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NEW BOOK BY SAVIOUR PIROTTA THE BUCCANEERING BOOK OF PIRATES Go on daring raids, follow treasure maps, unearth buried chests full of stolen booty, but beware of ghostly ships that appear out of the mist!

DOLPHINS By Nina Harris Illuminated sea water ripples. An enslaved dolphin twists and bounds resembling a rhythmic gymnast. Droplets of water cascade from sandpapered skin. The sun waits, smudged yellow, silhouetting the air-bound mortal.

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lunch box recipes or ideas! Write how to make it – take a picture and email it to primetimesnz@hotmail. com. If we publish your work, we will give you a free year subscription to Prime Times!

All young bodies need energy to help them do all the things young kids like to do...

PREPARATION: BILLYGOAT’s YUMMY MUFFINS 2 cups flour 2 tablespoons baking powder 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup chopped nuts 125 grams butter (melted) 1 egg 1 cup milk 1 ½ cups frozen berries 1/2 cup coconut

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1. Preheat oven to 200oC 2. Put flour, baking powder in bowl, add sugar, nuts and coconut – mix well. 3. In separate bowl, whisk together melted butter, milk and egg. 4. Make a well in the dry ingredients and pour in butter mixture – add berries. 5. Lightly fold ingredients together, the less mixing the better – see if you can do it in 12 strokes. 6. Spoon mixture into muffin tins and bake for 20 minutes or until lightly brown.

Tried and True This recipe was given to me by a good friend called “Billygoat” – funny name I know! But they are the best muffins ever and work everytime! Yummy for morning tea!

the Importance of milk BENEFITS Milk provides a unique NUTRIENTS 1. Calcium ___ combination of over 10 2. Protien ___ essential nutrients which 3. Carbohydrate ___ offer a range of benefits in4. Vitamin A ___ cluding supporting healthy bones, teeth, eyesight and BENEFITS more. See if you can help A. For healthy eyesight B For growth and repair Gerry match the nutrients C. For healthy teeth and bones with their benefits. D. For energy

study hard You need energy as well to help your brain work. See how well your brain is working to see if you can unscramble the muddled up letters.

CICALUM=_______ MINAVITA = ________ HYDOBCARrate = ___________ torpEIN = _______

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ED SHEeRAN singer-songwriter Two of our Prime Times readers, Teva and Emerson, went along to see Ed Sheeran in concert. Here’s what they thought... Ed Sheeran performed at Vector Arena and we were lucky enough to get tickets. When the lights went down, the 12,000 crazy fans went wild. He sung most of his songs from his brilliant album +. One of our favourite parts was the universal "shhh’s", that was how Ed made us all get quiet. Can you imagine what it sounds like when 12,000 are saying shush? Emerson’s favourite song was "Small Bump" and Teva’s was "Grade 8", which he rapped like a true gangster! One of the things that made this concert special was the fact that he performed all by himself with his guitar and his loop pedal. Ed was talent ? spotted by OW U KN He sang in a O Y Jamie Foxx. DID E local church n d She no er s bor y a s w o choir from the n d r E gs fo an wrote ua r b e r t "Litt o age of four 17th F 91 le th ne direc wo ings 19 t ion, " agai and "Ove n". r es his Ed nam , one s guitar is e of th m el! Nig called

“If i every have backup dancers, i want them to be the penguins off madagascar!”

Flynn, me and Caitlin with our Ed Sheeran tickets

Outside the Vector Arena

At the concert!

what’s a loop pedal? A loop pedal is what Ed Sheeran uses instead of a back up band. It records short passages of music and plays them back in a repeating loop. So when Ed begins a song he plays some chords and oohs and aaahs into the loop pedal and these play in the background while he plays and sings the main tune. It’s pretty amazing!

Snuggling up with Ed (well a cardboard cut out of him at least!)

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Freestyle skiing has two main parts, Slopestyle and Half-Pipe or SuperPipe. Slopestyle consists of a course made up of jumps, rails and boxes. They use all these objects to do tricks off. The picture below is what a half-pipe looks like, skiers go across the pipe and use the walls as jumps to do tricks off.

FREESTYLE SKIING

FUN FACTS:

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The type of skis used for freestyle skiing are called ‘Twin Tips’.

Half-Pipe

The second best freestyle skier in the world is from NZ! His name is Jossi Wells.

Slopestyle

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Follow this link for a sick skiing video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmbZLbJkg1A 1

One of the biggest freestyle skiing events is the Winter X Games.

Skiing has been around for over 3000 years!

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Awesome Animals Who’s the tallest? No really, I’m way taller than you!

