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TNA Impact Wrestling Preview From London

Here is the TNA website’s official preview for tonight’s episode of Impact Wrestling on Spike TV, taped last month from the UK:

– Who will face “The Charismatic Enigma” Jeff Hardy for the World Heavyweight Championship at Lockdown? General Manager Hulk Hogan has booked four main-event quality matches that will take place on Thursday to help him make his final decision! The matches are:

– Kurt Angle vs. Samoa Joe
– Magnus vs. Christopher Daniels
– Austin Aries vs. Bobby Roode
– James Storm vs. Rob Van Dam

Who will step up and potentially earn the chance to face Hardy at Lockdown? Tune in Thursday night to find out!

– On Wednesday, via their twitter @TheAcesand8s, the renegade biker gang challenged Hulk Hogan to put together a team to face them at Lockdown on March 10 at The Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. We reached out to Hulk Hogan for a comment and he has promised to address this challenge and also his plans for Jeff Hardy and the World Championship at the start of IMPACT this Thursday!

– Also on Thursday, the contestants from the “British Boot Camp” series will be in action as Marty and the Blossom Twins battle TNA superstars Gail Kim, Tara and Jesse Godderz in mixed tag team action!

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South Beach Tanning Company: Charlotte Market to Expand to Five Locations

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Charlotte Franchisee commits to developing three new South Beach Tanning Company locations in the Charlotte, NC market.

Scott Cline, South Beach Tanning Company’s very first franchisee, has committed to the development of three additional locations in the Charlotte market. His first location opened in December of 2009, and his second location, which opened just seven months ago in December, 2012, has been a huge success. Building on that momentum, Cline has hired a broker to locate three additional locations in the Charlotte market.

With the additional commitment of three new locations, Cline will own a total of five locations in the Charlotte market. South Beach Tanning franchisor, Brian Hibbard says, “Scott is very detail oriented and a great operator. Since he is a CPA and auditor by trade, his attention to detail in the numbers of the store is impeccable. Being that he is already a multi-unit operator in another industry has certainly helped his success in expanding our brand. The Charlotte market is a very saturated market with respect to the tanning industry, and Scott has performed extremely well against a host of other brands.”

Cline doesn’t plan to stop at five locations. He has plans to expand beyond the Charlotte market and has already begun expansion plans into the Alabama market with the help of his wife and her family, who are originally from that state.

South Beach Tanning Company is headquartered in Orlando, FL, and operates salons throughout Central Florida, Tampa, South Florida and Charlotte, NC. Founded by Brian Hibbard, a CPA, South Beach Tanning has been in business since 2003, and at the time of this press release, has never closed a location in its ten year history. Individuals interested in franchising with the South Beach brand, or existing salons looking to convert to the South Beach brand, should contact their Franchise Sales Director at 855-844-8377 or visit our franchise website at

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Last year I made a Christmas wallpaper that was appreciated and downloaded by many people. Many of them wanted a tutorial on how it was created but because the season was ending I didn't get the chance of doing it. So I will do it for this Christmas.

It is actually a photo manipulation tutorial in which I combine different stock images and Photoshop brushes to transform the earth planet into a giant Christmas Ball.

I really hope you get inspired and create your own Christmas in Outer Space inspired Wallpapers. I would love to see your results!

Resources Needed for This Tutorial

Before we start let's download all the resources that we need for this photo manipulation. So copy the stock images and install the Photoshop brushes from the following links:

Here are the best photography resources that you can use for your cool photo manipulations.

Because I am making an wallpaper I have to take into account the wallpaper size before I begin. As you know there are many different resolution sizes, for example 1600x1200, 1920x1080, and so on.

Usually, when I make a wallpaper, I create it at 1920x1200 px size. That way, since most people's resolutions are that size or smaller, the wallpaper comes out looking good. It's always better to shrink it than to try and stretch it.

Another trick is to use a seamless pattern for the background and to blend the other images with this background, so that if you need a bigger image you can easily add extra pixels.

Wallpaper Background

So open a PSD file, size 1920x1200 and copy the Starfield Pattern as your first layer. Make sure you copy the big size image (2048x2048) that will cover the entire canvas. If you want to use the small size image you can save it as pattern because it is a seamless texture.

There are too many stars on this texture, so we will make some adjustments to obtain fewer stars. Go to Image, Adjustments, Levels and make the following settings.

Using Levels you can adjust brightness, contrast, and tonal range of your image by specifying the location of complete black, complete white, and midtones in a histogram. We have a simple image with only black and white tones, so you can easily see the changes. If you want to find out more about Levels you can check out this tutorial, Levels in Photoshop.

To soften the stars I decided to apply a Gaussian Blur Filter, small radius size 0.5 pixels.

Add the second Starfield Texture to make our background look more like a colorful galaxy. It seems that the author made this texture himself and it really looks great. If you are interested in making space landscapes from scratch and you want to learn how to create realistic galaxy in Photoshop, you can check out this collection of tutorials

Change the Blending Mode of this layer to Lighten and set the opacity to 60%. We are making this adjustment because the focus point is the planet and not the background.

Planet in Photoshop

Add the Earth Planet and place it in the center of the canvas. You can see that the image already looks like a real planet with shadows and highlights added. All we have to do is try to blend it with the rest of our image.

Use the Elliptical Marquee Tool to make a round selection. To obtain a perfect circle keep the SHIFT key pressed. Copy the selection in another layer.

