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Shoppers have deserted car dealerships across Southeast Asia since the region's currency crisis began last summer, while investors who have lost fortunes in plummeting stock markets have flooded the used-car market with late-model luxury cars.
The world's auto giants do not seem to care. Even though some industry experts insist they should pull back, General Motors and Ford Motor are busy building huge new assembly plants in Thailand and preparing to open up to five more factories in Southeast Asia and China. And Toyota and Honda are dealing with the crisis with temporary production cutbacks rather than changing their basic strategic plans.
Although the tiger economies of Southeast Asia have turned to alley cats this fall, the American and Japanese auto makers that have rushed to build factories say they are mostly undaunted. While auto executives weigh whether to retrench, none have yet closed a factory or canceled expansion plans. Just as amateur investors mainly stood pat as world markets gyrated last week, auto makers insist they are in the Southeast Asian markets for the long haul, and some even see silver linings in the economic storm clouds.
''When the currencies settle down, as they will, I think they may have a greater competitive advantage,'' said Alexander J. Trotman, chairman and chief executive of Ford. The United States is even sending cars, not soldiers, to Vietnam. Ford's new factory there opens on Thursday.
But some Wall Street analysts worry about this Panglossian view. ''This industry is suicidal,'' said Maryann N. Keller, an auto analyst at Furman Selz, a New York investment banking and brokerage firm.
She is concerned because the auto industry already has more worldwide capacity than it needs and more factories continue to be built. G.M.'s factory in Rayong, Thailand, is scheduled to open in early 1999 and now has steel girders in place but no roof. ''They should just stop it,'' Ms. Keller said. ''This isn't going to be a 12-month problem in Thailand.''
Indeed, John F. Smith Jr., G.M.'s chairman and chief executive, said in an interview published on Monday in Automotive News that the company was weighing whether to alter its plans for the Thai factory, perhaps by building less expensive cars.
Mr. Trotman, like other auto executives, reasons that the region's falling currencies will make wages, investments and locally bought parts less expensive in dollar terms. But at the same time, demand for new vehicles has plunged from Thailand to South Korea to Indonesia, while the remaining sales yield fewer dollars and yen in profits for auto makers because the local currencies have weakened.
Japanese auto makers also remain optimistic. ''We are not changing our strategies in response to a short-term economic recession,'' said Takanori Sonoda, head of Honda's Detroit office.
The traditional response to a glut of locally produced cars -- to increase exports -- may not work in Southeast Asia. Neither Honda nor Toyota plans to start selling cars built in Southeast Asia in the United States, mainly because the smaller, stripped-down cars built there are more suited to developing markets. Any increased auto exports from Southeast Asian countries would most likely be sold in other emerging markets, if demand remains strong enough.
G.M., which aims to double its share of the Asia-Pacific market to 10 percent by 2005, is convinced that Southeast Asia is still worth betting on. ''You have to roll the dice,'' said J. T. Battenberg 3d, president of G.M.'s auto parts division, which since 1992 has opened 23 factories in the region -- 15 in China, 4 in South Korea and 3 in Malaysia and 1 in Indonesia. ''A country that may seem to be not a good investment today -- maybe North Korea or Vietnam -- tomorrow may be.''
Not only is G.M. completing work on its factory in Thailand and preparing to build Buick Regals in Shanghai, it is negotiating for permission to add mini-van production in Shanghai and to open at least two more assembly plants in China.
One would be a joint venture in Shenyang in northeastern China with a local partner, First Auto Works, to develop a truck-based vehicle. G.M. is also lobbying the Chinese to choose it, not Honda, to build a small ''people's car'' in Guangzhou, said a G.M. spokesman, Michael Meyerand.
Ford is also seeking 10 percent of the Asian market within 10 years, and it already has factories in Malaysia and Taiwan. After its new Vietnam factory opens on Thursday, its van factory in China opens in December and next summer it is scheduled to turn out its first pickup trucks in Thailand. It may also add a factory in the Philippines.
Conspicuously absent from large-scale production is the Chrysler Corporation, which has four, mostly smaller factories in East Asia. Last year, Chrysler dropped plans to open a factory in Vietnam when the Government allowed a dozen other auto makers to build assembly plants, despite the country's small market for cars.
Long before the region's current problems, Chrysler decided to expand in South America instead of East Asia because South American governments imposed fewer trade restrictions and were not using heavy government assistance to local companies, as Indonesia and Malaysia have done.
In the short term, Wall Street analysts said that while the end of Southeast Asia's remarkable economic climb was bad news for the Big Three, the impact on profits would be minimal. ''The earnings out of Asia might be 2 or 3 percent of total earnings,'' said David Bradley, an analyst at J. P. Morgan Securities Inc. And the stocks of the Big Three have not been hit any harder than the overall market in the last week or so.
The other danger is that the turmoil in Southeast Asia will spread to other developing markets, particularly in South America, pushing countries like Brazil and Argentina into a recession. The Big Three have bigger operations there, and thus have much more to lose.
But in Southeast Asia, Japanese auto makers are likely to take the hardest hits because they have more factories. Honda has cut production in half at its large factory in Thailand, and Toyota has gone from two shifts working seven days a week to one shift working three days at both its Thai factories and reportedly is considering shutting the factories for the rest of the year. The direct effect of the Asia crisis could trim the Japanese auto industry's operating profits by up to 5 percent, estimated Stephen Volkmann, a Tokyo-based analyst with Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter. Auto sales in Thailand plummeted 77 percent in September.
Auto makers might be forced to invest more in a poorly performing region because the factories that produce their cars tend to be joint ventures. Their smaller, local business partners may run into financial trouble and turn to deeper foreign pockets to keep factories open.
While auto makers remain optimistic, not everyone agrees they should be. Thailand is headed for a recession, and elsewhere in the region, growth is slowing, said Nariman Behravesh, chief international economist at Standard & Poor's DRI.
''You get caught up in the euphoria and your risk tolerance goes up,'' Mr. Behravesh said. ''There is going to have to be some shake-out in the auto industry in Asia sometime in the next three to five years.''


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Hello readers, welcome here in my little nest. Today I want to share another little light decorating with you. Light as in unassuming, easy, and quick. But definitely beautiful, effective and with wow factor. And this time it was totally free too! Yup, I used mother nature's gift and she gives it in return for nothing else but appreciation and consideration.
Look at my view from my living room.
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Cow's parsley in a big galvanized bucket. This bunch is huge. Huge as in man-sized, and I like it. Where else could one pull off such a giant bouquet as outside on the garden table. This baby makes a statement, I tell you. A statement about enjoying beauty where you can find it. About how wonderful nature is and that she is the best crafter of us all. And about how we should be grateful for the bounty that is all around us.
