Behold! It is the Royal

Toothbrush! And here are the Royal Tooth Paste boxes!

Emperors are just like anyone else, except for being tremendously rich and powerful and being able to give orders and have them be obeyed. Other than that, they’re just like me and you.

Which means they need to brush their teeth and it also means that, when they wear out a toothbrush, they throw it away, even if it is made of ivory and has “His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil” inscribed on the handle.

The difference is that people get a lot more excited if, 125 years later, workers digging for a new subway line come across an old trash heap and fi nd his toothbrush and other royal household junk in it instead of yours.

You might say historians in Rio de Janeiro have bright smiles about the Royal Garbage Dump found as Brazil prepares to host the 2016 Olympics.

AP photo: Silvia Izquierdo

ColoradoKids CK ReporterNatalie Huttner,

Englewood

priDe, FuN at poW WoWFully adorned with

feathers, fur and fringe, 14-year-old Na-

thaniel Lakota Bearsheart clearly enjoyed moving to the beat of the drums.

“I love dancing for my native culture,” he said with a grin.

As the head boy dancer at the Denver Art Museum Friendship Pow Wow last Saturday, Nathaniel per-formed like the profes-sional he is, having danced at pow wows since he was a toddler.

The Pow Wow was a real blast for anyone who attended. You could dance along with dozens of Indians in their intertribal dances, enter an auction and win prizes, and shop at the souvenir stalls.

“This is the 24th annual celebration,” said Debbie Em-hoolah, the manager of the event.

“It’s a community outreach

for the Denver Art Museum to reach out to the Native Ameri-cans in the Denver community… There have been other earlier pow wows. The actual pow

wow has been carried down from generations from the Omaha tribe way back when that tribe had given the pow wow ceremony to the Cheyennes, and then it was passed on to all the other tribes,” she explained.

Marie Watt, a Native American artist, hosted a sewing circle in which any-one could join in making an 8x9-foot wall hanging.

“I think in the context of the sewing circle, people like to share stories, and I’m really interested in story-telling,” she said.

She has hosted a sewing circle in a pow wow before, but never actually danced in one.

Most of those who did dance, even kids like Na-thaniel Bearsheart and 10-year-old Morning Star Yazzie, a Navajo and Lakota

Indian and head girl dancer, have been doing it for years.

“Dancing feels good be-cause everyone is going to see me, and I’ll be really

happy because everybody is at the pow wow,” Yazzie said, as she joined the parade of dancers in front of the cheering crowd.

The news sounds kind of funny at fi rst: A leak-ing pipeline loading

molasses into a tanker ship in a Hawaiian seaport dumped molasses into the water.

But while your sister spilling a bottle of molasses in your kitchen might make you laugh, a quarter of a million gallons of the stuff isn’t funny at all: There is little difference be-tween molasses and oil when it comes to suffocating wild life and damaging the ecology.

Bottom-dwelling creatures like crabs, clams and lobsters were killed quickly, and clean-up crews have been picking up dead fi sh by the thousands.

People were warned to stay out of the water because the dead marine life could attract sharks to the area.

Fortunately, molasses is full of sugar and the bacteria in the ocean will eat it, cleaning the water and releasing more oxygen. But it will take several months for the sea to recover. AP photo by Dennis Oda

Silly-SouNDiNG Spill NoJoKe to HaWaiiaN FiSH

By Reid Streiker, 11, a CK Reporter from Antonito

Royal Garbage Dump found as Brazil prepares to host the 2016 Olympics.AP photo: Silvia Izquierdo

September 24, 2013

Fun and heritage Nathaniel Lakota Bearsheart in full dancing regalia Photo by

Reid Streiker

Measuring melt in the frigid South

Pine Island Gla-cier sits on the water in a part of

western Antarctica so remote that, until 2007, no airplane had been able to even land there.

But for understand-ing how melting polar ice will affect us, the glacier, and its neigh-bor, Thwaites Glacier, are very important.

Last December, a team of scientists was able to land and stay long enough in the bitter weather to begin studying the matter.

Despite its name, Pine Island Glacier is mostly a huge ice shelf that sits on the water of the bay, with a “tongue” that stretches out for 37 miles.

It, and Thwaites Glacier, prop up some of the even thicker land-based glaciers that slowly slide down towards the ocean.

