The Express Tribune hi five - March 2

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Winter Olympics 2014 PAGE 2-3

Make a fish PAGE 4

Homework station PAGE 5

Cool food facts PAGE 6

THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, MARCH 2, 2014

Hi light

2 The Winter Olympic Games is a major international sporting event that occurs once every four years. The first Winter Olympics, in 1924, was held in Chamonix, France. The original five sports were bobsleigh, curling, ice hockey, Nordic skiing and cross-country skiing. The Games were held every four years from 1924 until 1936, after which they were interrupted

by World War II. The Olympics resumed in 1948 and this year, the Winter Olympics were held in Sochi, Russia.

e Winter Winte Games has changed chan ed over o e time ts The time. Spo Sports have been added and some of them, such as Alpine skiiing have earned a permanent spot on the Olympic programme. Others (such as curling) have been discontinued and later reintroduced, or permanently discontinued (such as military patrol).

Curling is a sport in which players slide stones tones on a sheet of ice towards a target area which is segmented into four concentric (sharing a centre) rings. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called rocks, across the ice curling sheet towards the house (a circular target marked on the ice). Each team has eight stones and the purpose is to gather the highest score for a game. Points are scored for the stones resting closest to the centre of the house at the conclusion of each end, which is completed when both teams have thrown all of their stones. A game may consist of eight or ten ends.

The Winterr Olym Olympics mpics has been h hosted osted d on tthree continents by 11 different countries. The United States has hosted the Games four times; France has been the host three times, Austria, Canada, Japan, Italy, Norway and Switzerland have hosted the Games twice. Germany, Yugoslavia and Russia have hosted the Games once. Pyeongchang, South Korea, has been selected to host the 2018 Winter Olympics. No country in the southern hemisphere has hosted or even been an applicant to host the Winter Olympics. This is mainly because of the dependence on weather, and the traditional February timing of the games falls in the middle of the southern hemisphere summer.

Twelve countries — Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States have sent athletes to every Winter Olympic Games. Six of those — Austria, Canada, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the United States — have earned medals at every Winter Olympic Games, and only one — the United States — has earned gold at each Games. This year, for the second time a Pakistani made it to the Winter Olympics (read about him on page 3).

d on o ice i in in Ice hockey is a team sport played r which skaters use sticks to shoott a hard ppo one ent’s rubber hockey puck into their opponent’s ntrries e , net to score points. In some countries, ess and such as Canada, the United States nown those of Europe like Sweden, it iss kknown y iiss us y’ used ed as ‘hockey’. The name ‘ice hockey’ era ally in countries where ‘hockey’ generally ua ally conrefers to field hockey. A team usually rdss, three sists of four lines of three forwards, alie es. Five pairs of defensemen and two goalies. p an nd down n members of each team skate up and nd score the ice, trying to take the puck and m. Each E a goal against the opposing team. o stop team has a goaltender who triess to al. the puck from going into the goal.

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3 Alpine A e skiing is the sport of sliding down snowcover e hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. covered It iss al ls commonly known as downhill skiing. also Alpine e skiing is different from skiing as it has a rele a releasable lock down heel which makes it easierr to ski downward on slopes. Alpine skiing is pop p popular wherever there is a combination of snow a and mountain slopes.

Hi light

The T h 2014 Winter Wi Ol Olympics, i officially ffi i ll kknown as the XXII Olympic Winter Games, were held in Sochi, Russia. Held between for 7–23 February 2014, opening rounds in certain events were held on the eve of the opening ceremony. At the opening cermony more than 3,000 people from artistic groups participated in dance, ballet, acrobatic and circus performances which was watched by a 40,000 strong audience at Sochi’s Fisht Olympic Stadium.

Mohammad Karim at the opening ceremony

Fi k ti iis a sportt and d activity tii it iin which hi Figure skating individuals, duos or groups perform on figure skates (type of skates) on ice. It was the first winter sport included in the Olympics, in 1908. The blade has a groove (a sharp cut) on the bottom creating two distinct edges — inside and outside. In figure skating, the skater should skate on one edge of the blade and not on both at the same time, which is referred to as a flat edge. Skates used in single and pair skating have a set of large, jagged teeth called toe picks on the front of the blade.