This weed, because that's what it is basically, or that's what we have called it since it chooses her own place to grow, is called Fluitekruid in Dutch. Which means 'whistle weed'. I think that is a good name, because seeing a big meadow filled with it (or probably lined with it), makes you want to lay down in the grass and whistle up to the skies. Doesn't this lacy flower just ooze lazy summer days.
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Photography September 13, 2017 Wilko van de Kamp
Do you think that creative writing is something you can learn? Many of the aspiring authors who join my Write a Book in a Week program ask me this question. They know they have a story to tell. Most of them are afraid they don't have what it takes to release their thoughts into a real book.
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Why not? Because creativity is a gift. It comes from within, and is personal to you as an individual. You either find it within yourself and work with it, or you don't. It's much the same with writing or painting. You can allow the creative force within you to come out, or not. All a teacher can offer to do is help channel that energy.
Carl Jung, the father of psychoanalysis, speaks of the creative instinct. Humans have innate instincts, which cause us to strive, build and create. So, if creativity is a basic human instinct, isn't it available to all human beings? Jung says that the creative artist is one who has unusual access to the subconscious.
The subconscious is the key to access our creative energy. I've been reading a fascinating book, The Tao of Photography, by Dr. Philippe Gross and Dr. S.I. Shapiro. They're both psychologists and photographers. Interesting career combination. A photographer myself, I love capturing images. It helps me concentrate on my surroundings, which sets the mood for writing.
The book applies the teachings of the Chuang-tzu, to the art of photography. It speaks of Little Understanding and Great Understanding. I love how those states of being are described:
Great understanding is broad and unhurried. Little understanding is cramped and busy. (Chuang-tzu)
Our daily lives are filled with 'little understanding.' Look at your calendar or todo list. It's filled with meetings, errands and things to do! We are running around with our heads down concentrating on the small stuff (cramped and busy). What if we look up and around ourselves? What if we look inside ourselves? Great understanding is broad and unhurried. Think about what we could see and what doors may open.
Slow down and shift your focus not only to observing everything about life. When you look inside yourself, that's when you have a chance of tapping into your creative spirit. Unless you do, no amount of concentration on technique (which can be thought) will ever help us listen to our inner voice. After all, aren't writers always told they must find their own voice? To do that, we have to learn to listen and pay attention to the outer life surrounding us as well as our own inner life. It's not a trick you can learn.
Suppose you do actually get past that cramped and busy stage. What will you find? If you're lucky, you might tap into something wonderful… your true creative spirit. It's about getting out of our conscious way. Letting the images, words, music, ideas and emotions flow. When we do that, we have something to work with.
In writing, that's what the first draft is all about. This part is easy, if you allow it. I teach authors to do this in less than a week. I take an idea out of their head and down on paper. Then the more rational, analytical part of the brain takes charge. It refines what was created. Next, I help them by showing them the techniques of their craft. This is where the product of their creativity gets better and better.
But without that first draft there would have been nothing to work with. Nothing to improve upon. Maybe a first draft of a book should be a prerequisite for entry into my Write a Book in a Week course? (It currently isn't – anyone who wants to release their book dream can join.) What do you think?
You can learn more about my author program here, and or download a copy of my Author Success Blueprint ebook to get started with the basics.
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This February 2019 issue marks the beginning of our 10th anniversary year. And what a 10 years it has been! When Vardhan and I stepped across the corridors from Top Gear and Femina respectively to put together a new magazine for Worldwide Media, little did we know what a challenge and a joy it would be.
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Although Captain Disco is happily consuming all my time that is not working or napping. I surprisingly have a couple great ideas that are slowly being worked on.
First up is a story that Mr. Simmons (my writing pal and all around awesome dude) came up with while taking of a piss. The story is a superhero
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deadeye — [ded′ī΄] n. 1. a round, flat block of wood with three holes in it for a lanyard, used in pairs on a sailing ship to hold the shrouds and stays taut 2. Slang an accurate marksman … English World dictionary
Deadeye — A triple deadeye without a lanyard A deadeye is an item used in the standing and running rigging of traditional sailing ships. It is a smallish round thick wooden (usually lignum vitae) disc with one or more holes through it, perpendicular to the … Wikipedia
deadeye — /ded uy /, n., pl. deadeyes. 1. Naut. either of a pair of disks of hardwood having holes through which a lanyard is rove: used to tighten shrouds and stays. 2. an expert marksman. [1740 50; DEAD + EYE; as nautical term, prob. ellipsis from… … Universalium
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deadeye — noun Date: 1748 1. a rounded wood block encircled by a rope or an iron band and having holes to receive the lanyard that is used especially to set up shrouds and stays 2. an unerring marksman … New Collegiate Dictionary
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deadeye — Synonyms and related words: Nimrod, air hole, archer, armhole, artilleryman, blowhole, bowman, bullet hole, bunghole, cannoneer, carabineer, crack shot, cringle, dead shot, eye, eyelet, gasket, good shot, grommet, guide, gun, gunman, gunner,… … Moby Thesaurus
deadeye — n. rounded block of wood having a groove around its edge perforated with three holes through which the lanyards are passed (Nautical); (Slang) skilled shooter … English contemporary dictionary
deadeye — noun 1》 Sailing a circular wooden block with a groove round the circumference to take a lanyard, used singly or in pairs to tighten a shroud. 2》 informal, chiefly N. Amer. an expert marksman … English new terms dictionary
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- Skirt: Friday, April 26 only. 212 S. 17th Street; 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. (appointment sales excluded)
- Stuart Weitzman: 1711 Walnut Street; 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m (Friday) and 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. (Saturday)
- Theory: 1616 Walnut Street; 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
- Vince: 1701 Walnut Street; 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Plus: Each store will have opportunities for your to register in person for the Komen Philadelphia MORE THAN PINK Walk. Select stores will also give you an opportunity to talk to a breast health expert from our community grantee family:
- Theory, Friday April 26 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. Dr. Maysa Abu-Khalaf, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson, Associate Professor, Medical Oncology; Director, Breast Medical Oncology Program, Co-Director, Breast Care Center
- rag & bone, Friday April 26 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. Dr. Sucha Asbell, MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper, radiation oncologist
- Nicole Miller, Saturday April 27 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. Dr. Kay Yoon-Flannery, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson, Medical Director, Jefferson Comprehensive Breast Center, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center - Washington Township; Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine
- Boyd's Philadelphia, Saturday April 27 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. Adam Berger, MD, FACS, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson, Chief of Surgical Oncology
So, rework you wardrobe, spruce up your closets, accessorize to your heart's content, experiment with something new and fabulous, buy gifts for everyone on your birthday and anniversary lists—shop at any or all of these stores to help us empower more men and women to survive breast cancer!


