lundi 26 août 2013

 
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poster de tous les chiens que j'ai eu  : Blackey,(Barbet, mais j'ai des doutes) Peewee, FoxTerrier poil lisse;  Rough, Welsh terrier;  Red, Irish Setter; Zoe, Epagneul;  Calypso, berger allemand; Athena, Colley;  Fion, Labrador; Casey, Caniche; Sierra, LhassaApso; Cléo, Caniche; Snoopy,  Border Colley.Posted by Picasa

mardi 20 août 2013

    
 
 

 

The perfect title for the perfect beach read from the New York Times bestselling Author

Jane Green is one of the preeminent authors of women�s fiction today, and with each new novel, her audience grows. Green�s avid and loyal fans follow her because she writes about the true-to-life dilemmas of women�and The Beach House will not disappoint.

Known in Nantucket as the crazy woman who lives in the rambling house atop the bluff, Nan doesn�t care what people think. At sixty-five-years old, her husband died twenty years ago, her beauty has faded, and her family has flown. If her neighbors are away, why shouldn�t she skinny dip in their swimming pools and help herself to their flowers? But when she discovers the money she thought would last forever is dwindling and she could lose her beloved house, Nan knows she has to make drastic changes.
So Nan takes out an ad: Rooms to rent for the summer in a beautiful old Nantucket home with water views and direct access to the beach. Slowly, people start moving into the house, filling it with noise, with laughter, and with tears. As the house comes alive again, Nan finds her family expanding. Her son comes home for the summer, and then an unexpected visitor turns all their lives upside-down.

dimanche 11 août 2013

Data mining is the industry of the 21st century. Commercial companies collect information about us from thousands of sources—credit cards, loyalty programs, hidden radio tags in products, medical histories, employment and banking records, government filings, and many more—then analyze and sell the data to anyone willing to pay the going rate. Some people approve, citing economic benefits; others worry about the erosion of privacy.
     But no one has been prepared for a new twist: A psychotic killer with access to the country’s biggest data miner—Strategic Systems Datacorp—is using detailed information to work his way into the lives of victims, rape, rob and kill them and then blame unsuspecting innocents for the crimes. The killer’s voluminous knowledge of the victims and his ability to plant damning evidence mean that even the most vocal protests of innocence go ignored by the police and juries.
     The perp has, in short, found a perfect means to literally get away with murder—until one of his fall guys turns out to be Lincoln Rhyme’s cousin, Arthur, who is facing certain conviction for first-degree murder. Though the two Rhymes haven’t had any contact for years, Lincoln agrees to look into the case. In the process he unravels a spider web of crime that the killer, known only as Unknown Subject 522, has woven.
     Rhyme, Amelia Sachs and the cast of the previous Rhyme books find themselves up against their most insidious villain, a man obsessed with collecting—from junk on the street to intimate details about our lives to the ultimate trophy: human lives themselves, which he sees as mere streams of data. This is a man proficient with razors and guns, but whose most dangerous weapon is information, which he wields with ruthless precision against those he targets on whim . . . and against those who try to stop him.
     “How,” Rhyme says, “can you defend yourself against the man who knows everything?”
     As the invisible 522 attacks his pursuers through identity theft and outright torture and murder, the stymied police have to turn to the likely source of the data the killer uses—the eerie and monolithic Strategic Systems Datacorp, headed by the legendary data mining pioneer, Andrew Sterling, whose “mission” is the creation of a global empire based not on politics or money but on information.
     “Knowledge is power,” Sterling continually reminds.
     And for Lincoln Rhyme, the case has an added dimension: Arthur’s reemergence draws him back to his childhood and teen years and forces the criminalist to grapple with a tragedy from his past he has avoided for decades.
     The Broken Window is classic Deaver fare: Taking place over three frantic days, the novel features dozens of twists and turns, fascinating, highly researched details—about identity theft, data mining and threats to privacy, as well as forensic science—and, of course, offers the typical multiple surprise endings the author is known for crafting.
   

samedi 10 août 2013

Chose bizarre mes Coco à lui aussi une hernie discale, vendredi matin il trainait ses pattes de derrière, comme notre vétérinaire est en vacance, Sophie est allé à Bedford, et même diagnostique que Cléo il y a un mois. Curieux n'est-ce pas, même diagnostique, deux vétérinaires différentes, deux caniches sans relations aucune.  (Google : hernie discale chez le chien).  Pas de photo Blogger n'est pas en cause. mon ordinateur déconne il aura sept ans à la fin du mois...
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jeudi 8 août 2013

