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Ramazan family feast PAGE 2-3

Origin of the word ‘snob’ PAGE 4

Bird watch PAGE 6

The wise sunflower bud PAGE 8

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Method • Mash the boiled potatoes and macaron i in a big bowl.

• Add in the cheese and seasoning and mix well with your hands.

• Use the mixture to make small, oval croq uettes, no longer than your little finger.

• Once all your croquettes s are ready, crack an egg in a small bowl and beat it until it’s smooth. Meanwhile have the bread crum bs ready in a flat tray.

• Take one croquette at a time and dip it first in the egg and then roll it in the brea d crumbs, evenly coating all sides.

• Once all your croquettes s have been coated ask an elder to help you deep fry them in hot oil until they are golden brown.

• Once you take them out of the frying pan drain the excess oil on a kitchen towe l before you place them in a serving dish.

Serves 6-8 people Ingredients Watermelon Apples Bananas Grapes Mangoes

1 2, cut in cubes 6, cut in thin round slices 2 large bunches 2, cut in cubes

Method • Take the watermelon and cut it in half.

• Carefully remove a slice of skin from its rounded bottom to make it sit still.

• With the help of an elder, scoop all the red flesh out of the watermelon until it is scraped clean.

• You now have your serving bowl read y.

• Carefully cut the flesh you just scooped out into small cubes and put some of it back into your watermelon bowl. Make sure you leave space for other fruits as well.

• Refrigerate the bowl with all its contents until it’s time for iftaar.

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1. At sehri, after you are done No Rama zan spre ad without the follow is complete ing: • A bow l of dates • A jug o f water • A jug o f fresh ju ice, lemo lassi nade or

eating and drinking, right before you brush your teeth eat a tablespoon full of yoghurt. It will keep you from feeling thirsty throughout the day.

2. Eat at least three dates at sehri to keep your energy level up throughout the day.

3. Do not over-eat the moment your fast ends; begin by eating a date followed by a glass of water.

4. Drink plenty of water after your fast ends; keeping yourself hydrated keeps weakness at bay.

5. Stay active, do not spend your day lazing around or sleeping.

This is against the spirit of fasting and also brings on bouts of weakness.

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4 What would you call a sleeping bull?

A bulldozer

Fun Facts about Honeybees Honeybees, scientifically known as ‘Apis mellifera’,meaning “honey-carrying bee”, are environmentally friendly and are vital as pollinators.

Honeybees are the only insects that produce food eaten by humans.

Honey is the only food that includes all the substances necessary to sustain life, including enzymes, vitamins, minerals and water.

Why did the dinosaur cross the road?

There weren’t any chickens yet

Why are horses such lousy dancers?

They have two left feet

What do you get when you cross a parrot and a centipede?

A walkie-talkie

What did the duck say when he bought lipstick?

Put it on my bill

Honeybees have 170 odourant receptors, compared with only 62 in fruit flies and 79 in mosquitoes. Their exceptional olfactory abilities include kin recognition signals, social communication within the hive and odour recognition for finding food.

Their sense of smell is so precise that it could differentiate hundreds of different floral varieties and tell whether a flower carried pollen or nectar from metres away.

A honeybee’s wings stroke incredibly fast, about 200 beats per second, thus making their famous, distinctive buzz. A honeybee can fly for up to six miles, and as fast as 15 miles per hour.

A hive of bees will fly 90,000 miles, the equivalent of three orbits around the earth to collect 1kg of honey.

A colony of bees consists of 20,000-60,000 honeybees and one queen. Worker honey bees are female, live for about six weeks and do all the work.

Did you know?

Origin of the word ‘snob’ People often claim that the word ‘snob’ originated as an abbreviated form of the Latin phrase ‘sine nobilitate’, meaning ‘without nobility’ or ‘of a humble social background’.

Various accounts of the circumstances in which this abbreviation was supposedly used have been put forward: on lists of names of Oxford or Cambridge students; on lists of ships’ passengers, to make sure that only the best people dined at the captain’s table; and on lists of guests to indicate that no title was required when they were announced at balls and formal dinners.

The theory is ingenious but highly unlikely. The word snob is first recorded in the late 18th Century as a term for a shoemaker or his apprentice. It came to be used in Cambridge University slang some time during 1796 for ‘townsman and local merchant,’ and by 1831 it was being used for ‘person of the ordinary or lower classes’ and was popularised in 1848 by William Thackeray’s Book of Snobs.

By the early 19th Century snob was being used to mean a person with no ‘breeding’, both the honest labourers who knew their place and the vulgar social climbers who copied the manners of the upper classes. In time the word came to describe someone with an exaggerated respect for high social position or wealth who looks down on those regarded as socially inferior.