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I remember wondering what was being said on Fateful Showdown.
My most recent work is Sanrio (Hello Kitty stuff) card game which I wrote about in this entry: http://ameblo.jp/ryorca/entry-11270591669.html
Well, that shouldn't be a problem since my background is Singapore and Canada. Kinda unique as a Japanese person.Here's my brief history:http://ryorca.net/e/category_5/I actually work as a professional media contents translator (like translating manga and video games) and a songwriter at the same time.My most recent work is Sanrio (Hello Kitty stuff) card game which I wrote about in this entry: http://ameblo.jp/ryorca/entry-11270591669.htmlSomeone uploaded my TV appearance as a interpreter. Japanese TV show. lolhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fhokTN2bg0&list=PL208D60BF7BC389F4
whoado you have a favorite sanrio charactermine is my melodyorkuromiit's too difficult to decide
THOSE ARE MINE TOO lets be best pals
dude. She can speak english.
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Prince Of Wales Visits F-35B Squadron At RAF Marham
Four F-35 Lightning jets arrived at their new UK home in Norfolk last month, with another five expected to arrive in August.
The Prince of Wales will visit the F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jets at RAF Marham today.
Four F-35 Lightning jets arrived at their new UK home in Norfolk last month, with a further five expected to arrive next week.
Prince Charles also met members of 617 Squadron, the UK's first-front line Lightning Squadron.
Officer Commanding of 617 Squadron, Wing Commander John Butcher was one of the pilots when the first jets arrived last month, and told Forces News:
"It was absolutely fantastic to have His Royal Highness here today and to have the opportunity to show him the aircraft, talk about the capabilities and for him to meet the people that are key enablers for us to be able to operate it.
"It was just an absolute privilege.
"I think in particular, His Royal Highness was really impressed with how different the capability is compared to previous aircraft types."
617 Squadron was formally stood up as the first operational F-35B Lightning II squadron in April.
Britain currently has 15 F-35Bs - the short take-off and vertical landing variant of the jets - and has pledged to purchase 138 in total from American Aviation giant Lockheed Martin.
Later this year, F-35 flight trials will take place off the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth.


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Ashley Furniture Homestore Employees Give to Valley's Breast Center
Ridgewood, New Jersey, November 27, 2017 – The employees of Ashley Furniture Homestore located at 545 Route 17 South in Paramus, New Jersey, presented a check of $300 to The Valley Hospital Foundation. The donation is being directed towards Complementary Therapies/ Integrative Healing, which is a special service within Valley's Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Each October, the staff at this local franchise is encouraged to wear pink, be mindful that it is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and to make a donation towards a local charity of their choosing.
Jim Miller, an Ashley Homestore Furniture Employee, lost his wife to breast cancer five years ago. Jim explained to his colleagues that Valley's Complementary Therapies/ Integrative Healing program provided a unique type of support to help his late wife cope with the myriad of side effects brought on by the radiation and chemotherapy treatments.
"The social worker at Valley helped my wife cope with the physical changes and maintain her dignity. Overall, she made the situation a lot less difficult", Jim recalls. In hearing about this, the Ashley Furniture employees pooled their donations to designate them towards Valley.
Valley's Complimentary Therapies/ Integrative Healing program offers therapies that have been proven by national research studies to be effective in reducing fatigue, anxiety, stress and pain perception, enhancing relaxation, and creating a sense of well-being for men and women who are undergoing and recovering from treatment for cancer.
"We don't just treat the disease – we treat the whole patient and assist with things like coping with hair loss, managing financial stress, and creating a community of support through groups and services.," explains Brooke Laster, Licensed Clinical Social Worker. "These kinds of services are aimed to help our patients cope with the challenges that they encounter."
To learn more about the Complementary Therapies/ Integrative Healing program, please visit http://www.valleyhealthcancercenter.com/cancer-services/support-services-and-programs/integrative-healing-services Call 201-634-5325 to make an appointment.
The employees of Ashley Furniture presenting a check to Sandy Carapezza, Director of Development at The Valley Hospital Foundation.
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PHILADELPHIA – Thomas Jones' mother watched the live video of police officers attacking a suspect Wednesday afternoon – without realizing the man being beaten and kicked was her son.
"She was watching it on TV, and she was wondering how they could be beating up this person like that," said Stanley Jones, 19, a nephew of Thomas who is acting as the family's spokesman.
"And then she saw his clothes and realized it was her son."
Clemeline Jones called her daughter, Tracey, and both of them rushed to the hospital.
It was two hours before she was allowed to visit her son. Clemeline Jones told The Post that if she hadn't pleaded, she might never have seen him.
"Some people have a heart, and they help you," she said.
Thomas Jones was unconscious, but every now and then he'd become lucid. "He was tossing and turning," his mother said. "He was acting as if he was still fighting the cops."
Stanley Jones said the family believes Thomas Jones initially fled the cops trying to arrest him to avoid being assaulted by them.
"It's a natural reaction when you put your hands up to surrender to the law, and they break the law," he said. "And then you have to break the law [to survive]."
Jones' family doubts cops' claims that he was resisting arrest while the helicopter hovered overhead.
"If you're shot five times, how much resistance can you do?" Stanley Jones asked.
The Jones family doesn't see the attack as a racial issue, since the videotape shows that some of the officers involved are black.
"Not all cops are bad," said Stanley Jones, who's studying criminal justice at Penn State University. "There are some cops who are good. It's the few cops that are giving all cops the bad name."
Clemeline Jones is taking her son's beating and hospitalization "very hard," said Stanley Jones. "It's her youngest child.
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|Battle of Lockhaven
|Related Events
|Lockhaven conspiracy
|Journeys for supplies
|Group 1:
|The Guard
|Group 2:
|The Axe
The Battle of Lockhaven was a conflict that occurred during the Fall of 1152 when the traitorous Guardmouse Midnight brought his army of followers to Lockhaven's gates. Dissatisfied with the Guard's role in the Territories, Midnight sought to take over Lockhaven under the authority of the Black Axe, and rule over all common mice as a tyrant.
His attempt to conquer Lockhaven failed, and the Guard's matriarch Gwendolyn had her mice march him beyond the Scent Border, far away from the protection of the Guard he so desperately sought to destroy.
Sequence of eventsEdit
Arrivals at the front gatesEdit
- "Archers!? Lockhaven has been waiting for us..."