Should Pine Island melt and break apart, the glaciers behind it would begin to move more quickly, and then they would be-gin to melt and break apart, too.

Since 1992, the sea level around the world has gone up by 2.2 inches, mostly because of melting ice in Antarctica and Greenland. And while 2.2 inches doesn’t sound like much in Mile High Colorado, it’s quite significant to low-lying island

nations in the South Pacific, and to coastal cities everywhere.

What scientists already knew before they made their daring trip to the ice shelf was that the Pine Island ice was melting at a high rate because the sea water it rests on was becoming warmer.

Besides the bitter weather, here are some of the challenges the scientists faced:

First of all, before you can find out how quickly the ice is melt-ing, you have to know how thick

it is now and then see how thick it is later.

To do that, you have to drill down through the shelf. An “ice shelf” might sound shallow, but, to get to the water beneath, the researchers had to use a hot-water drill to go down 1,640 feet or about a third of a mile.

The second challenge is that you can’t just measure it in one place and get the

whole picture.The ice of that huge sheet has

different thicknesses and the sea water underneath has different depths, plus currents and the amount of salt in the water is different in different places.

So they set up three campsites and drilled three different holes. Then they also measured at the edges around the land, to see how quickly the ice was melting and pulling free of the shore.

A third challenge is who wants to stick around in that frigid area to keep measuring?

There, satellites and radar came to the rescue. Not only can satellites relay informa-tion from the instruments to distant, safe, warm scientists, but, with good measurements on the ground, researchers can be more sure of measurements made by satellites and radar.

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Here, the football fans are Bronco fans

As with the rest of the Colorado public, not every CK reader is a

football fan. When we asked about the 2013

Broncos season, about a third said it didn’t matter to them.

But among our readers who said that they do care about football, the overwhelming ma-jority said that it is the Denver Broncos that they care about.

Here’s what we asked you, and what you told us:

The Broncos kick off their 2013 season Thursday night. How much do you care?

A. Go Broncos! Can’t wait for that first whistle! 46%

B. I like the NFL, but I follow a different team. 8%

C. I might pay a little bit of at-tention. 12%

D. Not at all on my radar. 34%

Here’s our next question:How much have you been

affected by the floods?A. My family is among those

seriously impacted.B. We had some real damage,

but we’re okay.C. We weren’t impacted, but

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Picture this: the bright sun beaming down, shoppers chatting with vendors as they scoop up bags full of beautiful,

organic vegetables and music playing in the background.

This may sound too good to be true, what with today’s super-stores. But this place does actually exist. It is the Louisville Farm-ers Market.

In 2008, Louivillian Kelly Williams started the market with 11 vendors.

She wanted to start something to reflect Louisville’s unique community, because traveling to Boulder’s Farmer’s Market just wasn’t working for most Louivillians.

The market now boasts 55 vendors, over 500 patrons per week, and is a staple of the Louisville community.

Louisville resident Mireya has been visit-ing the market since it opened. She says, “It’s fun to meet neighbors [at the market], plus I can bring my dog!”

That’s just the kind of community the Farmer’s Market is, a place where neighbors can mix and mingle, and so can their dogs!

But the Farmer’s Market is obviously not just a social event. There is business going on too.

Williams says that the Farmer’s Market helps people “buy local”, which then keeps Louivillians’ money in Louisville.

Also, these small businesses get good pub-licity, so people are more likely to keep buy-ing from them.

Plus, eating local, organic and pesticide free vegetables keeps the town healthy and happy!

Every vendor I talked to said that they have great business at the market and that they love the people there!

Take the owner of Ness’s Salsa: She says that she likes the “friendly, small town atmo-sphere of the market,” and is quick to add that she sells out every time.

The couple that owns Pastured Pork brings their two young kids to the market. They say that the market has a “great family environment” for their children.

If you want to have a wonderful Saturday morning this fall full of music, sunshine, chatting, and tons of different and delicious food, come on down to the Louisville Farm-er’s Market.

It runs every Saturday through Octo-ber from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Front Street in downtown Louisville.

Everyone is welcome!

Nourish your body and your community

BrainteaserOn this day in 1979, Compuserv first offered e-mail service, so our answers this week will all begin with the letter E.