It’s quite possible that the phrase sine nobilitate may have appeared in one context or another, but it is difficult to see why it would have given rise to a word for a shoemaker.

The modern meaning of the word is completely opposite though, according to Oxford Dictionary it now means, “A person with an exaggerated respect for high social position or wealth who seeks to associate with social superiors and looks down on those regarded as socially inferior.”

SOURCE: OXFORDDICTIONARIES.COM

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Bee world record Gao Bingguo, from Tai’an City in east China’s Shandong Province, has been a beekeeper for more than 30 years. The 55-year old began the challenge last week on Monday morning, helped by other beekeepers who swamped him with large balls of bees from hundreds of hives. In order to attract the bees, Mr Gao attached dozens of queen bees to his body. He managed to break the record within an hour, the judges revealed.

“After we checked and searched the database, and witnessed it at scene, we announce Mr Gao Bingguo successfully breaks the record,” said judge Luo Xing. The previous record of 83.5kg was set by fellow beekeeper Zhang Wei from China’s northwestern Shaanxi Province.

Ten thousand bees are said to weigh approximately one kilo, so it works out that Mr Gao’s body was covered by about 1.1 million bees at one point. NEWS.SKY.COM

World wide weird

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Little automobile enthusiast

Casey Kelch, a man from Utah, US, shared the video of his curious five-year-old daughter, online, taking effortlessly to the job of tearing down the block of a Jeep 4.0 liter engine. The five-year-old girl, Charlie, uses a socket wrench to loosen the rockers on the Jeep engine.

“My five-year-old daughter learning a little automotive knowledge,” Kelch wrote in the video’s description. Kelch shared the video on Reddit, a social website, where users praised him for imparting his mechanical knowledge to his young daughter, but some cautioned the girl should be wearing gloves. “Fellow father with daughters, good on you for teaching her how to work on engines! However, used motor oil is super bad for you, especially a little kid. I realize that gloves her size would be hard to obtain,” a fellow Reddit user commented. The father explained in the video’s description that the girl’s hands were not blackened from used motor oil.”That is mostly built up old mud on her hands. We scrubbed her down about twenty minutes after this,” he wrote as an explaination. UPI.COM

Baa-maxing Phantom of Opera sheep Farmer Paul Phillips was stunned when the lamb was born with one half of his face black and the other white — just like Michael Crawford’s famous character in Phantom of Opera. He aptly nicknamed the sheep ‘The Phantom’ and thinks it has a recessive gene which has led to the unusual face markings. Since then Paul’s famous sheep has become an unlikely tourist attraction in the sleepy remote village. The Phantom was born in February this year. Paul has been breeding sheep since 2008 and his flock is accredited by Scotland’s Rural College under the Premium Sheep and Goat Health Scheme. Amy Walker, who took the first picture of The Phantom, said, “I live by the fields where he keeps his sheep. I just went out for a walk and I spotted the sheep and thought I had never seen anything with those markings before. I took some pictures and when I was looking back at them I thought ‘Oh my God, it looks like the phantom sheep. I haven’t seen the Phantom of the Opera but I am going to have to watch it now.” EXPRESS.CO.UK

Holey cheese Scientists have finally solved a mystery that has baffled them for a century — why does Swiss cheese have holes? The old wives’ tale claimed mice were responsible, but it turns out the culprit is hay. These “microscopically small hay particles” get into the milk and create holes as the liquid matures into cheese. The discovery also solves another riddle as to why the famous holes in cheeses like Emmentaler or Appenzeller have been getting smaller or disappearing completely over the last 15 years. It is because the milk has been getting cleaner. The Agroscope institute claims the transition to fully-automated, industrial milking systems had caused holes to decline.

“It’s the disappearance of the traditional bucket,” said spokesman Regis Nyffeler. Researchers at the government-funded body carried out tests in which they added different amounts of hay dust to milk. Agroscope said the subject had been under study since at least 1917. NEWS.SKY.COM

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Reading corner

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Material: • Popsicle sticks • Red, blue, green, white and purple paints

• Thick black marker • Paint brushes

Direction: • Paint one popsicle stick green then add a two-inch purple stripe on it, then add teeth, eyes and hair and your hulk bookmark is ready.

• For Ironman, paint the middle of the popsicle stick red and add a white circle to it, as shown in the picture. Add the red helmet, white eyes and a black slit for the mouth.

• For Captain America paint a popsicle stick blue and then add a two-inch white stripe in the middle. Add red lines to the white stripe. Add the details as shown in the picture and your Captain America bookmark is ready.