- ―Midnight to his Army, Fall 1152
On a stormy evening, towards the end of the Fall of 1152, a dark figure arrived at the Lockhaven gates. Quiggly, the stronghold's sentry-mouse, alerted Rand to the unknown mouse's presence, and was subsequently told to bring whoever it was out of the storm. As the gates creaked open, a drenched Sadie strode into Lockhaven's courtyard, receiving a dismissive greeting from Rand. Sadie - wasting no time in the process - informed the Shieldmouse of the Guard's betrayal and the unauthorised Map of Lockhaven. Rand grew serious, and immediately began ordering his Guardmice to prepare for battle.
Shortly afterwards, Midnight's Axe army arrived at the front gates of Lockhaven. Seeing archers already stationed on the parapets, the traitor knew that the advantage of susprise had been lost. Instead, he ordered his mice to attack the front gates with an all-out assault while he himself hauled his captive, the Guardmouse Lieam, to the front of his army. Using the young mouse as his leverage, he demanded to speak with the Guard's Matriarch, Gwendolyn. Ever defiant, Rand rejected his parley and told Midnight that Gwendolyn would never barter with the life of a mouse.
Meanwhile, helplessly watching the conflict unfold in the low maples to the east of Lockhaven were the two Guardmice Kenzie, Saxon, and the oldfur Celanawe. The two younger mice were arguing about whether to attack the army gathered outside the gates, or wait out the danger and hope for the best. Celanawe patiently waited for their argument to end before informing them that there was another entrance to the stronghold that the new Guard wouldn't know how to seal. Seeing the wisdom in this idea, the three mice then departed towards the secret passageway into Lockhaven.
Assault upon the StrongholdEdit
- "It is not we who are trapped in with them, but they who are trapped in with us!"
- ―Midnight, Fall 1152
With the Axe army laying siege to the main gate, Rand knew that it was only a matter of time before they broke through. Worrying, he asked the Guardmouse Meritt why the porticullis wasn't in place. According to Meritt, the rain was rusting the works, preventing the blockade's mechanism from working properly.
That very second, Midnight's army broke through Lockhaven's main gate and entered the great mouse citadel. In a race against time, Meritt sprinted along the threshold with a pair of bolt-cutters in his hand, just managing cut the pully-mechanism supporting the portcullis before being subsequently shot by an axe soldier. The portcullis came crashing down, blocking the entrance from the rest of the advancing invaders, and killing two Axe mice in the process. It was later discovered that Meritt's sacrifice had stopped over one-hundred enemies gaining access to Lockhaven.
Midnight commanded his troops to leave the lifting for the mice outside the walls, and told the rest of his small contigent of mice to head towards Gwendolyn's office. While the enemy was temporarily distracted, the young Guardmouse Lieam fled from his captors, down into the Lockhaven swordsmith. While down there, he managed to scavenge himself two weapons; a long-sword and a dagger, and used them to cut through his bonds.
Whilst the fighting raged downstairs, a Guardmouse was begging Lockhaven's oldfur Apiary Keeper to set the bees of Lockhaven onto the enemy still outside the gates. After a lengthy discussion, the Apiary Keeper agreed, praying that the Guardmice would have enough honey to last through winter. Shortly afterwards, the hives were opened, the bees agitated, and a cloud of bees descended on the helpless army below; rendering the soldiers useless with bee-stings, and ultimately leading to their surrender.
Confrontation in Gwendolyn's OfficeEdit
- "You are not the Black Axe... I am. And I have come to claim what is mine!"
- ―Celanawe to Midnight, Fall 1152
After fighting their way through Lockhaven's defenders, Midnight's army eventually arrived at the base of the Matriarch's Office itself. Steeling themselves, the group headed up the stairs, leaving four mice behind to guard their flank in the case of an ambush. Arriving in the office, Midnight found it deserted, save for the Guardmice Rand, Sadie and Gwendolyn. Midnight ordered the three to stand down, and make room for Midnight's new dominion. Gwendolyn rejected surrender and told the traitor that she would continue to use the Guard as she saw fit. Midnight, growing aggressive, then told her that she would be forced to comply, under the authority of the Black Axe.
Downstairs, Lieam was departing from the Swordsmith's when he heard voices outside Gwendolyn's Office. Moving quickly, he arrived to find the way barred by the four mice left behind by Midnight to protect the rear. Fortunately, the mice were not a problem for the trained Guardmouse, and he took one down with a throwing knife before slaying the rest with his new sword.
Back in the office, just as Midnight was preparing to order the attack on Gwendolyn, a voice seemed to speak to the traitor from a painting on the wall; it told him that he was not the true Black Axe, and that the unknown speaker was the rightful owner of the title. The painting then swung open, and out emerged Celanawe, Kenzie and Saxon, having completed their journey through the secret entrance into the stronghold. Tearing off his helmet in anger, Midnight revealed his true identity to all present, and hurled himself at the Guardmice - ordering his own mice to follow suit.
The End of The AxeEdit
- "I have wielded that weapon for a lifetime... You will not disgrace its legacy!"
- ―Celanawe to Midnight, Fall 1152
With the battle raging on in Gwendolyn's office, it looked as though the Axe might have gained the upper-hand. Thankfully, Lieam arrived just in the nick of time, evening the odds up between the two opposing forces. With the young Guardmouse's help, the Axe soldiers were pushed back and killed, with relatively few injuries on the Guard's side.
At the centre of the room, the leader of the Axe army, Midnight, dueled with the Guard's Matriarch. Midnight was gaining the advantage thanks to his legendary weapon. With a roar, Midnight threw Gwendolyn to the floor and prepared to kill the Guard's young leader. Only the timely intervention of the oldfur Celanawe saved her life. Blocking the traitor's downward finishing swipe, Celanawe faced Midnight in a one-on-one duel, attempting to end his personal vendetta for good.
Midnight swung the Black Axe with all his strength at Celanawe, who barely managed to stop the strike with his own sword. Coupled with both the rust on his weapon, and the fury of Midnight's strike, Celanawe's blade snapped at the hilt. Acting quickly, Celanawe snatched the Axe with his left paw and used his broken sword as a dagger, driving it into his adversary's rib-cage. Bundling the traitor against the stone wall, Celanawe brutally raised the axe and began to swing the weapon execution-style into Midnight's throat.
It was only the intervention of Gwendolyn that saved Midnight's life; reaching out with her arm, she commanded Celanawe to stop. Unable to stop his blow completely, Celanawe instead aimed it at the wall; and spared the traitor Midnight's life.
- "If he dies, he becomes a martyr."