To copy a selection in another layer, first make the selection. Next, right click and choose Layer via Copy or Layer via Cut from the list. Another way is to go to the Layer menu and from the submenu New choose again Layer via Copy or Layer via Cut.

The same effect can be obtained using shortcuts. The key combination for Layer via Copy is CTRL+J and for Layer via Cut is SHIFT+CTRL+J. Try always to use shortcuts, it will make your life much easier.

Resize the planet to 85% and let's add some layer styles. We will start by adding Inner Shadow; the color for the shadow is #092541.

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8:29 AM Monday, November 28, 2011
its very beautiful! nice tutorial :) reply
8:44 AM Monday, November 28, 2011
good tutorial at good time

12:06 PM Monday, November 28, 2011
Looks Amazing!!! Really nice work! reply
12:18 PM Monday, November 28, 2011
Nice wallpaper and excellent description about how to make it.
I would really love to download the wallpaper. Do you have a link where I can find it?

Thanks reply
12:26 PM Monday, November 28, 2011
Thanks Ainsley! reply
5:50 PM Monday, November 28, 2011
I am glad you like it! Here you can find the Xmas Wallpaper Download that I have made last year. They are not identical ! reply
5:12 PM Saturday, December 03, 2011
This looks great. :) reply
5:16 PM Saturday, December 03, 2011
Thanks Alex! reply
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2:29 PM Sunday, December 04, 2011
Love this tutorial. Thx a lot. reply
2:46 PM Sunday, December 04, 2011
I'm glad to hear it! reply
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6:47 PM Sunday, December 04, 2011
amazing idea and useful tips you sharing in this tutorial. thanks reply
6:48 PM Sunday, December 04, 2011
:) thank you! reply
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11:03 AM Thursday, December 08, 2011
wow such a great tutorial!! this idea is really amazing, i will try it :) thanks for sharing this unique christmas wallpaper idea! reply
11:03 AM Thursday, December 08, 2011
:) your comment makes me happy ! reply
7:42 AM Friday, December 09, 2011
Nice work. Especially manually created ball hook :) reply
7:43 AM Friday, December 09, 2011
Thank you Maria! reply
11:43 AM Monday, December 12, 2011
wow these tutorial is really fantastic, i read and made this tutorial side by side... its looks really fantastic :) thanks for sharing dear... reply
11:44 AM Monday, December 12, 2011
I am glad my work is appreciated ! reply
7:30 AM Sunday, February 05, 2012
una idea fabulosa!!!!!
esta imagen si a subido a la primera, gracias por tus consejos!!!!!
un abrazo. reply
7:37 AM Sunday, February 05, 2012
gracias ninaelch, me gusta mucho tu trabajo :)
un abrazo a ti tambien amiga!!!

11:51 PM Friday, October 12, 2012
please I need some help and anybody's suggestion will be ok. when ever i reduce a pix (by clicking on one of the edge of the picture) with a high resolution on Photoshop, the picture always become blur and looses its sharpness and the same thing happens with text. please what can i do to correct waiting please. thanks in advance reply
12:28 AM Saturday, October 13, 2012
I don't really understand your question. To reduce an image with a pixel simply go to the Image - Image Size and input the new size.
If you are making a selection and contract that selection with 1 pixel what you describes it doesn't happen either.

Pliz take a clear example and explain all the steps that you are making and the result you are getting(and of course the result that you want to obtain)! reply
11:47 PM Sunday, December 09, 2012

Merci pour votre site tr??s sympathique et tr??s bien expliqu??.
Voici ma cr??ation un peu transform??e :)

Thank you for your website very nice and very well explained.
Here is my creation turned a little :) reply
11:51 PM Sunday, December 09, 2012
Hello MarmotteSeptimontaine,

I am really glad when people appreciate my work and when they practice the tutorials I am even happier! Very good result :) reply
9:06 AM Friday, January 11, 2013
Great tutorial! I enjoyed doing it. Hope you'll like my result. reply
9:20 AM Friday, January 11, 2013
The result is nice but you should add a Photo Filter adjustment layer to blend all the color/elements together. And the position of the Christmas trees must be on the edge of the Christmas ball otherwise the perspective isn't quite right! reply
1:25 AM Saturday, January 12, 2013
Thanks for advice! reply

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The moniker for the University's athletics teams has become a popular reference for all things Purdue. A reporter first used the name in 1891 to describe the year's winning football team and quickly gained approval from students.

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The locomotive design of Purdue's official mascot celebrates the University's renowned engineering programs. The first Boilermaker Special was presented in September 1940 and has been used to announce campus events ever since. Rides on the Special can be arranged through the Purdue Reamer Club.

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The University Choir first performed the hymn on March 6, 1943, during a convocation in the Purdue (now Elliott) Hall of Music. Fifty years later, it was adopted by the trustees as the University’s official anthem in response to petitions by hundreds of students and alumni.

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Dementia Care: A Basic ‘Primer’ on Biological Aspects of a Dementia – pt. two

Senior Woman Holding Hands with CaretakerLast week we began to look at some of the biological causes of dementia, in particular we singled out the primary dementias and concentrated on DAT. The week before we looked at memory, memory systems and the processes by which memories are made – and lost.

This week we look at the second most common form of the primary dementias, that of vascular dementia (VD), and we discuss some of the causes and some common symptoms. However to quickly recap: Every person living with a dementia is unique. Dementia itself is not an illness or any one specific disease process, rather it is a syndrome, a term used to describe a collection of related diseases and pathologies.