PHOTO CREDIT: EESHA AZAM

Bird Watch Free Birds After years of fruitless warning from his farmyard brethren of the coming Thanksgiving doom, Reggie the Turkey finds himself spared as the annual Pardoned Turkey. However, Reggie’s easy life is disrupted

by Jake, a fanatic turkey who drags him along with the insane idea of going back in time to make sure turkeys are not part of the first Thanksgiving. Through foolhardiness and luck, the pair manage to take an experimental time machine to do just that. Now in 1621 at the Plymouth colony, Reggie and Jake find themselves in the middle of a turkey clan’s struggle for survival. In doing so, their preconceptions of the world and themselves are challenged forever in a conflict from which the world will never be the same.

Chicken Run Ginger is one of the chickens at the Tweedy Egg Farm, who is capable of escaping and desperately wants to, but is constantly being held back by her incompetent partners. One night, feeling like a failure and depressed after a chicken is axed, she wanders out towards the gate, where she sees a rooster triumphantly flying through the air. After crashing and injuring his wing, Ginger takes him in and learns he’s Rocky Rhodes, a cocky American who enjoys freedom — in fact, he escaped from a circus when she found him. In exchange for protecting him when the circus arrives asking for him, Ginger makes a deal with Rocky that he will teach them to fly so they can escape. Taking advantage of the situation, Rocky woos the chickens, irritating Ginger and organiser Officer Fowler, a former officer of the Royal Air Force, in the process. Meanwhile, the Tweedys have purchased a machine to make chicken pies, intending to cook every last one of the chickens.

Penguins of Madagascar Super spy teams aren’t born — they’re hatched. Discover the secrets of the greatest and most hilarious covert birds in the global espionage business: Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private. These elite crime masters are joining forces with a chic undercover organization, The North Wind. Led by handsome and husky Agent Classified, the other members are Eva, a computer expert, Corporal, the team’s muscles and a sucker for cute penguins, and Short Fuse, a demolitions expert. Together, the two teams must stop the villainous Dr Octavius Brine from ridding the world of everything cute and cuddly.

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Artwork

Sameera Ashraf Winner

Akfa Amna Atique

Huzaifa

Zain Arshad Winner

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The wise sunflower bud

By Mahnaz Mir

Material:

• A jar large enough to fit a chicken bone • A chicken bone (A leg or drumstick works best) • Vinegar

Once upon a time there lived Mrs Patrick, who loved plants and flowers. She had also planted fruits and vegetables in her garden and it was very colourful. She took good care of her garden and watered it at the proper time. There were roses, sunflowers, pansies, foxgloves, petunias, jasmines and many other flowers in her garden. She liked all of her flowers but one which made her the happiest was a sunflower. The sunflowers used to sleep at night, like any other flower. But, wouldbloom in the morning, in the direction of the sun, which was unlike any other flower. Their petals used to bloom by the energy of the sun. Among those flowers, there lived a sunflower family. The family was very happy that day, especially the parents, because a sunflower bud was about to bloom into a flower, just as a chick is about to hatch from an egg.

The family went to sleep that night. The next morning they were very eager to see their baby bud bloom into a beautiful flower. They waited and waited but the petals didn’t open.

Soon the sky turned to dark again and the family began to worry. Why did the bud not want to blossom? Soon it started to rain and the family had to hide their faces from the water droplets. Everyone had just one question ion their mind – would the bud survive the bout of rain?

When it stopped raining and the sun came out again the family slowly turned their faces to the little bud, dreading what they might find. But what they saw amazed them. The little bud had all its petals open and there was a big smile on its lips.

“Look mommy, the baby is awake,” said one of the flowers.

The mother beamed, understanding that her baby bud was already wise, it took its time until it was ready for the world.

That day the little sunflower bud taught its family a valuable lesson: the lesson of learning the importance of being comfortable in one’s own skin and not rushing into things just because others expect you to.

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Directions: • Rinse off the bone in running water to remove any meat on it.

• Notice how hard the bone is — gently try bending it. Like our bones, chicken bones have a mineral called calcium in them to make them hard.

• Put the bone into a jar and fill it with vinegar until it covers the bone. It might be a good idea to put the lid on the jar or cover it and let it sit for three days • After three days, remove the bone. It should feel different. Now you can rinse it off and try bending it again. It will feel like a rubber bone.

What is happening: Vinegar is considered a mild acid, but it is strong enough to dissolve away the calcium in the bone. Once the calcium is dissolved, there is nothing to keep the bone hard — all that is left is the soft bone tissue.

The calcium in milk goes to our bones to make our bones stronger.

With some effort you can actually get the bone to bend.

SOURCE: SCIENCEBOB.COM