- ―Gwendolyn, Fall 1152
After the battle had ended, Gwendolyn announced that the Guard would continue to function as it ever had, as a group of helpers and guides, rather than enforcers of strict laws. She had her Guardmice march Midnight beyond the borders of the Territories, away from the Guard's protection. Of the one-hundred and fourteen soldiers of midnight's army left outside the gates, most went back to their regular jobs in and around Barkstone. Only three were imprisoned by their local magistrates.


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Three Dead Men & Happy Dark Year – Calvin Demmer (Short Stories)
Recently, another set of short stories by Demmer graced my desk. What I find most interesting about Demmer is the variation in his little stories. Each time I receive a new one, I find they become more original and intriguing than the last.
Happy Dark Year was my favorite of this set. Demmer enjoys creating unfavorable male characters and watching them burn. I have to say I enjoy when these characters get what I feel is coming to them. A surprising twist to this tail. A fantastical, dark story that shows the power of a woman scorned. Definitely, worth the read. A creepy story to send you off to bed.
Three Dead Men ventures back to a Japanese world, a place Demmer has an inclination to revisit. But aside from the people being Japanese, the threat itself is non-Japanese. Instead, Egyptian seems to be on the menu. This was less enjoyable for me, just because I didn't really feel the fear. Nevertheless, it was still an original creation, just needed more emotion.
You can find these stories on Amazon in Kindle format.
Happy Dark Year – Cody Wheeler wants to enjoy New Year's Eve. He wants to catch up with friends he hasn't seen since going off to college. But his girlfriend, Kendall, is back to throwing fits and nagging him, ruining his break at home. He decides she needs to be taught a lesson. Nothing serious, just a little reminder that she should act her age. Cody, however, gets carried away and doesn't foresee the horror that awaits him at her favorite spot by the lake.
Three Dead Men – When college student Maiko Hayashi goes to pick her uncle up for Christmas Eve dinner, she isn't expecting a silent house with no lights on, and she definitely isn't expecting the terrifying scenario she's about to walk into.
Calvin Demmer is a crime, mystery, and speculative fiction author. He has had over thirty stories published in various magazines and anthologies. When not writing, he is intrigued by that which goes bump in the night and the sciences of our universe.
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Do you remember your first punch in the nose?
I think most guys can. I didn't have a particularly violent childhood but it had its share of slugs, kicks, slaps, bites, dutch rubs and indian rope burns. All these were pretty much the expected and accepted currency of rough and tumble boyhood. Still I wasn't prepared for the discombobulation of taking the first shot to the snotlocker. It was painful, disorienting and effectively short-circuited my offensive efforts in the fight. For that matter, it didn't do a lot for my defensive efforts either. Ultimately the pain went away before the humiliation did. What lasted, however, was an understanding that that type of blow, while shocking, isn't fatal. I would get hit in the nose a couple of more times before I became an "adult" and was able to do better than just persevere in those episodes.
I thought back to these experiences today while reading Michelle Malkin's "Land of the Meek" post and her related "Namby Pamby Nation" column. Here's an excerpt from the column:
The left-wing Kumbaya crowd is quietly grooming a generation of pushovers in the public schools. At a time of war, when young Americans should be educated about this nation's resilience and steely resolve, educators are indoctrinating students with saccharine-sticky lessons on "non-violent conflict resolution" and "promoting constructive dialogues."
Peaceniks are covering our kids from head to toe in emotional bubble wrap. They are creating a nation of namby-pambys.
The latest example of Hand-Holding 101 comes from the New York City public schools. According to Lauren Collins of The New Yorker magazine, the school system is introducing a new curriculum called "Operation Respect: Don't Laugh at Me" into all of its elementary and middle schools. The program is now used in at least 12,000 schools and camps across the country.
Ostensibly, the program helps kids deal with petty meanness and name-calling from insensitive classmates. Not by instructing them in self-defense, mind you, but by inflating their self-esteem.
Now, I generally support non-violence. Despite what you may assume from the way I opened this post, my mother raised me not to fight and not to hit; especially where my younger brother and sister were concerned. "You're bigger than they are, and it's not right." I tried to live up to her standard, and suffered the sanctions when I couldn't. But along with that came the sense that I shouldn't let other big people pound on littler people either.
There was a time when my brother was in junior high when some larger classmates of his conducted an ongoing taunting campaign against him. When this escalated to ganging up on him physically, an intervention was discussed at the dinner table that night. Somewhat to our surprise, my father indicated there would be no parental involvement: if we wanted to send a message we'd have to do it ourselves. "You don't have to win," he said, "but you do have to fight. If you don't let them know there's a price to pay this will never end." That might not be word for word, given the years that have passed, but the meaning is still clear to me today.
The next day we waded into them (a couple of the younger guys were every bit my size)…and we won. The next day, and the day after that, brought additional skirmishes as other "insurgents" sought their own revenge, but we continued to prevail and by the end of the week peace reigned in the neighborhood. I did have to endure a mother hen cursing me out from her front porch while her six-foot "chick" skulked nearby in utter mortification, but the look on his face was worth it. Not to mention what it did for my self-esteem.
Read Michelle's post and the comment string that goes with it for examples from others of how peace at any cost approach is literally hurting kids and leaving them ill-equipped to handle their emotions and and life's setbacks. As for me, I don't think I was warped by my experience. I haven't resorted to physical intimidation or violence to solve a dispute since that time, but the lessons learned from that week and from the punches in the nose I received before then have served me well.
Some say that you can't live like that today because a fistfight might suddenly turn into a gunfight. There's certainly evidence to support that. I wonder, though, if the youth today had been allowed to scrap more when they were younger – if they had learned that respect sometimes needs to be earned, not assumed – that the rage that leads to going for a gun might have already been tempered. For me, I learned I wasn't always going to win, that some people just weren't going to like me, and that I could take a hit and keep going. It gave me confidence and also taught me how to think under pressure. One last example:
When I was a sophomore in high school my gym class went through the Red Cross life-saving training program. We met in the school pool and learned and practiced techniques for grabbing and controlling drowning swimmers so they could be rescued. When it came time to pass our final exam, our gym teacher invited a couple of seniors who were varsity tackles on the football team to be our "victims". They were told to resist us in any way they could in order to mimic the panic and unpredictability of a real drowning victim. If we couldn't "save" them we would get an F for the final.
The tackles, naturally, looked at this as a legal way to beat up on underclassmen. I watched as three or four of my classmates were themselves dragged out of the pool, bruised and bloody. The only thing our teacher said was "Next," and I realized he meant me. Having been grounded in evolution theory, I may have suggested that we wait and see if my assigned drowning victim would develop gills. (Of course, that would have meant evolution is observable.)