(Martin m'a devancée) Nous sommes allées petit déjeuner au Star Café, Martin, les enfants et moi. Toujours excellent. Après nous sommes arrétés chez Barnes Magasin Générale pour choisir la peinture de la maison (j'en ai profité car Kevin travaillait dans sa paperasse au magasin, normalement il est sur les chantiers, et je voulais qu'il me guide ) finalement il m'a conseillé un litre de couleur ''gris ardoise'' pour faire des tests, ça fait déja vingt ans que ma maison a été peinturé et depuis tout ce temps que je n'aime pas la couleur, l'an dernier Chris a peinturé la nouvelle galerie couleur Pewter (Étain) avec de la teinture Behr, mais on l'a trouvre seulement chez Home Dépot à Granby...pas pratique et de toute façon j'aime encourager nos marchands et naturellement Kevin devra peinturer le haut de la maison l'an prochain, il a toujours plein de contrats, je suis un peu en retard pour cette année, et le bas de la maison Chris va commencer à la fin du mois.  (P.S J'ai toujours des problèmes avec mon blog, je dois me déplacer avec mes flèches, je n'ai plus de correcteur, l'alignement fonctionne plus ou moins toujours avec les flêches)

mercredi 7 août 2013

The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways - not in memoriam, but as announcements of his intention to kill. And to kill in particularly horrific and efficient ways: using the personal details about the victims that they've carelessly posted in blogs and on social networking websites." "The case lands on the desk of Kathryn Dance, the California Bureau of Investigation's foremost kinesics - body language-expert. She and Deputy Michael O'Neil follow the leads to Travis Brigham, a troubled teenager whose role in a fatal car accident has inspired vicious attacks against him on a popular blog, The Chilton Report." As the investigation progresses, Travis vanishes. Using techniques he learned as a brilliant participant in MMORPGs, Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games, he easily eludes his pursuers and continues to track his victims, some of whom Kathryn is able to save, some not. Among the obstacles Kathryn must hurdle are politicians from Sacramento, paranoid parents and the blogger himself, James Chilton, whose belief in the importance of blogging and the new media threatens to derail the case and potentially Dance's career. It is this threat that causes Dance to take desperate and risky measures.

samedi 3 août 2013

Jane Green's last novel, The Beach House, was an instant New York Times bestseller and captured her largest audience yet. From the sunny green lawns of Connecticut to the cafés of London to the sandy beaches of Nantucket, Green draws from her own life to craft each delicious story and the resulting tales resonate with women everywhere.

Dune Road is another fun and fearless adventure that will take Green's many fans from laughter to tears and back again. The novel is set in the beach community of a tony Connecticut town. Our heroine is a single mom who works for a famous-and famously reclusive-novelist. When she stumbles on a secret that the great man has kept hidden for years, she knows that there are plenty of women in town who would love to get their hands on it-including some who fancy the writer for themselves. Dune Road is the story of life in an exclusive beach town after the tourists have left for the summer and the eccentric (and moneyed) community sticks around. Dune Road will surely be the book to pack in beach bags next summer.

jeudi 1 août 2013

 
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EXPO 67 / États-Unis-d'Amérique

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/expo/0533020215_f.html
Situé à l'extrémité ouest de l'île Sainte-Hélène, à côté du pavillon de l'URSS dont il est séparé par le chenal Le Moyne, le pavillon des États-Unis d'Amérique, d'une apparence étonnamment belle, est sans contredit l'une des structures ayant le plus marqué Expo 67. Même s'il suscite d'abord la controverse, certaines personnes le jugeant trop audacieux, le dôme géodésique de l'architecte Richard Buckminster Fuller s'avère rapidement l'un des symboles les plus forts de l'Expo. La couleur des parois extérieures se transforme sous l'effet des rayons du soleil grâce à un revêtement en acrylique et, le soir venu, le dôme s'illumine.Les visiteurs sont ébahis lorsqu'ils entrent dans ce chef-d'œuvre d'architecture de 80 mètres de diamètre et d'une hauteur de 20 étages. Lorsqu'ils empruntent le minirail, l'expérience est d'autant plus saisissante.

À l'intérieur du pavillon, diverses expositions sont présentées. Le cinéma américain et plusieurs aspects du monde du spectacle y occupent une place importante. Les beaux-arts sont représentés notamment par des œuvres du mouvement pop art et op art (arts visuels). On y relate également l'arrivée et la vie des premiers colons européens en terre américaine. De plus, les visiteurs peuvent en apprendre davantage sur les réalisations et les projets des astronautes, tout comme sur leurs outils de travail. Ces expositions illustrent bien le thème du pavillon : l'Amérique créatrice.
Le dôme géodésique, offert à la ville de Montréal par le président Lyndon B. Johnson, abrite aujourd'hui la Biosphère, un centre d'observation environnementale.
 
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Faut pas être claustrophobe!

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