A syndrome is a collection of signs and symptoms that can be commonly grouped together and are recognised as producing a similar outcome even if the causes may be different.

There are well over 140 different types of ‘dementia’ and it is probable more will come to light in the next decade, however we said that the general public commonly believe that when any reference to ‘dementia’ is made we are referring to someone living with Alzheimer’s disease, but as you will read this week, often, we are not.

Vascular dementia – Whenever damage occurs to the structure of the brain or oxygen is reduced to the brain, cells die.

The symptoms of vascular dementia can occur suddenly or gradually following a stroke or several small strokes as these are events that A) damage the structure of the brain and b) reduce oxygen to the affected brain region.

If these events are large enough, or frequent enough, then damage will eventually reach a critical mass where global performance (the whole function of the brain) is affected. However VD differs markedly from DAT unless damage to the brain reaches critical levels and multiple brain regions are affected. In the early stages small TIA’s can leave a person with symptoms that can be mistaken for depression and if damage is concentrated to specific regions of the brain then only he functions these areas control may be affected.

Vascular dementia accounts for about 10 – 20 per cent of all diagnosed dementias and is usually seen in the seventh and eight decades of life. Pure vascular dementia is now thought less common than in previous decades, as the presentation of mixed dementia – a combination of cerebral incidents with the plaques and tangles of Alzheimers disease is now rising.

This is likely due to more sophisticated imaging technology and a greater awareness among GPs of the differences and similarities of the two, and may also be in part an outcome of the medical history that can be followed with the types of diseases that can lead to VD, as opposed to the diagnosis by omission most often applied to the symptoms of DAT.

The most common form of vascular dementia (VD) is multi-infarct dementia (MID) which follows a series of strokes, or infarcts.

The stroke may be ‘silent’ and pass almost unnoticed and these small almost imperceptible episodes are often referred to as ‘strokelets’, however, even in these instances, when enough brain tissue becomes destroyed the result will be dementia.

A stroke is what happens when the blood supply to part of the brain is cut off. Blood carries essential nutrients and oxygen to the brain. Without a blood supply, brain cells can be damaged or destroyed and won’t be able to do their job.

Because the brain controls everything the body does, damage to the brain will affect body functions. For example, if a stroke damages the part of the brain that controls how limbs move, limb movement will be affected. The brain also controls how we think, learn, feel and communicate.

A stroke is sudden and the effects on the body are immediate.

Stroke can cause brain tissue to die, and this is called cerebral infarction. An infarct is an area of dead tissue. It can be tiny or affect a larger part of the brain.

Blood flow to the brain can be cut off by:

  • A blockage (ischemic stroke)
  • A bleed (hemorrhagic stroke)

The most common type of stroke is a blockage. This is called an ischemic stroke, which happens when a clot blocks an artery that carries blood to the brain. It may be caused by:

  • A cerebral thrombosis, when a blood clot (thrombus) forms in a main artery to the brain
  • A cerebral embolism, when a blockage caused by a blood clot, air bubble or fat globule (embolism) forms in a blood vessel somewhere else in the body and is carried in the bloodstream to the brain
  • A blockage in the tiny blood vessels deep within the brain (lacunar stroke).

The second type of stroke is a bleed, when a blood vessel bursts, causing bleeding (hemorrhage) into the brain.

This is called a hemorrhagic stroke. It may be caused by:

  • An intracerebral hemorrhage, when a blood vessel bursts within the brain
  • A subarachnoid hemorrhage, when a blood vessel on the surface of the brain bleeds into the area between the brain and the skull (subarachnoid space)

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Multi Infarct dementia (MID) is a remitting dementia characterised by an abrupt onset and progressing in steps rather than a continuous decline as in Alzheimer’s disease – this step like progression of course follows subsequent small strokes which may vary in their frequency, degree and location.

It is very important to seek medical input if suspected strokelets are occurring as often treatment to prevent further damage can be offered. Dead tissue however cannot be reanimated.

The damage can be local to the area of the brain affected until the degeneration becomes more widespread. After an initial episode there is usually some small recovery until the next time.

As some parts of the brain may be spared the picture we see in VD is inconsistent levels of performance and some unique behaviour as the person struggles to make sense of a brain that works well in some aspects and not at all in others.

Eventually, if damage continues and becomes more global the person begins to take on the general characteristics of someone living with DAT as multiple areas of function and cognition will be affected.

The ‘good news’ however is the discovery and therapeutic use of the fact that our brains are plastic – that is they can often adapt and accommodate injury and insult by having other areas pick up some or all of the abilities formally performed by a damaged area. Often this compensation process needs professional directing, the process can be sudden or prolonged but there is always hope with dementia. With treatment and rehabilitation vascular dementia has a sunnier prognosis than dementia of the Alzheimers type, which will generally continue to progress irrespective of attempts at treatment.

The early warning signs of vascular dementia can be very similar to those of depression and it is important that these signs are brought to the attention of a GP, as the condition cannot be stopped once the brain impairment progresses.

Early symptoms of vascular cognitive impairment

People with vascular cognitive impairment can experience a wide range of symptoms, such as slowness of thought, difficulty with planning, memory loss, trouble with language, and mood or behavioural changes.

At this early stage, the loss of mental ability may be barely noticeable, or mistaken for something else such as depression.

Difficulty with performance across these areas indicates that some brain damage has already occurred and treatment needs to be started immediately.

