Tuesday, August 31, 2010

September's Coming Attractions!

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    by Anna Sugden


    Phew! Now that we're beginning to recover from Jeanne's awesome launch party ... Zach and the hockey hunks are offering restoratifs and massages ... well, Zach is busy with me, but you can help yourself to one of the others ... it's time to celebrate a new month in the Lair.


    A great way to kick off that celebration will be to rush out and buy Jeanne Adam's Deadly Little Secrets - available from September 7th - and Tawny Weber's Riding the Waves - available now!

    Or you can click on the cover links here, which will take you straight to Amazon!


    And, if that's not enough, here's a tempting taster of the fabulous guests who will be dropping by the Lair this month.


    We kick off the month on September 2 with RITA winner Molly O'Keefe (www.molly-okeefe.com), who will be talking about her favorite musician and giving us the scoop on her Superromance trilogy, The Notorious O'Neills, starting with The Temptation of Savannah O'Neill!


    On September 3rd, Aunty Cindy hosts paranormal romance author Kendra Leigh Castle,(www.kendraleighcastle.com) who will talk about her new release from Harlequin Nocturne, Renegade Angel. She'll also be happy to answer questions about her other shape-shifter books, and about the new furry beastie in her life.


    A Lair favourite returns on the 6th when Jo Davis (www.jodavis.net)talks with Suz about her newest erotic spy romance, I Spy A Naughty Game, the second in Jo's seriously sexy SHADO Agency series. And the pair will have a hint or two about the next firefighter book and something new coming from our friend Jo.

    On 7th September, Foanna hosts debut Australian author Christina Phillips (www.christinaphillips.com) who will talk about Forbidden, a smoking hot romance between a Roman aristocrat and a Druid priestess!


    Another Lair favourite Nicola Cornick www.nicolacornick.co.uk) joins us on the 16th September, to talk about Whisper of Scandal, the first book in her new series.


    MJ Fredrick, yet another Lair favourite, returns to the Lair on 19th September to celebrate the September 6 launch of her latest book, Sunrise Over Texas, from Carina Press, the story of a woman struggling to hold her family together, a man who lost everything and the struggles the two of them endure in the new land...and with a new love.


    Addison Fox (www.addisonfox.com)is back to bring us another of her sexy Zodiac Warriors in Warrior Avenged. This exciting new series is only book two of her Warriors of the Zodiac series with plenty more paranormal Zodiac Warriors to come. Check out what has Suz so hot....really....about this new book.


    Popular thriller writer Shane Gericke (www.shanegericke.com)joins us on September 24th. Keep an eye out for his new book, Torn Apart!


    Rounding off the month on 27th September with another Lair favourite, Miranda Neville (www.mirandneville.com) who will pop by to tell us about the second book in her Burgundy Club series, The Dangerous Viscount.


    And, don't forget Anna Campbell is running a fantabulous contest - she is giving away TWO Change of Season Reading Packs in her latest website contest. Each AWESOME pack will include signed copies of My Reckless Surrender by Anna Campbell, Sweetest Little Sin by Christine Wells, His Mistress for a Million by Trish Morey, The Greek's Convenient Mistress by Annie West, Dark Deceiver by Pamela Palmer, and either Does She Dare? or Risque Business by Tawny Weber. Just email Anna on anna@annacampbell.info and tell her one other book by each of these authors (the website links are on her contest page to make it easy) to go into the draw. For more information, please visit Anna's contest page. http://www.annacampbell.info/contest.html

    So, with September starting, schools back in business and autumn just around the corner, tell me what are you most looking forward to this month? Source URL: http://idontwanttobeanythingotherthanme.blogspot.com/2010/08/
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Working down a diamond mine

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And the late, great Robert Newton Calvert is back

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Jazz Age Lawn Party

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From the Library: Random Riel Jazz

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Our New Charity

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    The St. Louis Senior Dog Project is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in the state of Missouri. We are an all volunteer organization that rescues dogs of all ages but especially dogs 5 years of age and older. We actively promote the adoption of older dogs. We spay/neuter all dogs, bring them up to date with shots, worm, microchip and test for heartworms. We provide our dogs with all necessary veterinary care, including treatment for such things as heartworm disease, kennel cough, pneumonia, intestinal parasites, urinary tract infections, fleas and ticks. This is Ellen's blog which describes day to day activities.

    MaggieTKat's mom has gone to the adoption events. (Maggie wasn't too keen on looking at dogs. MOL However, there were cats and kittens at the event.) Dogs ranged in age from 5 months to senior, indicating that the STL Senior Dog Project does practice it's charter to rescue dogs of all ages. All the animals are happy and well cared for, and all the volunteers strongly believe in the project.

