What do you call a fake noodle?

A: An Impasta

On a dairy farm, a farmer’s day begins and ends with milking the cows.

Fresh milk will stay fresh longer if you add a pinch of salt to each quart.

Q: What did the mushroom say to the fungus?

A: You’re a fun guy [fungi]

A cow is more valuable for its milk, cheese, butter and yogurt than for its beef.

In the US, home delivery of milk started in 1942 as a war conservation measure.

Q: Why can’t you give Elsa a balloon?

A: Because she will Let It Go

More than 1,000 new dairy products are introduced in the market each year.

? w o n k u o y d i D History of pies Pies have been around since the time of the ancient Egyptians. The first pies were made by early Romans who may have learned about them through the Greeks. These pies were sometimes made in “reeds” which were used for the sole purpose of holding the filling and not for eating with the filling.

The Romans must have spread the word about pies around Europe as the Oxford English Dictionary notes that the word ‘pie’ was a popular word in the 14th century. The first pie recipe was published by the Romans and was for a rye-crusted goat cheese and honey pie.

Early pies were predominately meat pies. Pyes (pies) originally appeared in England as early as the twelfth century. The crust of the pie was referred to as “coffyn”. There was actually more crust than filling. Often these pies were made using fowl and the legs were left to hang over the side of the dish and used as handles. Fruit pies or tarts (pasties) were probably first made in the 1500s. English tradition credits making the first cherry pie to Queen Elizabeth I. Pie came to America with the first English settlers. The early colonists cooked their pies in long narrow pans calling them “coffins” like the crust in England. As in the Roman times, the early American pie crusts often were not eaten, but simply designed to hold the filling during baking. It was during the American Revolution that the term ‘crust’ was used instead of ‘coffyn’.

Over the years, pie has evolved to become what it is today - “the most traditional American dessert”. Pies have become such a part of American culture throughout the years, that we now commonly use the term “as American as apple pie.”

SOURCE: PIECOUNCIL.ORG

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World wide weird

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Get your weekly dose of unusual and funny news from across the globe!

Life on the go Leonie Muller, 23, pays £240 for a monthly season ticket — saving £50 a month on the £290 she had been paying as rent. The student at Tubingen University in south-west Germany packs all her belongings, including her clothes, textbooks, laptop and wash bag, into a backpack and takes it everywhere with her. She studies for her degree and sleeps on highspeed trains, washing her hair in the bathroom.

Leonie, from Stuttgart, finds the nomadic lifestyle works well, allowing her to regularly visit her family in Berlin and her friends in Cologne. “I really feel at home and I can visit so many more friends and cities. It’s like being on vacation all the time. I read, I write, I look out of the window and I meet nice people all the time. There’s always something to do on trains,” says Leonie. She documents her railway experiences in a blog called Wherever You Go, There You Are and plans to base her student dissertation on them. She admitted that noise and security concerns for herself and her belongs can make sleeping on the train difficult. But she want to inspire people to question their habits and the things they consider to be normal.

A spokesman for Deutsche Bahn, whose trains Leonie uses, said: “There are many people who are in a train a lot of time. That’s not so unusual.” EXPRESS.CO.UK

Little ball of trouble

A brave little Humboldt penguin could give Wallace and Gromit’s Feathers McGraw a valuable lesson in the art of escaping from police. The little bird was finally detained by Peruvian cops after he gave them the run around in the northern region of Ancash.

Residents of the Bello Sur settlement in the Nuevo Chimbote district called the police when they spotted the little animal walking around dazed and confused. They were finally able to corner the frightened little creature, who tried to defend himself with a few pecks. He was wrapped in a jacket, put into a police vehicle and taken to the police station.

Residents say they did not know how the penguin got there but local media are speculating the penguin fell from a passing vehicle, leaving him stranded in the middle of an avenue. An unidentified Nuevo Chimbote resident said they saw the disoriented penguin running in front of cars. It was lucky the Nuevo Chimbote residents called for help, because the penguin was nearly run over by a motortaxi and bitten by a dog. “The cars honked their horns and we realised it was a penguin,” said this resident. MIRROR.CO.UK

Big world record Competitive eater Adam Moran wolfed down 17 McDonald’s Big Macs in an hour last month, a gut-busting challenge that he recently said left him doubled over in pain.

In a fast-forwarded video, Moran seems to hit a wall after about 10 Big Macs, 20 minutes in. He doesn’t quite reach his goal of 25, but he still pays the ultimate gustatory price.

“As soon as I’m done, I regret it,” he wrote on his blog Sunday.

“That night, I couldn’t sleep, I had the most intense stomach ache of my admittedly short career, and I ask myself hundreds of times why, oh why, did I do something this ludicrous?”

Multiple news outlets are reporting that the feat has set a world record, though they’re attributing it to an unofficial site. Guinness World Records doesn’t have a title for Big Macs per hour, though it lists the Most Big Macs Consumed at 26,000. In that arena, the Moran has a long way to go.

He’s also outmatched in speed-Mac-ing. Matt “Megatoad” Stony once ate five Big Macs in under a minute. HUFFINGTONPOST.COM

Pancake art at its best While most of us struggle to master the art of the perfect pancake, Daniel Drake has been busy showing us how it’s done.