Symptoms of vascular dementia

Once the brain damage has progressed to vascular dementia, symptoms can worsen quite quickly as brain tissue begins to die.

Symptoms of vascular dementia depend on which area of the brain has been damaged.

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The rate of progression varies during the course of the disease and from person to person. For example, the condition might be stable for several months or years, but strokes can then occur that lead to a sudden worsening of symptoms. Stress and psychological trauma as well as continued physical disease processes have been shown to precipitate sudden worsening of the condition.

Possible symptoms can include:

  • severe slowness of thought
  • feeling disorientated and confused
  • memory loss and difficulty concentrating
  • difficulty finding the right words
  • severe personality changes, such as becoming aggressive
  • depression, mood swings and apathy (unresponsiveness)
  • finding it difficult to walk and keep balance, frequently falling
  • having a frequent urge to urinate, without actually having a urological condition
  • hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that aren't there) and delusions (believing things that are not true)

It is possible to have a combination of vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease, and mixed dementia’s now account for the fourth largest percentage of diagnosis of dementia.

Till next time

Paul Smith – Dementia Care Expert

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Even the largest biopharmaceutical companies today shy away from maintaining massive global infrastructures to manage every single aspect of their operations. The move toward more agile, partner-driven models has enabled them to cut costs, gain efficiencies and reduce their risks by taking advantage of the existing skills and infrastructure of other industry experts.

Hub and spoke modelBut there are still avenues to follow that can further add agility and productivity to their processes. The key is identifying tactical operational work that is necessary but does not drive added value or tap into the team’s core skill set.

Many of these tasks fall into the realm of global regulatory affairs. Increased reporting demands from global regulatory bodies, coupled with internal pressures to maintain current staffing levels, is stretching some organizations to the breaking point.

One of the biggest obstacles in this space is that regulatory affairs work often requires localization, which can create a significant financial and human capital burden. Even though harmonization efforts are in place, the regulatory agencies in many target markets still retain a largely regional focus. For some high-level tasks, it is still necessary to have staff present in major markets to liaise with regulatory agencies, e.g., FDA in the US.

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At Quintiles, we refer to this as the ‘Hub and Spoke model.’

Rather than establishing permanent resources in every country, merely to have the necessary feet on the ground to occasionally interface with local regulatory bodies, biopharma companies tap into the existing network of their partners, who provide those resources on their behalf.

With the hub and spoke model, instead of having dedicated regulatory personnel in each country, regional hubs are used (e.g., Argentina for Latin America, Singapore for Asia-Pacific). Work on a ‘core dossier’ for each product is largely done in an off-shored site, where basic files are produced and published. It is then made available electronically, using secure portals such as SharePoint or a RIM system, for each hub to tailor for their countries.

These hubs are responsible for tailoring the regulatory dossier/file for regional acceptability in terms of language and content. Actual submission of the filing can be done directly from the regional hub or, where required, from within the country itself as a ‘post-box/mailbox’ service.

This partnership model for global regulatory affairs management potentially eliminates a company’s need for whole layers of in-country personnel who traditionally take core dossiers and tailor them for each country.

This is the next step toward a more agile and flexible biopharma business model. Managing operational regulatory affairs work for marketed products is a necessary process and has far-reaching legal, commercial and patient obligations. In addition to guaranteeing successful business continuity, a cohesive and nimble regulatory strategy can also help companies expand and leverage their global product coverage into new markets while reducing the vitally important time-to-market lag. All of this can be achieved without having to wait for the lead-time of establishing their own infrastructure — which can ultimately accelerate overall sales.


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  1. Really nice :p
  2. I'm not sure why people don't complain about this stuff. Imagine being their neighbor and hearing music blasting and seeing flashing lights everywhere. Regardless, the lights work extremely well with the music, so kudos for that.
  3. The guy that originally did this in Ohio ('Wizards of Winter' - the one in the Beer ads) eventually had to move his show to a local park. The noise isn't an issue - they usually use a low power FM transmitter like the remaining Drive-In theatres use so you pick it up on your car radio - the problem is the traffic that a show like this generates.
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We've had such a HUGE response to our kids' lexicon, we've added some more entries. If you haven't read the others, here's Part One...and here's Part Doo. Tune in tomorrow for a Special Saturday Post...

Bissucs: (noun) Small, round rolls served in the south, with or without gravy

Froggy: (adjective) Describes the weather outside when the fog hasn’t lifted. “It sure is froggy out"

Earache: (foreign country) Soldiers go there and can't come home for Christmas. See also: Again-istan.

Grumpy: (adjective) Describes the condition of a gravel road. "The road is grumpy"

Harry Potter and the Deadly Hoes: (literature) Book seven in the series by JK Rowling, when Harry gets a little naughty.

Hass: (noun) A place where pain resides or a degree of pain. When commenting to your six year old that his 2 year old sister is "being a pain." He needs to clarify if she is a "Pain in the Hass."

Hooray: (noun) On the 4th of July we watch the Hooray with all of the floats and loud fire engines. People throw candy for the kids to gather.

Nimbles: (noun) what you see if your little sister refuses to put on a shirt

Shakundah (exclamation) excited utterance for whenever you injure yourself in some way.

