Saturday, August 24, 2019

Street Drugs in a Vaping Mod IS NOT VAPING!


I wanted to share an email that I received from the wonderful people at CASAA.  Please note, I DID NOT write this article, I am simply sharing for those that might not be connected to the vaping world!


As expected, reports of people being hospitalized due to a “mystery lung disease” continue to grow. The non-communicable lung disease that is increasingly being linked to products such as K2/Spice and/or adulterated THC cartridges--sold by underground sellers--is now under investigation in 22 states including CA, CT, FL, IL, IN, IA, MN, MI, NC, NJ, NM, NY, PA, TX, UT, WI, and as of Thursday, Colorado has its first confirmed case.

As of Friday morning, one death in Illinois is being attributed to an unknown substance that people are consuming by way of vaping. CASAA extends our condolences to the family and share in everyone’s disappointment in knowing that this tragic death could have been prevented if more compassionate policies were in place.

In last week’s Heads Up Round Up we briefly highlighted the concern that state and federal drug policy is complicating diagnosis, patient care, and accurate reporting about these clusters of lung disease. But in the wake of these reported illnesses, almost all of the usual anti-tobacco campaigners are using this event to elevate their cries for an all-out ban on nicotine vaping products--especially e-liquids sold in flavors other than tobacco. 

Anti-tobacco campaigners are advocating for policies that will do absolutely nothing to prevent events like this in the future. Rather, it is more likely that heavy regulation--even if it isn’t total prohibition--will lead to more instances of people being harmed by fake pot, adulterated THC, or poorly manufactured nicotine products sold on an unregulated, illicit market. According to an article on TechCrunch, the FDA is still uncertain if the products being used even fall under the agency’s regulatory authority.

CASAA is reaffirming our advice to consumers that vapor products (THC and nicotine) should be purchased from reputable sources and not “on the street.” We also note that the terminology used to discuss this issue can benefit from including a clear distinction between nicotine vaping, THC/cannabis vaping, and synthetic cannabinoid vaping (k2/spice). Simply reporting that a mysterious lung disease is generally attributable to “vaping” will have harmful unintended consequences such as sending people back to combustible tobacco or discouraging them from making the switch at all.

Stay safer,

Alex Clark, CEO
CASAA
 

Thursday, August 15, 2019

Honey Gold, a Browser Add-On That Saves Money



I'm pretty leery when it comes to adding things to my browser, but Honey has been a great addition.  I do a lot of shopping online, and Honey looks for coupons that I can use before pushing the buy button.  Normally, I wouldn't talk about stuff like this, but since it has helped me, I figured I'd share the love.  

On top of getting coupons for stores online, you also get rewarded for some purchases.  When I bought my Alienware it gave me 3,000 reward points which I was able to use and get $30 in Amazon gift cards.  As my husband likes to say (sarcastically, I might add) saving money.  The way I see it if you're going to shop online anyway, why not get a little reward for doing it.  

Full disclosure, if you use the link above, and shop and use Honey I do get $10 Honey Gold, but even if you don't use my link, you can save a few bucks and get rewards.  I personally love shopping online (much to my husband's disappointment) so I'm going to keep using it.  

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Love's Hot - Karen Deen





Title: Love's Hot
Series: Time for Love #5
Author: Karen Deen
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: August 11, 2019



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KANE
She wants to be my buddy.
You know, the naked type—no strings attached, no awkwardness.
Friends who are lovers but with no relationship hassles.
To a man who has nothing to offer a woman except pleasure, it’s an offer too good to refuse

Days of laughter and nights full of hot searing passion.
It can’t last. I need it to end, my life depends on our demise.

But I miss her clothes on my bedroom floor.
As she looks up at me from her knees, my heart … the distraction … I just can’t.

She’s here in front of me, so how do I keep her safe?


LILLY
Holy hotness!
It’s a crime to be that good-looking, surely. It’s not just looks, I’m certain.
His skills in the bedroom keep me awake dreaming of more.
I don’t want to be attached, but I’m not ready to let him go. I come up with the perfect plan.

Friends with benefits, an arrangement with rules.
F… buddies—his name and his rules. A name he takes seriously and lives up to.

I’ve never known life to be this good but just as I fall under his spell, he’s gone.
The rules say I should too. But I won’t because his love is worth fighting for.

I’m about to make him see that too







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Karen Deen has been a lover of romance novels and happily-ever-after stories for as long as she can remember. Reaching a point in her life ready to explore her own dreams, Karen decided now was the time to finally write some of her own stories. For years, all of her characters have been forming story lines in her head, just waiting for the right time to bust free.