Nevertheless, into the pool I went to grapple with a guy who was big, mean and having a good time. I knew he seriously wanted to hurt my feelings…and anything else he could get his hands on. I suppose if he'd been through "Operation Respect" he might not have acted this way, but odds are you're going to run into people who slept through the class.
Anyway, instead of swimming up to him and trying to get my arms around his barrel-sized chest in one of the holds we had been taught, I treaded water just outside his reach while he taunted me. When he finally lunged at me I instead wrapped my arms around his head in a way definitely not described in our textbook and proceeded to do everything I could to keep my body between him and the surface of the water.
The agreed upon signal if anyone found themselves in trouble during a "rescue" was to pinch your partner. I waited until I had felt two or three pinches before releasing my grip. When he popped desperately to the surface I took the opportunity to apply a more orthodox hold and swam him to the side of the pool – a direction he was now very happy to go. He was heaving, my classmates were cheering and the instructor was hiding his face behind his clipboard so we wouldn't see him laughing. That seemed to calm things down for the rest of the assignment and we all passed, including the earlier rescuers who were given a second chance. As for the guy I "rescued", he learned to appreciate the difference between playing at being saved and the real need to be saved. But that's a blog for another day.


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|"The Big Sickie"
|"The Slow and the Even-Tempered"
|"A Lime to Party"
|"The Slow and the Even-Tempered"
|Episode name reference to/pun on: The Fast and the Furious
|Season 1, Episode 3
| CAN: November 28, 2004
USA: January 11, 2006 (Nickelodeon)
AUS: May 21, 2008 (ABC1)
USA: 20 June 25, 2009 (Cartoon Network)
|Directed by:
|Karen Lessmann
|Written by:
|George Westerholm
|Story Editors:
|Jennifer Pertsch
|Episode Guide
The Slow and the Even-Tempered is the 3rd episode of the series. It aired on Teletoon in Canada on November 28, 2004, on Nickelodeon in the United States on January 11, 2006, on ABC1 in Australia on May 21, 2008 and Cartoon Network on June 25, 2009. Jen has a driving test coming up, but she finds herself unable to deal with the stress brought on not just by the test but by her memories of being involved in a crash. Meanwhile, Wyatt tries to prepare for an audition without the help of his lucky jacket, and Jonesy takes a job as a mall cop.
Main Plot
Jen's driving test is coming up. Unfortunately for her, she can't help but keep remembering the incident that caused her to have to get a job at the Big Squeeze the previous year: she left the parking brake off in a school bus, and it slid backwards into an equipment shed, causing damage to both the bus and the shed. As a result, her nerves are frayed, and despite studying her driver's manual intensely she can't get up the self confidence that she needs to know that she'll pass.
When she visits Stick It, though, Jude guesses at her problem and then offers to teach her. Although Jen is initially skeptical, when she learns that Jude has a driver's license she takes him up on his offer. Jude then tells Jen the conditions of him teaching her: she needs to accept everything he does and follow his instructions to the letter.
When Jen accepts these conditions, Jude asks to see her driver's manual. After flipping through it, Jude tosses it in the trash and then informs Jen that she has to get off book; so saying, he leads her to the arcade. There, he sets Jen up in a driving video game and has her go drive. Jen does so, but does horribly at the game by obeying all the rules of the road except the one about wanting to go faster than a one-legged woman with a walker.
Jude is not happy with Jen's performance, and when Jen protests that she was just trying to be safe, Jude reveals the real reason they're there: driving is inherently unsafe, so practicing unsafe driving in a simulator will make Jen a better driver overall because she'll be better prepared to drive in unsafe conditions. The logic of this makes sense to Jen, and soon she starts playing the game in the manner it's intended to be played. Eventually, Jen gets a high score on the game, proving her mastery to Jude.
At this point, Jonesy arrives and uses his authority as a mall cop to clear the arcade. After he does this, he plops down and takes Jen's place on the game, pushing her out. However, while he's concentrating Jude asks him some questions about his keys, and when Jonesy confirms that he has keys to a car on display in the mall, Jude asks for the keys and receives them from his distracted friend.
With keys in hand, Jude leads Jen to the car, where he has her take the wheel and get ready to drive. When Jen shifts into gear and stomps on the accelerator, however, the car goes backwards, as Jen had shifted into reverse. The car flies off its pedestal and into the fountain, only avoiding Wyatt because Wyatt happened to drop his portable CD player into the fountain and had bent down to get it.
Jude and Jen get out of the car, and Jude hands the keys back to Jonesy. Jen, however, has learned her lesson: no driving with Jude. When she meets with her friends at Grind Me, Jen has taken her driver's manual back, and is hard at work studying it. Jude didn't come out a loser, however, as he entered a raffle where the grand prize was the (now-drowned) car and won second prize: a scooter. Ron doesn't like to see Jude tooling around the mall, though, and soon he confiscates the scooter from Jude on the grounds that Jude was speeding–a surprisingly appropriate charge given Jude's teaching methods.
Sub-Plot One: Wyatt's Jacket
When Wyatt, walks up to the Big Squeeze, he is clad in an ugly old brown aviator's jacket. Naturally, his friends make fun of him for his choice of outerwear, and Caitlin offers to take Wyatt shopping for a nicer jacket. Wyatt declines this offer, though, as he likes his jacket and believes that it will bring him luck–which he desperately needs, as he has an audition that night.
Caitlin disapproves of Wyatt's unstylish choice, however, and when Wyatt accidentally leaves his jacket behind she can't help but take it so that she can hide it and prove that Wyatt doesn't need it. When Wyatt comes back in search of his jacket, she misleads Wyatt by stating that she hasn't seen it, and after he leaves she takes it out to reassure herself that she's doing the right thing. She does this just as Nikki arrives, though, and when Nikki questions her Caitlin reveals her reasoning for taking the jacket. While Nikki does not think that Caitlin's theft was a good idea, she accepts it, as she wants to see how things will play out.
Wyatt, meanwhile, suffers through a string of bad luck. First, he is assigned to run two departments at Spin This, as Serena has just fired one of his coworkers. This leaves him with no time to rehearse, and Wyatt starts to create a vicious spiral of worry for himself where he can't concentrate without his jacket. This convinces Caitlin, after some contemplation, to give Wyatt his jacket back, but when she goes to Spin This to give it to him she finds that Wyatt never came back to work.