Socktagons: (noun) footwear that is identified by intersecting diamond-shaped patterns See also: gargoyle socks

Tentacles: (noun) the part of one’s anatomy that makes you a boy

Thumb-Toe: (noun) The big toe on your foot, opposite your pinky toe i.e. I kicked the door and stubbed my thumb-toe

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  1. and by the way, my security phrase to leave my last comment 'FOCKETTE'

    I'm pretty sure that belongs in your lexicon, and i'm pretty sure it would be -- oh crap, i've had too many gimlets to determine whether it's a noun or not -- you choose!!

  2. thumb-toe!!! My middle one says that!!

  3. These posts laugh me. Thank you for making my Friday tolerable!
    I'm going to go eat some ass cream.

  4. LOVE the tentacles. My toddler, in a fit of manual self-exploration one day, looked up with delight having discovered that "dere M&M's in dere!"

  5. I've also heard the male anatomy referred to as a "tail." Perhaps that one could go in too. lol. I love these! I can hardly wait to see what my son comes up with, my daughter is really articulate. My son, not so much.

  6. be careful with the ass cream, my 7 year old says it causes freeze brain and give you a headack

  7. Yep, my daughter thinks her baby brother has a tail =D

  8. I have a TERRIBLE potty mouth and I have a really hard time contolling it. My three year old (god love him) somehow caught on that these words are not ok to say and only uses them when telling me 'mommy, you can't say f---'. However, it seems that he understands my use of these expletives, because he has come up with his own.

    Chittymints - (expletive) used in situations where things are just not going your way. Ex.

    Mommy: B, it's time to put down the puzzle and get ready to go to bed.
    B: awwwww, chittymints.

    While searching for the lost 'k' to the letter puzzle. Chittymints.

  9. A friend of mine has a toddler son who loves Capri Sun. Smarty that he is, he realizes that a Capri Sun is not exactly a juice "box." It's a juice "bag." Only he can't say J or C properly so it's a doosh bag instead!!

  10. One daughter liked to eat Ice Kippies for breakfast. (rice crispies). Ha!

  11. Love the thumb-toe! My 4-year-old referred to his big toe the other day as his thumb-piggy.

  12. Just in: while watching a dinosaur movie two of mine (3 and 6) kept saying, "when are they going to get boned? When are they going to get boned? Mommy!!" "You know. When do they turn to bones and be extinct?" My daughter further clarified by saying, "boned is another way to say extinct." Obviously.

  13. One that my now 10YO used to say is "Commode 'n Troll", which is "remote control". Of course.

  14. When my son was about 3 he switched the syllables in "forget" producing questions like: "What did you get for, mama?" "And I got for my truck at home." It really took some brain-bending to put the syllables the right way round for comprehension.

    Oh, and he still loves bullz-doh-ers and listening to muscic.

  15. "Crap Store" The place where Mommy buys paint, ribbon and fabric. I think Daddy may encourage this one.

    "Navy Americans" People indigenous to the American continent. A side effect of Veteran's Day and Thanksgiving being covered by the Kindergarten teacher in the same month.

    "F***" What my neighbor's son calls a watch. Because it is what his Daddy says every time he looks at his.

  16. I hear thumb-toe all the time, too!

    One that I think you (and Hawk, especially) can appreciate....

    Free Pee-Pee, Yo: ArtooT2's friend. "Mama, why Free Pee-Pee Yo can talk but ArtooT2 only can beep?"

  17. Humping - (v) As in "Look mom, I humping!" while at an arts and crafts table with other small children, while using small air pumps to blow up balloons.

    We also have "T.D." (television), "chicken dots" (chicken pox)...I'm in the midst of The Blur so I'm sure there are more of these, which I'll remember when they say them. And then forget again.

  18. wah-wah (noun): the thing you put in the babies mouth to help them stop saying wah-wah-wah.

    chemanical pencil: the pencil that has lead that comes out when you push on the eraser. As pronounced by my 10 year old.

  19. You guys have done it again! I'm laughing so hard I can't breathe! When I was little supposedly I couldn't say my 'T's correctly and I added 'R's to everything so Fire Truck...became Friar F_ck! Imagine my father's surprise when I spouted that at a restaurant table when I heard sirens going by...He's never let me live that one down...

  20. I've got two for you...
    My daughter used to love to tell about those small lizards that can change color and camoflauge. That's a "chamelman". (ka-meal-man)
    Then there's my son, who is often told that he needs to behave. He frequently responds, "But Mommy, I'm am being haeve! (haeve with a long "a"). Apparently he thinks when I tell him to behave I'm trying to get him to actually be something called a haeve.

  21. in my house "nimbles" = nipplepies

  22. Lasterday - a day in the recent past, as in "but we haven't been to Chuckie Cheese since lasterday, isn't it time to go again?"

    Also, my three year old is devastated that it's not Halloween anymore. She told me that "Halloween is closed", and then she said that "trick or treating is broken".

  23. I've been stuck with a sick kid for the last few days so just saw all three of these posts--thank you for a much needed dose of humor!

    My faves from my (still sick) 2.75 yo:
    Favor (adj) - favorite
    Pank (adj) - the color pink, her favor color
    Classes (n) - sunglasses, her favor accessory. She frequently wears her favor pank classes.
    Nose hug (n) - might be described by some as an eskimo kiss
    Panky (n) - her piggy bank, which is ironically green and not pank
    Diamond Room (n) - dining room. But much more sparkly.
    Late outside - as in, "Mama, it late outside!" Now that daylight savings time is back, it gets late outside really early in the evening.