Sitting up in the early hours of the morning with her cups of tea, chocolate and music she gets lost in a world of sexy, alpha men who are challenged by some funny, sassy and strong-willed women. Bringing you unexpected laughs, suspense and a little bit of naughty.

Karen is married to her loving husband and high school sweetheart. Together, they live the crazy life of parents to three children. She is balancing her life between a career as an accountant by day and writer of romance novels by night. Living in a beautiful coastal town two hours south of Sydney, Australia, Karen loves to enjoy time with her family and friends in her beautiful surroundings. Of course, when she is not shut in her writing cave bringing you more words to devour.


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Cover Reveal for Unintended - Kyra Lennon





Title: Unintended
Author: Kyra Lennon
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Cover Design: Kirsty-Anne Still,
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Release Date: October 8, 2019



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He’s too young. She’s too damaged. But since when has love played by the rules?

Evie
From the outside, it looks like I’ve got my life together. A place to live and a successful business sure can hide a lot, namely the scars that remain from everything I’ve lost.

The truth? I’m a shattered heart bundled up in a walking shell of anxiety.

Until him.

Ash
Abuse comes in many forms, but who would believe me if I told them I was suffering at the hands of the woman I love? I know I need to get out, but I just don’t have the strength.

Until her.

When two broken souls collide, can they help heal each other, or will their jagged edges only serve to make their wounds deeper? When all they’ve ever known is pain, will they finally find peace in a love so unintended?







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Kyra Lennon grew up by the seaside which provides massive inspiration for her. Her first book was released in 2013, and she has gone on to release two successful series' and a handful of novellas, all falling into the category of Contemporary Romance.

Kyra is also a self-confessed book-a-holic, and has been since she first learned to read. When she's not reading, you'll usually find her hanging out in coffee shops with her trusty laptop and/or her friends, or enjoying nights out at comedy shows and live music venues.

Lennon is a proud supporter of several charities. She currently volunteers for her local cat shelter as a fundraiser and social media guru. Kyra has also had stories published in charity anthologies to raise money for Cats Protection, the British Heart Foundation, the Innocence Project, and Clusterbusters.


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Thursday, August 8, 2019

Demonic Hollywood Encouraging Violence Against Republicans - The Hunt


A quote from the movie pulled from https://pjmedia.com/trending/hollywood-film-depicts-trump-supporters-being-hunted-for-sport-by-liberals/?fbclid=IwAR2N1HFMT6TMPLtlyy88P14vZuSsCADmt87Te7y6ni9TdrxKYvg0I16cZmw which should make anyone sick to their stomach.

"Did anyone see what our ratf**ker-in-chief just did?" one character asks early in the screenplay for The Hunt, a Universal Pictures thriller set to open Sept. 27. Another responds: "At least The Hunt's coming up. Nothing better than going out to the Manor and slaughtering a dozen deplorables."

As our President is being called to task for inciting violence, I think it's evident from this, and many other instances of Democrat hypocrisy that they are the ones, in fact, inciting violence.  I personally think this is a film that should be banned. A boycott, and perhaps a protest at any theater this type of hatred film is aired in would also be a smart idea.

Hollywood, CNN, and MSNBC are the true creators of violence among our youth.  It's past time they were called out on it.  If this doesn't make you take a step back and open your eyes, I'm not sure what will.


Kaylee Ryan - Unexpected Fight





Title: Unexpected Fight
Series: Unexpected Arrivals #2
Author: Kaylee Ryan
Genre: New Adult Romance
Release Date: August 2, 2019



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No matter how much you plan or try to prepare for what’s to come, life always sends you on an alternate path.

We’re taking each curve in the road as it bends.

Except what do you do when you don’t see the curve coming?

We’re struggling, learning to navigate in total darkness.

One breath.
One second.
One minute.
One hour.
One day at a time, we’re learning to live with our unexpected fight.







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Kaylee Ryan is a New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author.  When she’s not spinning tales of happily ever after, she’s reading or spending time with family.  Born and raised an Ohio girl, Kaylee resides in Cincinnati with her husband and their son.


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Monday, August 5, 2019

Perky - Julia Kent





Title: Perky
Author: Julia Kent
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Release Date: July 30, 2019



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AN ALL-NEW STANDALONE FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR JULIA KENT

One hundred years ago when I was young and impulsive (okay, it was five, alright? Five years ago...) I let my boyfriend take, let's just say... compromising pictures of me.