We searched the internet to FInd you some animals who we believe are awesome, Either because of what they can do or simply how funny they look.

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I didn’t do it

It wasn’t me, honest!

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I think I can see what the problem is, you have something caught in your teeth!

Take Down!

Tap out when you want to...

Lunch Anyone? Hurry up mum, I’m getting hungry!

A skateboarding owl? Real or photoshopped?

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SKATER HARRY BOYbrownE -SAINTY When did you start skating? I started skating when I was around 2 or 3. My uncle left his skateboard around, I started using it and then he gave it to me. What’s your worse skating injury so far? When I was skating in England at Burnley indoor skate park the board hit under my helmet and I got stitches in my head. There have been many great skaters, who do you look up to? Killan Martan and Danny Way Tony Hawk. Where is your favourite place to skate in New Zealand? Victoria park because of the big wall. What is your stance when riding a skateboard? A regular and I push mongo. What brand board are you using at the moment? Element Levi brown. Do you know the exact number of Skateboards you have owned? I’ve kept my trucks from the USA but my board has changed an average of 4 boards a year for five years so 20. Would you like to be a professional skater and where are you hoping it takes you? Yes I would love to. I hope it takes me travailing around the world. 14

What is your favourite trick to do when skating? Early grab double grab 180. If you could be the combination of two animals what would you be? A turtle and a cheetah because of the hard shell and speed. If you could be on any tv show, what would it be? I would be on family guy. Favourite movie? Real Steel Do you do any other sports other than Skating? Rugby and squash If you could do anything in the world, what would you want to do? Skate all the time and have a sponsor and help out my poor father. What’s music is on your I-pod at the moment? Eminem, Skrillex ACDC

DID YOU KNOW?

Tony Hawk is the most well known skater in the world. He is the most recognisable person in America. He is most well known for being the first person to do a 900 on a skateboard, which is two and a half revolutions on a skateboard. He also had his own video games set up in the Tony Hawk series.

weird and wonderful INTERESTING FACTS We’ve hunted high and low to find you some interesting facts about all sorts of things - we hope you enjoy!

There are so many weird and wonderful things going on in the world, we thought we’d bring you some of our favourites. Have you ever done anything weird and wonderful? If so, send it into the team at Prime Times and you may find yourself on these very pages!

BRAIN FOOD

Food passes through the giant squid’s brain on the way to its stomach.

HOW COLD?

LONGEST NAME

Longest officially recognized place name is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu, with 85 letters. It's the name for a hill, 305 metres (1,000 ft) high, close to Porangahau, New Zealand.

It can get so cold in Siberia that your breath can turn to ice in midair.

VAN GOGH

HE DOES WHAT?

The Bombardier beetle shoots boiling liquid as a defense mechanism.

According to legent, Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting his whole life. Now his paintings are one of the worlds most sought after. In 1990 one of his paintings was sold for $82.5 million US dollars!

HE SWALLOWED A WHAT?

Painted in 1890 this sold 100 years later for over $80 million

DID YOU KNOW

It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.

TERRIFYING TARANTULAS

A large python can swallow a large animal whole here one has swallowed a sheep!!

Some tarantulas can also shoot the “hairs” off their legs which can pierce human skin and cause great discomfort.

DID YOU KNOW? A sneeze travels 100 miles an hour.

BEAUTIFUL BLOOM

The world’s biggest flower, found in the Indonesian rain forest, can grow wider than a car tire .

MIRACLE MICE

Did you know that a mice can fit through a hole the size of a ball point pen?

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THE AMAZING Tyrannosaurs DID YOU KNOW? The tyrannosaurus rex is one of the most well known dinosaurs, due to its size, ferocious nature and regular appearances in movies and tv Tyrannosaurus’ comes from the Greek words meaning ‘tyrant lizard’, while the word ‘rex’ means ‘king’ in Latin.

T. Rex had very bad breath... Some experts think the shards of rotten, bacteria-infested meat lodged in its numerous teeth gave T. Rex a “septic bite,” which may have infected (and eventually killed) wounded prey.

WEAPONS Massive jaws with 50-60 bladelike teeth, some up to 9 inches long!

FAMOUS T Rex Barney (from Barney and Friends) Rex (from Toy Story) Can you name any movies which have starred t rex? See page 2 for answers

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s get Late last year Prime Times was invited to be a judge at Helensville Primary School, ginger beer making competition. It was an excellent day and I must say we have never tasted so many delicious ginger beers ever! Here's how they did it!

The first thing you have to do if you want to make ginger beer is to make what's called a bug. This is the thing that will help make your ginger beer fizz.

You can always tell a great ginger beer by the fizz!