Drake, aka Doctor Dan The Pancake Man or ‘Dancakes’, earns a living as a professional pancake artist and spends his days making colourful, delicious, creations. Drake uses coloured batter to create works of edible art inspired by movies, TV shows and cartoons.

Most recently, he’s turned his skillful hand towards the Pixar franchise and has created edible versions of characters from Inside Out, Toy Story, Up and Monsters Inc to name just a few. TELEGRAPH.CO.UK

A new girl

by Sana Zia As I walked to the school I saw a little girl sitting on the stool She was crying When I came to her, she started sighing I gave her a glass of water I saw my teacher coming, the girl was her daughter She thanked me with a laughter I said it doesn’t matter I called the doctor The doctor gave her a medicine and she felt better Then the junior staff rang the home-time bell To make the girl happy, I gave her a beautiful necklace of shells.

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Reading corner

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Materials: Directions:

• Green craft paper • Liquid glue

• Cut half inch wide and six inch long blades of grass out of the craft paper.

• Scissors

• You’ll need two blades of grass for each bookmark.

• Glue the two sides of the blade of grass together.

• Let your bookmark dry before placing in between the pages of a book.

A trip to heaven on earth — Part 1

By Ayaan Faraz Having seen the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, the White Mountains in Vermont, the Cascades to the Northwest, and various mountains all over the United States, I felt as if I had thoroughly explored the world above. However, when I came to Pakistan and saw the Margala Hills in Islamabad, I felt something was wrong. They were much too large to be called hills. Why weren’t they called the Margala Mountains? When I voiced my opinion, everyone just laughed saying that when I saw the mountains up North I would see why these were called hills. For the longest time my mom and grandmother had been trying to plan a trip to north Pakistan, and this time after much hardship a tour was arranged through the Karakoram Adventures company, which we found through my grandmother’s elderr brother.

Upon hearing our plans, my dad excitedly bought an express ticket, to come join us for the tour, which was a 12-day drive through many locations. I have to admit my initial happiness at hearing of his arrival was, “Oh finally someone who can bring my charging cable that I had left behind.” In any case he arrived with a suitcase full of warm clothes which everyone told us we would need, apparently in contrast with Islamabad’s hellish heat, and heatstroke inducing temperatures, where we were going was supposed to be a frozen paradise. Naturally I had Antarctica in mind, or at least the classical Himalaya image in my mind with white mountains and bone chilling blizzards. With these thoughts in mind we got ready at 8 in the morning and waited for the driver.

The driver, Nazir, pulled up right on time, and somehow squeezed his extremely large coaster into the narrow lane in front of our house, he then proceeded to climb on the roof and loaded all our suitcases on the top rack. This was my second time riding in a coaster, and I was not at all excited, as I feel suffocated in them, and the curtains are really annoying, when it manages to trap a myriad of flies inside. The windows don’t open all the way, there’s a constant coarse smell of cloth inside, and it’s not very comfortable, and it’s always hot and stuffy. That is my personal opinion on all coasters not just this one.

Ameel took the window seat in the first five minutes, so naturally I was in a very bad mood, and when I moved to the back row, I was greeted by a wave of flies, heat, and on opening the windows, the smell of fermented trash. Not a good start, but then again nothing I do ever has a good start. I fell asleep as Ameel “Ooohed” and “Aaahed” at everything, probably to annoy me, seeing he had the window seat.

Continued next week Share your short stories with us. Email them to hifive@tribune.com.pk

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Artwork

Arisa Memon

Ali Hussan Winner

Haniya

Labiba

Saman Winner

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Material

Ingredients: Readymade puff pastry

1 packet

Tinned cherries

1 tin

Tinned pineapple chunks

1 tin

Sugar

1 cup

• One plastic straw from your kitchen or local fast food restaurant • Scissors

Directions: • Use your fingers to press on one end of the straw to flatten it — the flatter the better.

• Cut the flattened end of the straw into a point (see below).

• Flatten it out again.

Method: • Ask an elder to preheat the oven at 250oC for 30 minutes.

• Drain the tinned fruit and place it in a basket.

• Sprinkle the sugar on the fruit and let it rest. To release the excess moisture from the fruit.

• Line a cupcake tin with butter paper.

• Roll out the puff pastry with the help of a rolling pin.

• Line the cupcake tin with the pastry.

• Add the fruit filling and then carefully place the cupcake tin into the oven for 30 minutes at 150oC. • Ask an elder to help you remove the tin from the oven.

• Let the fruit tarts cool down before you remove them from the tin.

• Serve with chilled whipped cream.

Remember kids, always get permission from your parents before you start.

It’s always a good idea to have a helper nearby.

• Now take a deep breath, put the pointed end of the straw in your mouth and blow hard into the straw. If all goes well you should hear a somewhat silly sound coming from the straw.

• Don’t stop there — try cutting the straw different sizes to see how the sound changes, or make another identical straw and add the pointed end of the new straw to the uncut end of the first straw The sound will be very different, and you will have to blow even harder, but give it a try.

What is happening: All sounds come from vibrations. That little triangle that you cut in the straw forced the two pieces of the point to vibrte very fast against each other when you blew through the straw. Those vibrations from your breath going through the straw created that strange duck-like sound that you heard.

SOURCE: SCIENCEBOB.COM