    My oldest (13 yo) still wears stubs in her ears when dangly earrings just don't work. And when she was little, we waved the amiracle flag on the 4th of July. :)

  24. My 3 yr old calls those bits of anatomy "nibbles" which of course absolutely delights his father every time he says it and all sorts of innapropriate comments are then slyly made. My older son announced one day when he was about 3 that he needed some cream because his "little twinkles" were sore.

  25. When my daughter was about 3 she came up with the 3 degrees of poop.

    1) Sharp or Pokey
    2) Slobbery
    3) Poop soup

    We would get notification on the type of poop we were going to be dealing with. She would yell from the bathroom "Moo-oom, I need wiped, it's poop soup!"

  26. I LOVE all of are a few of my favorites from my 23 month old son:

    "Opff"- When the light is no longer in the on position

    "Emmo"- the little red monster from Sesame Street

    "Hewwoooo"- that is what he calls his elephant Horton that says "Hello" he will search around the room yelling "Hewwooo" until he finds him.

    "Hi leetle leetle" while waving- a greeting to anyone he doesn't know. We think he is saying little little.

    "Bah"- Anything round that can be thrown like a ball.

  27. When her little friend hurt herself and cried, my daughter, age 2, put her arms around her friend and asked, "Feel better?" Only it came out, "Free Beer?" Hmmm, that might work!

  28. Love these!! I finally remembered a few of the better ones from my family

    Manguins (combination of Mango and Penguins) those little bits of dried, candied Mango you can buy at Costco

    Schoneys alternate name for Scones, my family loves Schoneys.

  29. fourmonsters~momma monsterNovember 13, 2010 at 4:20 PM

    My son had a number of his own words for things, but my favorites were..
    Canootees for coyotes...."sshhh~ wissin, I hear canootees" he would say it like ka-NEW-tees, (I know, canootees sounds a bit like slang for breasts...Thankfully we never saw any coyotes while out shopping and around large crowds of women!)
    Peecones for pinecones..."oh momma wook at aww the peecones the pinetrees wost!"

  30. Lasterday was a big one in our house as well....or tomorrrowday (as in the day after today)

    @Katrina: my daughter does this too....only hers is big fat snake poop, caterpillar poop, and "just yuck"

    My son called pinecones "ping pongs" forever

    Sweet Pea still calls penguins "pink ones"

  31. Got a new one for you today at the Museum of Natural History.

    Extinct : What happens when you poop.

    Here was the conversation:
    "Mommy, where are the dinosaurs?"
    "They're extinct."
    "They pooped? That's disgusting!"

  32. One of my favs - my four year old insisted on placing her own food order in a restaurant - and she proudly ordered "vagina" (Of course she meant lasagna, but I was the only one who knew what she meant.)

  33. I think "doosh bags" is the winner. LOL.

  34. My nephew is almost 3 and he says "betend" instead of "pretend" and the present tense is hilarious, as in: "Aunt B, I am bein'-tend to be Emmo. You be-tend to be Oscar."

    Also, pigs were always pig-pigs. So piggy-back rides became pig-pig rides.

    I love these!

  35. it bad that I never before realized "thumb-toes" and "pinkie-toes" are not the official names? And that, at 28, I have no idea what the toes are really called?

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That's prety wack Pzabb, I thought the Chuck was being hard on you but on further review....

So your mom is able...she has your dad two days a weak, and gets to sleep beside him every night. Plus vacations. But you can't live your life because you won't let her be alone....5pm-9pm on weekdays?

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OKC new alternate jersey

SLAM ONLINE | Thunder Reveal New Alternate Uniforms

According to the team’s official Twitter account, the Thunder will be rocking these alternate jerseys on Friday night against the Pistons. At least the new threads with the vertical lettering are, well… minimalist.
totally feeling it, thought they would go orange but i like this idea better.

Dark Knight 11-08-2012 04:06 PM

It's a lot different than their normal jerseys...which is a good thing...

thought 11-08-2012 04:09 PM

maybe it's the OCD in me but I don't like how the stripes don't line up

aside from that, i think it looks awesome.

jeffb 11-08-2012 04:22 PM

Wow that's ugly

Dark Knight 11-08-2012 04:23 PM

Originally Posted by jeffb (Post 700217)
Wow that's ugly

It's classy.

'trane 11-08-2012 04:24 PM

vertical stripes don't work for kd. he shouldn't wear anything that enhances skinniness....

ZanTheMan 11-08-2012 04:25 PM

I really really hate this one. It has no relation to their logo, colors, or primary uniforms... Zero recognizability. It doesn't look modern, neither is it a throwback I guess. It looks like it belongs to the Kings or something.

I don't understand this.

For example, Dirk Nowitzki has played for how long now? 15 years? The dude played in more than 10 different jerseys, all with the Mavs. Seriously, go look it up. I'm not a fan of this trend. Just find a winning formula and stick to it, like the Lakers or Celtics. But this, this looks like simple moneygrabbing...

Someguy again 11-08-2012 04:26 PM

Originally Posted by jeffb (Post 700217)
Wow that's ugly

Originally Posted by Dark Knight (Post 700219)
It's classy.

actually it looks like a jersey to me

JDMtors 11-08-2012 07:27 PM

Not a huge fan of their alternate, looks kinda ugly and a knockoff of vintage jerseys imo. They really need to change up their home court design

Windex 11-08-2012 07:51 PM

looks like a simplistic Jay Z design

There are people online that design better uniforms than some teams put out. don't know why teams continue to put out these bad designs.

Carlos Danger 11-08-2012 08:50 PM

Not bad.