3. Take off the heat and add the rest of the water and the lemon juice. First the class took part in a taste testing exercise to see which brands of ginger beer they liked the best.

4. Without disturbing the sediment, strain the ginger beer bug liquid through 2 layers of scalded muslin. 5. Add this liquid to the sugared water.

2. Cover with a cloth (the sort of material that you would use to strain jelly through as the bug needs to breathe).

Great home made ginger beers, labels and all...

6. Pour the mixture into clean bottles, cap tightly and leave to stand for 2 days, or until it starts to fizz.

3. Let stand for 24 hours.

Ingredients 300 ml lukewarm water 1.25 liters water 250 g sugar 1 lemon, juice

2. Heat gently while stirring until the sugar dissolves.

Ingredients 3/4 teaspoon dried yeast 1 teaspoon ground ginger 1 teaspoon sugar

4. After this feed the bug every day for 10 days with 1 tspn of ground ginger and 1 tspn of sugar.

To Make the BEER

1. Put 1 litre of the water and the sugar in a saucpan.

To Make the BUG!

1. Mix the yeast, ground ginger, sugar and lukewarm water together in a large glass jar.

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7. After this, it must be kept in a cool place or the fridge to prevent the tops blowing. Both the taste and the smell were tested and rated.

8. Then it is time to drink. The ultimate test is in the taste, and it tastes good!

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Not counting music videos (which due to licensing restrictions are often shown only in the U.S. on YouTube), the most viewed video of all time is the classic “Charlie bit my finger,” with an astounding 282,151,886 (at the time of writing).

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YouTube was invented by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim out of a garage in Menlo Park USA. The inventors became millionaires when they sold their invention for 1.65 billion dollars to the search engine Google.

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what I mean. He rushed to the nearest toilet but it was full! He looked around scanning the building, and then he saw it. A porta-loo! But this was no ordinary porta-loo. Instead of an old blue rectangle with a smelly unclean toilet, it was covered with sparkly silver and gold paint. On the roof it had a low-glow light with two yellow antennas either side. In the 20 years that Bob had been living in the retirement village he had never seen this unusual contraption.

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the adventures of mr big BY TEVA DICKINSON Once upon a time there was the world’s most super Super-hero. He was the most handsome Super-Hero anyone had ever met. He had slick golden hair, a curly moustache, pumping muscles, shining eyes and sparkling teeth. But that was 50 years ago. Mr. B.I.G (meaning Become Incredibly Gigantic) now known simply as Bob, is very different. His slick golden hair is nowhere to be seen and his curly moustache has now turned into a big fluffy Santa beard. His pumping muscles have slowly transformed into rolls of jelly-like flab and his shining eyes now only shine once in a blue moon behind thick glasses, and for his teeth, well they’re just plain horrible. This particular day was no different to any other. Bob lived in a retirement village and was out playing bowls with his friends again. Since hanging up his cape of honour he was now treated no differently than any other 78 year old. Everyone seemed to have forgotten that he was once the world’s greatest super hero who had saved the world too many times to remember. © 2013 Viaco iacom iaco m Overse seas ass Holdi o ngs g C. C V. Al Alll Rights Righ R ghts ht Res R erve erved. d. TE AGE TEEN GE MUTA UTANT NT NINJA NINJA TUR TURTLES ES andd allll rel related ated tit titles, les, log logos os and char h acte t rs are trade trademark markss of Via Viacom com Over O seas eas Hol Holding dingss C.V C.V .

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In the middle of his game he felt a slight tingling sensation down below… well you know

Bob felt so relieved and raced over to the porta-loo. He stepped inside and shut the door behind him. “Aaaaah, that feels better,” he said happily. While washing his hands at the sink he noticed that the inside was no ordinary porta-loo either. For starters the toilet was actually clean, and it felt a lot bigger from the inside than it looked on the outside. On one wall there four paintings; one of a cave man being chased by a wooly mammoth, one of a war scene from World War II, another was a painting of futuristic cars hovering rather than driving, and the fourth was from the time of Superheroes. On the other wall there was a clock,one of those old fashioned ones that goes, “tick, tock, tick, tock.” Below the clock there were a set of buttons, one yellow, one red, one green. Bob went for a closer look…. The time on the clock read, ‘five minutes past twelve’, but in the middle were the numbers 128,000.BC. “Strange,” thought Bob as he ran his fingers gently over the clock face. “I wonder what these buttons are for.” Foolishly he pressed all the buttons one at a time. “Whiz! Whiz!” Bob heard a strange sound. The porta-loo had begun to buzz and shake crazily. Bob panicked and dropped to the floor and held on for dear life. Then as quickly as it started, all went quiet...

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