(Shut up. It made sense at the time).

Surprise! The sleazy back-stabbing jerk posted them on a website and, well, you can guess what happened. That's right.

I'm a meme. A really gross one.

You've seen the pictures. And if you haven't - don't ask. And don't look!

As face recognition software online improves, I get tagged on social media whenever anyone shares my pictures. You try getting a thousand notifications a day, all of them pictures of your tatas.

So. I'm done.

It's time for revenge. Let him see how it feels! But how do you get embarrassingly intimate pictures of your jerkface ex who double-crossed you five years ago?

Especially when he's a member of the U.S.House of Representatives now?

Getting sweet between the sheets with a congressman is pretty much every political roadie's dream, right? I'm one in a crowd.

Except to this day, he swears he didn't do it. Pursued me for months after I dumped him five years ago. Begged me to take him back.

And I almost did it. Almost. I was weak and stupid and in love a hundred years ago.

Okay. Fine. Five.

But I still have the upper hand. Second chance romance has all the emotional feels, doesn't it?

I can't wait to punch him in the feels.

All I need to do is sleep with him once, take some hot-and-sweaty pics of him in... delicate positions, and bring him down. That's it. Nothing more.

Pictures first. Revenge after. And then I win.

At least, that's how it was supposed to happen. But then I did something worse than sexting.

I fell in love with him. Again.








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Parker’s grasp as we kiss is masterful, his hips pivoting until we’re in a tiny closet, the door shutting behind us, our bodies surrounded by coats. At any second, someone could walk in, find us, interrupt and embarrass us, but I don’t care as my fingers grasp his thick, hard chest. He doesn’t care as his hand slides between my thighs, my need to be touched so great that I moan into his mouth, biting his lip. He makes a sound that says he needs this, too, his erection pressing into my hip, the centering of his thickness as he nudges my legs wider with his knee making me hold my breath as he rubs up, just once, just right, just there.
“I’ve missed you,” he hisses as his mouth takes my earlobe, sucking gently, then hard, the tip of his tongue flicking and laving, my clit spasming as it imagines him doing this between my legs. My fingertips dig into his shoulders, one hand diving down the length of his abs until I cup his sac, then ride the ridge of my palm up his long, thick, engorged–
“What are we doing, Parker?” I gasp.
“Whatever we want,” he says, so steady, so sure, so unabashedly here.
“SKIP?” someone calls out from behind the door.
“PERKY?” Mallory whisper-yells, her voice breaking through as I clench, my whole body going tight, the core of me shivering with an orgasm that crashes over me as Parker’s leg, his mouth, his very presence, make me lose my everloving mind.
And all my self-control.
Every shred of it.






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New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Julia Kent writes romantic comedy with an edge. From billionaires to BBWs to new adult rock stars, Julia finds a sensual, goofy joy in every contemporary romance she writes. Unlike Shannon from Shopping for a Billionaire, she did not meet her husband after dropping her phone in a men's room toilet (and he isn't a billionaire). She lives in New England with her husband and three sons in a household where the toilet seat is never, ever, down.


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Master of Revenge - Sienna Snow




Title: Master of Revenge
Series: Gods of Vegas #3
Author: Sienna Snow
Genre: Dark Romance/Contemporary
Release Date: July 31, 2019



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We are rivals. Sworn enemies. And he is the only man to ignite a fire in my soul.

I walk a fine line between control and chaos, defined by my past and driven by my future. Nothing can stop me from protecting those I love.

Zack Lykaios is cunning and dangerous. He wants to destroy everything I've built on his ruthless march to the top.

All that I am, or ever will be, says I should avoid him.

Still, I've been tempted. One card game. One night of all-consuming passion. One craving I can't deny. One need I can never quench.

Wanting him can only lead to disaster. Loving him is guaranteed to destroy my world.







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Inspired by her years working in corporate America, Sienna loves to serve up stories woven around confident and successful women who know what they want and how to get it, both in - and out - of the bedroom.

Her heroines are fresh, well-educated, and often find love and romance through atypical circumstances.  Sienna treats her readers to enticing slices of hot romance infused with empowerment and indulgent satisfaction.

Sienna loves the life of travel and adventure.  She plans to visit even the farthest corners of the world and delight in experiencing the variety of cultures along the way. When she isn't writing or traveling, Sienna is working on her "happily ever after" with her husband and children.


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