Caitlin and Nikki begin to search for him, and find Wyatt tossing coins into the fountain. As Caitlin watches, Wyatt drops his Discman in the fountain. When he bends down to pick it up, however, a car piloted by Jen and Jude sails backwards over his head into the fountain. Caitlin runs up to Wyatt just after the wave hits him, and while Wyatt is initially angry about all that's happened to him–a broken CD player, soaking wet, and twenty minutes until he plays–until Caitlin points out how lucky he was to have avoided getting hit by the car. This helps convince Wyatt that he doesn't need his jacket, but he takes the returned jacket anyway and then happily goes off to his audition.
Sub-Plot Two: Mall Cop Jonesy
Once again, Jonesy needs a new job, so Jen suggests that he take the job Ron has posted for an assistant. Although Jonesy is reluctant to do so, he does need the money, and soon he applies. There, Ron runs him through several tests, and when Jonesy passes, Ron gives him the uniform; Jonesy initially protests against the costume, but Ron puts his foot down, and soon Jonesy is dressed as a member of Mall Security.
As a member of mall security, Jonesy soon realizes that there are perks to the job, such as the attentions of Yummy Mummy and his ability to extort freebies from businesses. Once he realizes this, Jonesy begins living the high life. Unfortunately for him, his generosity towards Jude proves to be his undoing, as after the car crashes Ron kicks him off of the force and takes his uniform, leaving Jonesy jobless and naked.
- Jude: I didn't know you could drive so slowly in this game! You really suck at this!
Jen: What do you want? That old man with the walker just cut me off!
Jude: Just try to relax. The game is not just about driving, it's also about killing things.
- Game: Mission failed! Mission failed!
Jen: Hey look! I tied my high score!
Jude: Dude, that was pathetic!
Jen: Hey! I got four points!
Jude: The game's high score is 75,000! One-legged moms with strollers were passing you!
Jen: I was just trying to be safe.
- Jude: (to Jen) That was reverse...
- Ron: That's it. You're fired.
Jonesy: Fired? What for!
Ron: There's a car in the fountain.
Jonesy: So? What's that got to do with me?
Jude: Here's the keys back, dude. Sweet ride. Reverse is a little jumpy, though. You might want to look into that.
- Jonesy: C'mon, tell the truth! You were into me in that uniform!
Nikki: (sarcastically) Yes, Jonesy, I was SO turned on, I could barely contain myself! Pass the chips.
- Jonesy's job: assistant mall security officer.
Reason for firing: let Jude have his keys to a display car, which resulted in Jude and Jen crashing it into the fountain.
- Recurring/minor character premieres:
- This is the first appearance of Grind Me. It was first mentioned in the pilot episode.
- Strangely, this episode is not included in the Take This Job and Squeeze It DVD. It is the only one of the first four episodes that is left out. It later appeared on the Deck the Mall DVD and 6teen:The Complete First Season (which, despite its name, was only the first half of the first season).
- Coach Halder tells Jen not to get anything spicy for lunch. This is a tip-off early on in Dude of the Living Dead, as Coach Halder instantly accepts Jude's challenge of eating something spicy.
- This is the first episode in which Caitlin doesn't cry. She had cried in the first two episodes for various reasons.
This clip was provided by Official_6Teen on YouTube.
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|Take This Job and Squeeze It • The Big Sickie • The Slow and the Even-Tempered • A Lime to Party • Deck the Mall • The Sushi Connection • The Five Finger Discount • Breaking Up with the Boss' Son • Employee of the Month • Idol Time at the Mall • The Fake Date • Mr. Nice Guy • The Girls in the Band • Clonesy • Stupid Over Cupid • The Khaki Girl • The (Almost) Graduate • Bring It On • The Swami • Cecil B. Delusioned • The Birthday Boy • Enter the Dragon • One Quiet Day • It's Always Courtney, Courtney, Courtney! • The One with the Text Message • Boo, Dude • 6teen: Dude of the Living Dead
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Today is in Germany Girl's Day
David Hetfield
Is it math on the board? :|
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=)) David
"Girl doing math? Buried because inaccurate."=)
It is not simply Girl's day. It is Girl's Future Day.
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> It is not simply Girl's day. It is Girl's Future Day.Itman the official name in Germany is "Girls'Day". (Though not "Girl's Day" as I wrote in the post.) But "Zukunft" in "Mädchen-Zukunftstag" does indeed translate to "future".
I loved the logo... I did not think it had something to do with Girls day but I just identified with it whole day (I am a scientist). then my daughter saw it said wow cool for girls day.it is not officiall girls day any more but as a woman scientist i love to see it there.can i have it back.can i customize my google logo and get it back.c.
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1678. London. And down these mean streets a diarist must walk ...
A complex historical thriller tipping its hat to the noir fiction of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Anthony Fowles' recreation of Restoration London centres on the brutal slaying of a London magistrate.
Enter one Samuel Pepys, acting on behalf of his client, Charles II. And, like any good gumshoe, he is soon drawn into a shadowy world of lies and deception. Religious fanaticism, show trials, corruption in high places and political assassination ... nothing is ever what it seems.
Thankfully, being a literary man, Pepys left behind a hitherto unknown journal ...
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Anthony Fowles was born in London and educated at the Universities of Oxford and Southern California. He began his artistic career as filmmaker but in time sharpened his focus to concentrate on writing. The success of his first thriller, Dupe Negative, allowed him an eclectic career embracing novels, biography and literary criticism. For Greenwich Exchange he has written studies on John Dryden, Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Heller and Jean Rhys.
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Entertaining Harry Potter Party Games: Printables and Group Games
Harry Potter Games
Here are some simple, yet interactive and fun games you can play at your next Harry Potter get-together. I know that Scholastic (the American publisher) has lots of paper and pencil games like crosswords and word searches on its website, but these are designed to be more active and interactive, to get a group moving and thinking.
These are activities that groups of children at a party can participate in, as well as families that are looking to put together a fun game night based on the Harry Potter books.
I've used the things in the Harry Potter universe to adapt some well-known games that will be easy to set up and fun to play. I've also include lots of printables so that you can just print and go.
Here you will find fun games that help you come up with a name that sounds "Harry Potter-ish," a "Polyjuice Potion" character guessing game, a quick way to print out cards and clues for Harry Potter Bingo, and printable cards to use for a Harry Potter drawing game, similar to Pictionary.
How to Print These Harry Potter Games
Look for the orange links. Each one will link you to pdf versions of the documents. Some have several documents together, and if you just want selected pages, make sure to set your printer to print only the pages you want to have.
Hogwarts Student Name Generator
Lots of sites on the web will sort you into a Hogwarts house, but if you want to choose a name that fits the part, the following chart can help you out. Just look up the first letter of your first name in Column 1. Then look up the first letter of your last name in Column 2. Finally, look up the last letter of your last name in Column 3.
Don't forget to pay attention to whether you are looking in the boys' or girls' section.