1. Addis Ababa is the capital of this nation.

2. This First Lady was married at her Denver home to a man who would command the D-Day invasion of World War II.

3. This wood is used to make the black keys on a piano.

4. First name of the 1950s rock star who sang “Hound Dog.”

5. The largest of the animals known as “pachyderms.”

6. Arapaho County’s fourth most populous city, it includes Belleview Park and Swedish Medical Center.

7. Small, horse-like prehistoric animal.

8. Like the Oscars, these are the awards for best TV shows.

9. The Nile River flows mostly through this nation.

10. A female sheep.(answers on Page Four)

By Ellory Boyd,11, a CK Reporter from Louisville

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Sunny peaches on a sunny day Healthy,

fresh, local food isn’t just a health benefit: It’s

also delicious. Photo by Ellory Boyd

In “Recipe for Adventure: Paris,” by Giada De Lau-rentiis, Zia’s special hot

chocolate transported Alfie and Emilia to Paris.

In an effort to get home, they find themselves tasting new and unusual food in a cooking academy.

When I first got the book I thought it would simply be a recipe book, but instead it was a fun, adventurous story book with two reci-pes in the back.

Reading it, I felt like I was looking up at the Eiffel Tower. Appetizers to desserts are mentioned in the book, but it would be more enjoyable if she described some of the food in Paris more.

Hot chocolate is important in the story so I decided to try Giada’s recipe.

It was scrump-tious so you should try to make it too.

To pre-pare, you will need a sauce pan, whisk and spoon.

The ingredients are: 6 cups of whole milk, 1 tsp. of ground cinnamon, 1/4 tsp. of ground nutmeg, 12 oz. of chocolate, and a tbsp. of granulated sugar.

If you don’t have semi-sweet chocolate you can use milk chocolate, or if you don’t have whole milk you can use 2%.

The amount the recipe makes is 4-6 servings.

If you don’t want to use that much, I recommend only half of what the recipe requires.

This recipe takes 10-12 minutes.

To start you’ll need to mix milk, cinnamon, and nutmeg into the saucepan until it is somewhat bubbly at the top.

Put the pan on a burner at medium

high heat.Add the chopped up choco-

late and the sugar into the hot saucepan.

Stir in the chocolate and sugar until it is fully melted.

Pour your creation into your mugs.

Enjoy your chocolaty, thick and creamy bev-erage!

Trust me – it’s much better than the packaged kind!

“I have one very impor-tant question to ask you.” Professor Oliver

Asquith’s searching gaze swept over the Malone family. He lowered his voice. “Are you afraid?”

In “The Unseen World of Poppy Malone,” The Malones, a family of detec-tives, spend a week on a house-boat on Lake Travis investigat-ing UFOs above the lake.

Poppy Malone is a 10 year old girl, with the intelligence and curiosity bigger and stronger than anyone I’ve ever met.

One day, while the rest of the Malone family is busy, Poppy paddles out in her kayak to a nearby cove. She discovers something more amazing under the water than anything her family had been looking for up in the sky: a mystical world of mermaids in Lake Travis.

Her sister Franny, on the oth-er hand, is a 14-year-old, typical teenager, who doesn’t even like

water, and is not happy to be out on the lake with her family.

Franny is obsessed with fashion, and couldn’t control herself when she came across a mermaid’s magical cloak that transformed her into a mermaid herself! The kids in the story work together to cook up the perfect plan to get Franny back!

I loved this book and could barely put it down while I was reading it. Suzanne Harper’s writing style is so descriptive that I felt like I was side by side,

working with the Malones to solve this mystery the whole time. She painted a picture of action and ad-venture in every chapter.

I was on the edge of my seat the whole time worried for Franny.

I recommend this book to good readers of any age. There is no

bad language, but there are some tough vocabulary words and figurative language.

This book is nearly 300 pages of mystery, with a good amount of humor sprinkled throughout.

Girls may find the story more interesting than boys will be-cause it’s about mermaids.

I, personally, will never think about mermaids the same way ever again!

DeliciouS aDveNture MyStery! SuSpeNSe!HuMor! MerMaiDS!

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(see Page Three)10 right - Wow! 7 right - Great! 5 right - Good

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1. Ethiopia 2. (Mamie Doud) Eisenhower 3. ebony 4. Elvis 5. elephants 6. Englewood

7. eohippus 8. Emmys 9. Egypt 10. Ewe

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