    Please follow @STLSeniorDog and ask any questions. This is a great charity!
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Cheap Twins vs. Detroit Tigers Tickets!

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    **Attention Minnesota Twins fans!!** If you haven't been to a game at Target Field yet, today is the perfect opportunity for you! The Twins will host the Detroit Tigers tonight at 7:10pm and Ticket King still has a huuuuuge selection of cheap Twins vs. Tigers tickets for you to choose from! Our upper level seats currently start at just $15 per ticket or lowers start at $35 each. We have some amazing deals right now with the majority of our seats BELOW face value! Also, remember that your tickets can easily be picked up before the game from our Minneapolis office located at 212 Chicago Avenue South. Don't wait too long, these tickets are flying out the door! GO TWINS!!!!Source URL: http://idontwanttobeanythingotherthanme.blogspot.com/2010/08/
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Fall trend #1: Army jacket

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What makes the Internet worthwhile II

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    A little while ago the The Wellcome Library announced the launch of a digitisation project, to provide free, online access to its collections, including archives and papers from Nobel prize-winning scientists Francis Crick, Fred Sanger and Peter Medawar.

    Content will include 1400 books on genetics and heredity published between 1850 and 1990, along with important archives including the papers of Francis Crick and his original drawings of the proposed structure of DNA.


    Okay we will have to wait a while for this. Users will be able to access the repository in September 2012 but it is good to see that such work being made public. For me Sanger is possibly the greatest living Briton.Source URL: http://idontwanttobeanythingotherthanme.blogspot.com/2010/08/
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Monday, August 30, 2010

LAUNCH PARTY!!!!!! Deadly Little Secrets is coming in September!

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    By Jeanne Adams

    So, maybe I'm jumping the gun a bit but....

    DEADLY LITTLE SECRETS is headed for a store near you SEPTEMBER 7th!!

    And now that I have your attention by putting in something from TWILIGHT (A September calendar page, so it DOES apply!), I'll tell you about DEADLY LITTLE SECRETS.....

    I love this book. It was fun to write and even more fun to surprise people (my editor included!) with the twists and turns. The book is about cold cases and art fraud, friendship and danger. How's that for vague? Ha!

    It was interesting to research the book, discover how people smuggle paintings and how often, something happens and fabulous art ends up in a yard sale bin, or a library, or hanging on the wall of a little old lady in Poughkeepsie, who has no idea the painting is "real."

    (That's one of my favorite paintings by John Singer Sargent over there on the left, by the way. No, quit looking at Robert Pattinson, the painting is over THERE....nevermind.)

    Based on some very cool stories about just that sort of thing - lost art - and some other bits here and there, I created a cold case of art fraud for Ana Burton, brilliant, in-the-doghouse CIA agent who screwed up enough to get stuck on cold case duty. Rumor has it her data was wrong, and some of her team got killed. she's not only stuck, she thinks she DID screw up, and if she did, she'll never be the same.

    Then there's her opposite number, Gates Bromley. I researched security for high-profile individuals. Who has a body guard and why would you want one? What do they do? How does it work?

    So Gates is in charge of security for billionaire art collector, Dav Gianikopolis. After reading about several high-net-worth security mavins, I created Gates. He's at points Dav's partner in business as well, so he's not your average beefy thug, although he's pretty darn delicious, I must say!

    At first, he and Ana clash, but within hours of meeting with her about the nine-years-cold-case of art fraud, Gates is shot at, and so is Ana.

    Someone wants that cold case to stay buried in the stacks, and they'll stoop to murder to insure it.

    (cue suspensful music....)

    And that's the story of DEADLY LITTLE SECRETS!

    Bwah-ha-ha-ha! Sort of. There's a lot more, and a lot of very, very twisty bits. The one overwhelming statement everyone's made is...."WHOA, I didn't see THAT coming!"

    Heh-heh-heh. That's just the way I like it.

    Just before the book comes out, the publishing house sends it out for reviews. (This will make you crazy if you let it and it nearly gave me a case of the hives on this one.)

    With great thankfulness, I received my third 4.5 star review and a TOP PICK from Romantic Times magazine.

    To say that it made my day is a gross understatement. I squealed, I bounced up and down in my office chair. I emailed EVERYONE, then I called everyone: my hubby, the Banditas, my family, people I barely know.
    Seriously, I was stoked.

    So, between the LAUNCH and a good review, THAT calls for a CELEBRATION! SVEN!!! Bring a round of drinks.