Confused? Let's use my name, Adele Jeunette as an example.
I'm a girl, so I'll be looking at the top part of the table. Adele starts with the letter "A," so I look in Column 1 and find out my first name in Harry-Potter-land would be "Calypso."
My last name starts with a "J," so I would look in Column 2 to find "Dumble."
My last name ends with an "E," so I would look in Column 3 and find "Spur."
And there you have it: "Adele Jeunette" turns into the name "Calypso Dumblespur."
"What Is Your Magic Name?" Printable
Here Is the Link for the "What's Your Magic Name?" Sheet
Here is the link for a word document you can print out: What's Your Magic Name?
Hogwarts School Name Tag
Now that you have a new name, announce in to the world with these name tags. You can just print them, cut along the lines, and tape them to people's shirts.
Hogwarts School Name Tag Printable
Harry Potter Polyjuice Potion Game
This is a variation of a game that has been a staple with book clubs for a long time. Put the name of one of the Harry Potter characters on each person's back. Then, have them circulate around the room asking each person a "yes" or "no" question until they can figure out the name they have. Young children might need some help with the types of questions they should ask. Good opening questions would be "Am I female? and "Am I a student?"
Harry Potter Polyjuice Potion Game Printable
Harry Potter Drawing Game
In the style of Pictionary, participants pull a card and then draw what is on it while other people on their team try to guess what it is.
The person who is making the drawing isn't allowed to include any symbols (like letters or numbers) in the drawing, and isn't allowed to say anything while making the drawing.
The following images have batches of cards for easy, intermediate, and challenging drawings. See the end of this article for a link that will let you print a pdf version. If you print the images onto card stock paper, you can cut along the lines and have a set of cards to use.
Harry Potter Drawing Game Printables
Harry Potter Trivia/Bingo Game Printables
The following cards serve a double duty. You can simply play a trivia game (there are "easy" and "medium" questions), or you can generate Bingo cards and use the cards as clues for a Bingo game.
Harry Potter Bingo
To set up a Harry Potter Bingo game, first you need to print out some Bingo cards. Fortunately, there are sites which will take a list of words you provide, randomize them, and spit them out as a series of Bingo cards which you can then print. This is my favorite site for making Bingo cards.
You can choose the number of squares, the theme, whether to have a free space, etc. Here are the words you can copy and paste to put into the generator:
- Rita Skeeter
- Hagrid
- Dumbledore
- McGonagall
- Harry Potter
- Snape
- Hermione
- Ginny
- Ron
- Sirius Black
- Dobby
- Draco
- Golden Snitch
- Sorting Hat
- Invisibility Cloak
- Time-Turner
- Howler
- Deathly Hallows
- Marauder's Map
- Godric Gryffindor's Sword
Next, you can print out the cards, shuffle them, read the clues, and have the game participants put a marker over the answer to your clues. You can separate the easy and medium games—or you can mix them up for an extra challenge. There are four clues for each possible answer (2 easy and two medium.)
Harry Potter Trivia/Bingo Game Cards—Easy—Page 1
Harry Potter Trivia/Bingo Game Cards—Easy—Page 2
Harry Potter Trivia/Bingo Game Cards—Easy—Page 3
Harry Potter Trivia/Bingo Game Cards—Medium—Page 1
Harry Potter Trivia/Bingo Game Cards—Medium—Page 2
Harry Potter Trivia/Bingo Game Cards—Medium—Page 3
Here Is the Link for the Printable Games
Here you will find the link for the Name Tags, Polyjuice Potion Game, Drawing Game, and the Trivia Cards.
If you only want certain pages, just make sure to set your printer for only these pages.
Harry Potter Games Wrap-Up
And there you have it: lots of simple and fun games for our next Harry Potter celebration. with everything in printable form, you'll be able to assemble everything you need in a flash.
Questions & Answers
Which house was Dumbledore in?
Gryffindor, of course!Helpful 10
Who are you most like in Harry Potter?
Hermione. The girl always going to the library.Helpful 16
Who was your least favourite character?
Here's an interesting story I read: Before he started shooting the movie, the director asked each of the three principal actors to write a paper about the character they were going to play. Emma Watson went right to work and turned in a lengthy paper. Daniel Radcliffe turned in one that was a little bit shorter. And Rupert Grint didn't turn in one at all. He explained "Ron wouldn't write the paper." the director had to agree. I like Ron's family, but he himself is a bit of a slacker.Helpful 5
Why were Ron and Hermione together?
That's a good question. I don't really see the two of them as a match. I'd like to see Hermione with someone who shares more of her interests--reading about things in the library, for instance.Helpful 5
What do you love most about Harry Potter?
I love the setting the most. It's genius how she makes the magic so homey.Helpful 3
© 2016 Adele Jeunette
Thank you so much for all these items! My friends and I are having a HP Marathon today and I know I will bring all the joy by showing up with these bonus games!
These are fantastic. I had no problems with the orange links connecting to a PDF. Thank you!
I couldn't get it to print out
It is cool but i dont get the first one!!!
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Saturday, January 04, 2014
two woolly hats
A year ago I knitted quite a lot of hats, caps and beanies, but I never got around to the blog show and tell part. Not even sure I've uploaded to photos to Flickr actually. When I do I will blog a bit. Because they were/are quite adorable pieces. Some from pattern, some my own creations.
But for now, two hats I've made during the Christmas holidays. I may not have followed through with a lot of the things I had planned to do during these past few weeks - I totally blame the glum weather and lack of energy for that - but at least I have been busy with needles, hooks and yarn.
So apart from finishing the supersized red scarf - more of later - and the finishing touches of the Lovikka mittens I have also begun crocheting one shawl for myself (bought yarn for it three years ago ie better late than never. Although it's a lot of work for a minimal progress, seems like it's going to some kind of eternity project...), begun a scarf to order and then these two hats.
The purple one is actually a Lovikka hat, a gift for my mother. I have yet to do the finishing embroidery. And with the green winter it's no rush for that, too warm to wear anyway.
The other one, with a big pink bobble is from left over yarn from that soy-wool scarf I made a few year's back. Lovely soft yarn, winter white and blue greyish. My own creation and I thought a big pink bobble on top would be the perfect finishing touch. I will probably save it for inauguration next winter. The hat itself was a reasonably quick knit, the bobble on the other hand took well over three hours to finish. A lot of yarn went into that. And obviously a lot more work than one might think... At least when one does it by hand alone.
To begin and finish a knitting/crocheting project within a reasonable time span, there's something so utterly satisfying with that. Must. remember. that. feeling. And un-embrace the fact that I might be the queen of half finished yarn-projects.
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