ZanTheMan 11-09-2012 11:52 AM

Looks like the OKC community isn't all that fond of the new uniforms either...
I love the explanation from team representatives:

The vertical 'O-K-C' on the shorts embraces the organic and loyal support of our fans who chant those letters throughout home games.
What a bunch o' bull...

Article here

INSIDER 11-09-2012 12:18 PM

they shouldve taken the old Seattle Supersonics jerseys, and instead of the Green/yellow/white, use the OKC colours.... and instead of 'sonics' put 'thunder'.
now that wouldve been badass, and throwback at the same time.

LET'S GO RAPTORS!!!!! 11-09-2012 02:18 PM

those look ok

Luckedout 11-09-2012 02:23 PM

i like them. but they lack colour and are really dark which isnt very OKC thunder of them. maybe if it was a Mavs jersey.. or if it somehow had a silver thunderbolt on them like on the back even. id appreciate them more. idk, im just a girl that focuses a little too much on jersey designs lol.

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Do you ever drop stitches and as you see them unravel down your beautiful swatch of stockinette you inwardly (or audibly) yell, “NOOOoooo….!” Then this is the pattern for you! Through this scarf pattern, you may actually learn to enjoy dropping stitches (deliberately that is). Plus you will create a wonderfully wearable, light-weight scarf to boot.

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Meet Ethan! Dolls aren’t just for girls… check out this fabulous boy! He’s a cutie who’s super-cuddly (18 inches tall!)… and he’ll make the perfect friend for your own cutie!

FreshStitches dolls have been in the works for a while… the perfect doll needed to be adorable, but still easy to crochet. Well, you’re looking at him!

Ethan’s clothes are crocheted on. This means there’s a minimum of sewing and there are no pieces to get lost in play! He’s suitable for your littlest one, but feel free to use craft eyes (instead of the felt eyes, shown) for children over 3.

Ethan is wearing pants and a t-shirt… and adorable sneakers!

To complete your own doll, you’ll need:

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Rick Schwartz’s Hall of Shame publicly shames those companies that have been found guilty of RDNH.

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Genre: mystery, suspense, thriller
Length: 352 pages
Publisher: Random House
Date Released: April 1, 2014
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One game. Six students. Five survivors.

It was only ever meant to be a game.

A game of consequences, of silly forfeits, childish dares. A game to be played by six best friends in their first year at Oxford University. But then the game changed: the stakes grew higher and the dares more personal, more humiliating, finally evolving into a vicious struggle with unpredictable and tragic results.

Now, fourteen years later, the remaining players must meet again for the final round.

My Review:

I’m tempted to start out by saying, “Shall we play a game?” where the time-honored response is from the movie War Games. Black Chalk is not about global thermonuclear war, but the results to the six players of “The Game” are every bit as shattering as war.

Perhaps a better analogy would be Truth or Consequences, except that in this particular game, the proper title would be Truth AND Consequences, because each consequence reveals yet more truth about the one suffering it.

Six students meet in their first year at Oxford; 5 Brits, 1 American on a one-year study-abroad fellowship. They spend their first term as the absolute best of friends, and the rest of the year as increasingly bitter and brutal rivals.

What happens?

The simple answer is a game. In pursuit of a £10,000 prize, they invent a game that temporarily becomes their whole universe. While it appears on the surface to be a game of luck, in fact, it’s a game of mental manipulation. One they play against each other, and one that the prize committee is playing against them. Or perhaps it goes further up. That’s one of the mysteries.

What isn’t a mystery is what happens to the players. While they start out as friends, they are also fiercely competitive. They would have to be to get into Oxford University. Once the game starts, they all play to win. Some of them play to win at any cost.

Although the storyline is about the lives of the players as their friendship disintegrates and they self-destruct, the perspective is that of an unreliable narrator remembering his own misbegotten past. A past he sees through a glass not just very darkly, but with cracks.

We view the game through the lost memories of one of the players, a man who is now completely broken and trying to pull himself together for the final round of the game.

When the winner takes it all, what is it that he takes from the losers? And what has he lost in his own pursuit?

Escape Rating B+: As I read Black Chalk, it reminded me of The Magic Circle by Jenny Davidson. It has some similar themes about the potentially all-encompassing nature of games, and the manipulative lengths that people will go to win them at all costs.

The reader of Black Chalk starts out the story not knowing which of the six players is narrating. And as the story progresses, even the narrator is not sure that he is totally responsible for the course of the story as he writes it. He is sure that others are adding material that he doesn’t remember writing, even if he does remember the experience.

As cracked as Jolyon’s perspective is, we’re not sure whether someone really is messing with him, or whether he is so broken that he doesn’t remember all the things he does. Probably both.

In reading Jolyon’s account, it’s difficult to decide whether the players are exactly likeable or not. When they were at Oxford, they were all young, seemingly invincible and felt somewhat entitled; not by money (at all) but by their intelligence. The shattered Jolyon of 14 years later is much less manipulative and much more sympathetic.

The ending is sly and subtle and hits like accidentally biting on a jalapeno pepper. It takes a minute for you to realize that your mouth, or brain, is on fire..

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  1. There are many important facets to life and most think that winning is vital, but being a mensch is a wonderful asset.