    Demetrius! Paolo! Hockey Hunks! Bring on the party hats and streamers! Implore the Goddess Sangria to bless our gathering 'cause

    We are havin' a LAUNCH PARTY!!!!!

    Let's get out the paint, the wall sized canvas and Paint the TOWN!!!! Grab a drink and a brush and a color and let's GO!!!

    (BTW, That's another Sargent over there on the left...)

    And if you want to be briefly serious, tell me:

    Who your favorite artist is...

    What's your favorite research topic...(besides men, and sex...)

    What your favorite color is....

    And if you've ever kept a secret so well that no one EVER knew.... Source URL: http://idontwanttobeanythingotherthanme.blogspot.com/2010/08/
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DOMINO: TONGUE-TIED TUXY ON TUESDAY

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Anybody Wanna Trade For In The Labyrinth?

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If only we had leaders like this...

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    It looks like KCNA runs an "On this day" item This is from 27 August 1975...

    "President Kim Il Sung gave field guidance to a cooperative farm in Anju City, South Phyongan Province.

    On a snow-covered field he talked with a soldier-turned sub-workteam head about corn farming for a while. He asked the sub-workteam head about the way of transplanting the maximum number of humus-pot-grown corn seedlings per phyong (3.954 sq. yds).

    With a poor knowledge of corn farming, he could not properly answer to the question.
    Finding him at a loss for an answer, the President leveled snow piled up between furrows. He then taught the sub-workteam head a new method of planting the prescribed number of bunches of seedlings perphyong, drawing it on the snow.

    Hmm I wonder if said sub-workteam head learned a lot more about agriculture at a gulag or the North Korean equivalent...Source URL: http://idontwanttobeanythingotherthanme.blogspot.com/2010/08/
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Carla Bruni "prostitute" slur by Iranian press

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    Carla Bruni, the wife of the French president, has been attacked by the Iranian press for was attacked after she signed a petition calling for the release of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani.

    An Iranian newspaper, Kayhan, which unsurprisingly is under control of the government, called Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy and also the actres Isabelle Adjani who is campaigning for Ashtina’s release, “prostitutes” in an editorial, while Iranian state television accused the former supermodel of “immorality”.

    Hmm and sentencing a person to death by stoning is moral? The Iranian regime certainly has its priorities screwed (statement of the blindingly obvious part 3,779)Source URL: http://idontwanttobeanythingotherthanme.blogspot.com/2010/08/
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A new source of antibiotics?

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    The Telegraph reports that frog skins are possibly an excellent source of new antibiotics. Apparently scientists have long known that the skin of frogs contains plenty of powerful antibiotic. They haven’t been exploited so far as the substances are also often poisonous to humans.

    However, a team at the United Arab Emirates University have worked out a way of modifying the chemicals to remove their harmful side-effects.

    The team has already identified 100 new antibiotics including one that could fight the hospital superbug methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria.

    Frog skin is an excellent potential source of such antibiotic agents," said Dr Michael Conlon, a biochemist at the university in Abu Dhabi. "They've been around 300 million years, so they've had plenty of time to learn how to defend themselves against disease-causing microbes in the environment.”

    Dr Conlon and colleagues have discovered a way to tweak their molecular structure, making them less toxic to human cells but more powerful germ killers. Similarly, the scientists also discovered other tweaks that enabled the frog skin secretions to shrug off attack by destructive enzymes in the blood.

    The result was antibiotics that last longer in the bloodstream and are more likely to be effective as infection fighters, Conlon noted.
    The antibiotic substances work in an unusual way that makes it very difficult for disease-causing microbes to develop resistance,

    The scientists are currently screening skin secretions from more than 6,000 species of frogs for antibiotic activity. So far, they have purified and determined the chemical structure of barely 200, One substance isolated from the skin secretions of the Foothill Yellow-legged Frog — a species once common in California and Oregon but now facing extinction — shows promise for killing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria. MRSA is a "superbug," infamous for causing deadly outbreaks of infection among hospitalised patients.

    The skin of the mink frog, likewise, contains secretions that show promise for fighting "Iraqibacter," caused by multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumanni.

    Well there you have it. Hopefully the secretions will give rise o powerful new drugs that will replace the antibiotics that have been rendered relatively useless because of bacterial resistance. The problem is that a lot of the frogs are either rare or facing extinction.