Mohammad Karim went dashing through the snow in Sochi this year, raising the bar higher for Pakistan’s future participants at the Winter Olympics. Although he never managed to secure a place on the victory stand, he was the sole representative for the country in the snow-covered sports arena. The now 18-yearold athlete first imagined himself riding down snow slopes when as a child he and his cousin along with a couple of friends admirably looked upon skiers in his native village in Naltar, Gilgit-Baltistan. Karim instantly knew he too would one day don the colourful suit and participate in the winter sport, but little did he know that it would be in front of an international audience in Sochi. It was his determination to embrace the sport that fueled his uncle to handcraft wooden skies for him, and his elder brother to secure second-hand ski boots from a local market. Equipped with the necessary gear, he happily took to the slopes with time to practise during the school winter vacations. At sochi, the Naltar-born natural skier — who even before turning skiing into a career path used it to travel from one place to another in his perpetually snow-covered hometown — made Pakistan proud by finishing at the 71st position out of 109 skiers in the giant salom category.

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Activity

Do you ever see shapes in the objects around you? Everything around us is made up of a combination of shapes. In this activity, Ayesha Mehmood shows you how to create a fish from ovals.

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The Shape Fish

Step 1 Fold the paper twice and draw half and oval.

Step 2

Step 3

Fold another piece of paper and draw a diagonal line across it for the fish tail.

Fold the paper again and draw a diagonal line to get two more triangles. These are for the fish gills.

Supplies needed: • Card paper • Pencil • Scissors • Scale • Glue • Marker

Step 4 Fold a white piece of paper and make one small circle.

Step 5 Cut all of the drawn shapes with a scissor.

Step 7 Safety First: Always use scissors with adult supervision.

Cut an angle in the oval. This is going to become the fish mouth. For more detailing, you can make teeth and glue them.

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Step 6 Place the shapes and glue them.

Step 8 Glue both the oval shapes. Your fish is now ready!

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

Rainbow delight You’ll either want Katy Cartee Haile’s awesome hair, or her house. This lady with multi-coloured hair, has turned her house into a museum for her favourite childhood toy, Rainbow Brite. Back in the 80s, a little girl called Wisp brought colour to the world as Rainbow Brite. Along with her Colour Belt, magnificent horse Starlite and friends Twink and the Colour Kids, she had an extensive toy line, books, cartoon series, movie and even her own cereal. Little girls like Katy Cartee Haile loved her as many love Brave or Dora now. Receiving her first Rainbow Brite doll for her fifth birthday, Katy, a dog walker in North Carolina, once dressed up as the champion of colour herself for Halloween in a homemade costume. Katy throughout her life has collected toys and pieces of Rainbow Brite and now, 34, she has over 1,500 items in her Rainbow Brite Museum. Up a rainbow painted staircase and set against walls decorated to resemble clear blue skies, you’ll find glass cabinets and shelves containing rare and long since discontinued toys and collectables.

Through a rainbow curtain there’s even a window with Rainbow Brite drapes above a bed with a matching duvet set. A rainbow house it is. METRO.CO.UK

World wide weird

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Anything for chocolate

No one likes it when their chocolate bar gets stuck in a vending machine but few would go to the extremes this man did to get it. Unwilling to accept that his $1 (Rs107) Twix was lost, Robert McKevitt, from Iowa, in the United States, decided to use an 8,000lb (3,628kg) forklift to get it out. Unsurprisingly the candy bar fell down, along with two more, after the vending machine was shaken by the heavy machinery. There is still some dispute over how the forklift was used, with McKevitt’s previous employer Polaris Industries alleging he lifted the machine up and dropped it six times. He denied this, but still got fired for his inappropriate use of company property. “That machine was trouble,” the 27-year-old said. “They fired me, and now I hear they have all new vending machines there.”

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Homework station Pleasant surprise A curious father was left stunned after discovering where his young son was going on his daily walks. He noticed that his son left their house in the rural Philippines every day for two weeks, carrying a backpack and one day he decided to accompany him. The pair stopped on the side of the road and moments later a group of starving stray dogs came towards them. His son told him he had been taking the trips to feed the dogs, who appear to be infected with mange, a skin disease caused by parasitic ticks. Remembering when he first saw the animals, he explained, “I’m embarrassed to say I was pretty disgusted. But my son changed my perspective entirely.” The proud father now supplies the dog food for his son and hopes to treat the stray dogs for their skin condition and eventually find a home for them. He added his son, who has been taking precautions to disinfect himself after interacting with the strays, has ambitions to open his own animal shelter. METRO.CO.UK

What’s the best way to get your child to do their homework? Turn their desk into a mission control centre of course. That’s what Jeff Highsmith did to inspire his son to do well in his studies. “With the start of school my son needed a homework desk, I wanted to build him a great one, so I included an extra feature,” he said. Taking inspiration from the control centres, Highsmith built a hidden section in his son’s new desk that when revealed showed bright LED lights and emitted sounds. The desk, which was encoded using a Raspberry Pi computer, also includes an iPad for displays.