  2. No, I don’t think so! Sometimes the process to get there gives you so much experience it’s like winning 🙂
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Review: Officer Elvis by Gary Gusick + Giveaway

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Genre: mystery
Series: Darla Cavannah #2
Length: 202 pages
Publisher: Random House Alibi
Date Released: April 21, 2015
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After performing at a local old-folks home, off-duty police officer and part-time Elvis impersonator Tommy Reylander smoothes out his pompadour, climbs into his pink Caddy, and gets all shook up—fatally so, when a bomb explodes. Whether he was killed for his police work or bad singing is a mystery that detective Darla Cavannah is determined to solve.

Though it’s been several years since Darla (reluctantly) partnered up with Tommy, she convinces her boss to let her lead the murder investigation. As the new regional director of the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, Shelby Mitchell can think of better uses for his star detective’s time, but not even the most hardened good ole boy can resist Darla’s smart, savvy persuasions. She soon embarks on a roller coaster ride through the world of Elvis tribute artists while tracking down one of the most bizarre serial killers in the history of the Magnolia State. Aiding her pursuit of the killer is recently reprimanded officer Rita Gibbons, fresh from the trailer park and described by Shelby as “half a licorice stick short in the manners department.” But Rita’s plenty smart, even when this case takes their suspicious minds in an entirely unexpected direction.

My Review:

This seems to be a week where everything I read turned out to be in the middle of a series – and I hadn’t figured that out beforehand.

last clinic by gary gusickSo like several of my early reviews this week, even though Officer Elvis is the second book of Darla Cavannah, I can attest that it is not only possible to read this without having read the first (The Last Clinic), it is a whole lot of fun to read this one, with or without having read the first one.

Officer Elvis is an absolute hoot from beginning to end. Not that there isn’t a very serious series of murders to investigate, but the surrounding events are just way too much fun.

There are at least 85,000 Elvis impersonators (really) in the world, and someone seems determined to cut that number down. In other words, there’s a serial killer targeting Elvis impersonators, and Lieutenant Darla Cavannah of the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation has caught the case.

She doesn’t start out thinking this is a serial killer cases. She starts out investigating the death of one of her former police partners. Tommy Reylander may have been one of the worst Elvis impersonators ever in the history of Elvis impersonators, but he was also a cop. Not terrible good at that, either, but still a cop.

In Jackson Mississippi, just like everywhere else, cops take the death of other cops very seriously, no matter how strange or unusual the circumstances of that death might be. Tommy died when his pink Cadillac Elvismobile exploded.

Tommy even dressed his girlfriend like Priscilla Presley, and the lookalike “Cill” is one of the first suspects – except that Tommy had almost no assets. He wasn’t even a good enough cop to have pissed off very many criminals, although there are a few.

But when Darla discovers a string of Elvis impersonator murders, everyone in the office is forced to conclude that someone wants Elvis to permanently leave all the buildings.

Some of the murders are inherently tragic, especially the one that misses its intended victim. Almost all of the circumstances contain an element of Elvis trivia and a whole lot of gallows humor.

The string of crimes is pointing directly to the upcoming Ultimate Elvis competition in nearby Tupelo Mississippi, Elvis’ birthplace. As all the contestants (and potential victims) gather for the high point of their year, one man is determined to take back what he believes is rightfully his. He just has to get Elvis back to Graceland to carry out his plan.

It’s up to Darla and her new partner, disgraced detective and Elvis fan Rita Gibbons, to let just enough, and not too much, of this last tribute play itself out.

Be prepared to be all shook up by the ending.

Escape Rating B+: This was way too much fun. I laughed through all of the early set up of the story, and just couldn’t stop. There are too many joke possibilities in the idea that this many people are seriously, or not so seriously, pretending to be Elvis. Particularly all the variations. The yodeling Elvis was probably my favorite, although I’m very happy not to have to listen to him.

But underneath the humor there is a very serious investigation of a serial killer – and one who is both organized in the way that he is committing the crimes, and psychotic in his motivations.

At the same time we have a dive into this rather strange offshoot of the entertainment industry – the world of the Elvis Tribute Artists. Some people take it seriously, some people don’t, but it looks like the Dixie Mob has its dirty fingers in this particular pie – just as it does in other parts of the entertainment industry.

What Darla can’t figure out is why the Dixie Mob and two of her own local criminal kingpins cared two hoots about Tommy Reylander. He may have been a cop, but he was seriously bad at it. She can’t help worrying at the puzzle of why the local meth kingpin, the local sleazy club owner, and the head of the Elvis Tribute Artists association and his hired goons had any interest in Tommy in the first place. If he was killed as part of the string of Elvii murders, why do these villains care?

And if he wasn’t, what did these crime lords have in common with Tommy, who wasn’t even smart enough, or venal enough, to be on the take?

Darla is determined to find all the answers, and as a viewpoint character she is fascinating to follow. She’s a terrific cop, but it’s more than that. As a Yankee in the Deep South, she has an outsider’s perspective on all the players, but as someone who has lived in Mississippi for ten years, even though she is still not accepted in a lot of ways, she has figured out how things (and people) work. That she is not involved with any of the various families and factions makes her a good person to see through all the connections and assumptions.

She’s smart, and she’s tough when she needs to be, but she has developed her own set of friends and colleagues who help her navigate a place where she will always be on the periphery. And it works for her and the reader.

Darla’s first adventure is The Last Clinic, where she investigates and falls for her husband. I can’t wait to see how she got started.

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  1. It’s been quite a while since I read a book that made me laugh but that wasn’t all about the comedy. This one sounds like a ton of fun, with a serious story underlying it all.

    Thanks for being a part of the tour!

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