    Here’s a good argument for conservation (How many potential drugs have we lost because of our destruction of the environment) Still I wonder how easy it will be to synthesise the chemicals rather than use the original sources…Source URL: http://idontwanttobeanythingotherthanme.blogspot.com/2010/08/
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From the Library: Water Musics

    Today's theme is 'Water' and the selections are extraordinarily diverse, from traditional and modern songs of the sea, of ships, and of those who sail in them; to pieces written to evoke rivers and lakes; to items where the water is only imaginary, such as a series of compositions about a voyage to the Moon in a sailing ship, and Karl Jenkins's Imagined Oceans. The styles are equally eclectic, ranging from folk to light to classical and New Age music, and there's even a bit of contemporary popular material.

    We hope you will find the programme enjoyable and that it will keep you guessing, not only about what is coming up next, but on occasion what the connection with the central theme actually is: it's in there somewhere, even if it's not obvious from title and artist. Spot the tracks from Malcolm Ironton and others from Rick Stein – a Musical Odyssey for example, or Are We To Part Like This from Mary Jane Newman. What is their connection with water? (Answers below*.)


    From the Library is produced by thap gump in conjunction with the Alexandrian Free Library Consortium of Second Life. You can listen to the programme now at http://loudcity.com/stations/radio-riel/tune_in. Outside the United States you can tune in on  http://main.radioriel.org or click here to link straight to your player if your browser is set up to do so. Today's programme is presented by Elrik Merlin.

    For more information on the Alexandrian Free Library, current exhibits and the work of Consortium members in general, please visit the Alexandrian Free Library website, or one of their branches in-world.


    *Rick Stein runs a restaurant in Padstow, Cornwall, specialising in seafood, and this album is from music used in his BBC TV series on cooking with seafood around the British Isles. Are We To Part Like This is taken from Mary Jane Newman's album of music played on the maiden voyage of the SS Titanic.
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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Curmudgeon Rant

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    by Jo Robertson



    Normally, I’m a happy, cheerful person. I rarely wake up grumpy (unless I’m sick) and I’m generally given to optimistic greetings and lots of pleasant chatter.

    Sadly, I live with two men who stumble from bed with a hangover kind of cloud hovering around their heads.

    Grumpy, grumpy, grumpy. And neither one drinks!

    I’ve learned not to speak to them until it’s nearly noon. Neither drinks coffee so I don’t even have that luxury to magically transform them into something approaching normal.

    Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m a half-empty sort of gal. A realist, a skeptic, a cynic, a doubter of the highest order. But grumpy? No way, no how.





    What about you? Cheery or grumpy in the mornings? Do you face each day with a little skip of joy or do such persons, quite frankly, make you sick to your stomach?


    Do you need your pickmeup whatever before you're fit to talk to anyone? Or do you leap out of bed ready to meet the world?
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ICE Cold Bandit Booty!!

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A year ago today.

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What makes the internet utterly worthwhile I

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    Much as I love the Poor Mouth it does not add much to the world’s knowledge (one or two photos aside perhaps). What really makes it utterly worthwhile is the vast amount of information and art being made available online.

    Today’s Independent carried an item about one such collection, the Prokudin-Gorskii Collection which has been made available by the Library of Congress. The above photo is from the collection is of the last Emir of Bukhara

    Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky, was one of the earliest pioneers of colour photography. His collection of stills from Russia – taken between 1909 and 1915 – provide us with an astonishingly saturated window into a past that is usually only ever seen through a black and white prism.

    For decades, the photographs remained hidden after they were purchased from his grandchildren by the US in 1948 and then stored in the archives of Washington's Library of Congress. But now, a century after Prokudin-Gorsky toured the length and breadth of the Russian Empire, his 1,900 photographs have been brought back to life and digitised for all to see.

    and the incredible amount of detail Prokudin-Gorsky was able to capture," said Helena Zinkham, the acting chief of prints and photographs at the Library of Congress. "He wasn't the only one using this technique at the time but he was one of the few that did it very well."

    Prokudin-Gorsky, a Russian noble and chemist who trained in St Petersburg, captured colour by using a camera that recorded three different exposures in succession on the same glass-plate negative. Each exposure, which would usually take anything between three and six seconds, was made with a different coloured filter in front of the lens: red, green and blue.

    The triple negatives would then be laid on top of one another and placed in a projector that created a single, full-colour composite.
    It is thought that Russia's first published colour portrait, taken by Prokudin-Gorsky

    The photos are truly amazing and giving us a window into a world that is gone. It’s not the race haters, the pornographers or the lunatic conspiracy theorists that make the internet worth the effort, it is availability of collections like this.Source URL: http://idontwanttobeanythingotherthanme.blogspot.com/2010/08/
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