He did all this to inspire and motivate his son to study thinking the light and sounds would make him want to keep doing his homework. Great idea, don’t you think? METRO.CO.UK

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Did you know?

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Word Origins Difference between farther and further Many people use ‘further’ and ‘farther’ interchangeably, but, in fact, they mean slightly different things. ‘Farther’ refers to a physical distance, while ‘further’ refers to a figurative distance. So, when wondering how many more miles or kilometres to a particular destination, you’d say, “How much farther to the gas station?” On the other hand, when speaking of a figurative measure, you should use ‘further’. For instance, “Nothing could be further from the truth.”

Probably the best way to remember the distinction between ‘farther’ and ‘further’ is to think about where you’d use the word ‘furthermore’.

In this case, you use it much like ‘in addition to’, which is tied to something figurative. So just remember ‘farther’ equals ‘physical’ and ‘further’ equals ‘figurative’.

How to say ‘happy birthday’ in different languages Afrikaans

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Gelukkige Verjaarsdag

Albanian

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Gëzuar Ditëlindjen

Basque

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Zorionak zuri

Croatian

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Sretan ro endan

Dutch

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Van Harte Gefeliciteerd

French

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Bon anniversaire

Galician

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Feliz aniversario

Hawaiian

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Hau oli lā hānau

Hungarian

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Boldog születésnapot

Italian

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Buon compleanno

Latin

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Felix dies natalis

Polish

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Sto Lat

Sardinian

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Auguri

Venetian

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Bon compleano

r e h t r a F and r e h t r u F

Cool facts McDonald’s fast food chains employ over 1.5 million people around the world.

Different parts of the world have their own local cuisine. The diets and general food habits of various cultures depend on social, religious, economic and safety factors as well as the availability of different foods.

Examples of food and cuisine that are popular or famous in certain areas of the world include hummus in the Middle East, apple pie in the USA, raw fish in Japan, cheese in France, roast meat and vegetables in England, curry in India and tortillas in Mexico.

There are around 2,000 different plant types that humans use to cultivate food.

Examples of popular vegetables include lettuce, carrots, asparagus, cauliflower, broccoli, spinach, potatoes and onions.

The sweet potato is a root vegetable and is not closely related to the potato.

Cutting onions releases a gas which causes a stinging sensation when it comes into contact with your eyes. Your body produces tears to dilute the irritant and remove it from your eyes.

Pumpkins are usually labeled as vegetables but they contain seeds and are technically fruit.

China is the largest producer of garlic, producing over 10 million tonnes in 2008 and accounting for over 75% of world output.

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Fun & games

Crossword

How carefully did you read this week’s issue of HiFive? If you think you are upto the task, try to solve our special crossword. The answers are all over HiFive! Put on your thinking caps, it is time to put the old noggin to work!

Across 2. Ice hockey is a team sport played on ice in which skaters use sticks to shoot a hard rubber -------— puck into their opponent’s net to score points.

3. The sweet potato is a ----------— vegetable and is not closely related to the potato.

7. The diets and general food habits of various cultures depend on social, religious, economic and safety factors as well as the ------------— of different foods.

9. Figure -----------— is a sport and activity in which individuals, duos, or groups perform on figure skates (type of skates) on ice.

11. Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding ---------— snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings.

12. There are around 2000 different plant types that humans use to ----------— food.

14. Curling is a sport in which players slide --------— on a sheet of ice towards a target area which is segmented into four concentric (sharing a centre) rings.

15. The Winter Olympic Games is a major international sporting event that occurs once every -------— years.

Down 1. Examples of popular vegetables include lettuce, carrots, asparagus, cauliflower, broccoli, spinach, ----------— and onions.

4. Cutting -----------— releases a gas which causes a stinging sensation when it comes into contact with your eyes.

5. The original --------— sports were bobsleigh, curling, ice hockey, Nordic skiing and cross-country skiing.

6. Pumpkins are usually labeled as -----------— but they contain seeds and are technically fruit.

8. China is the largest ----------— of garlic.

10. Examples of popular ---------— include apples, oranges, pears, strawberries, peaches, bananas, apricots and grapes.

13. Different parts of the world have their own ---------— cuisine.

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