Robin Cook — New York Times bestselling author and master of the medical thriller — returns with another crackling tale of unchecked greed and medical malfeasance.

Pia Grazdani is an exceptional yet aloof medical student working closely with Columbia University Medical Center's premier scientist on cutting edge research that could revolutionize health care by creating replacement organs for critically ill patients. Through her work with the brilliant molecular geneticist Dr. Tobias Rothman, Pia knows she will be given the chance to fulfill her ambition to participate in medical discoveries that can help millions while bringing her a measure of personal peace that might once and for all push aside memories of her difficult and abusive childhood. But when tragedy strikes in the lab, Pia, with the help of infatuated classmate George Wilson, must investigate an unforeseen calamity in the hospital's supposedly secure biosafety lab.
Meanwhile, two ex-Wall Street whiz-kids think they have found another loadstone in the nation?s multitrillion-dollar life insurance industry. They race to find ways to control actuarial data and securitize the policies of the aged and infirm to make another killing. As Pia and George dig deeper into the events at the lab, one question remains unanswered: Is someone attempting to manipulate private insurance information to allow investors to benefit from the deaths of others?
Décidément celui-là ne me plait ps non plus.

 

alex attend l'autobus avec Justin  ...un peu de brouillard.

Expo Brome 2012

 

Inclus dans le stationnement = on garde les animaux...charmante petite Yorkshire nommée Chanelle

 

Cette année pas de roulotte mais des voitures : Alex, Sophe et Chris font le stationnement.

 

Sophie et Coco

 

en attendant les clients

 

Véranda : teinture semi-opaque Behr couleur Pewter (Etain) -
Maison : teinture opaque Behr couleur Pewter (Etain) à venir

 

 

 

 

Le dragon

 

 

 

 

 

La pleine lune qui s'est levée hier soir était la deuxième d'août 2012, ce qui lui valait le nom de lune bleue. Sur cette image, la Lune apparaît bien bleue par endroits. Prise quelques heures avant l'heure exacte de plénitude lunaire du côté de Nottingham, en Angleterre, cette photographie met en valeur les brillants éjectas de poussière rayonnant depuis le relativement récent cratère Tycho. Cette image aux couleurs légèrement accentuées révèle également de subtiles nuances de bleu, caractéristique authentique du terrain lunaire lorsqu'il contient une forte proportion d'oxyde de titane et de fer. La partie bleue sur la droite comprend les rivages de la Mer de la Tranquillité, site d'atterrissage de l'historique mission Apollo 11.
traduction réalisée par : Didier Jamet > lire le texte original
Auteurs et éditeurs : Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA)
Représentant technique de la Nasa : Jay Norris
Un service de : LHEA de NASA / GSFC & Michigan Tech. U.

James Lee Burke’s eagerly awaited new novel finds Detective Dave Robicheaux back in New Iberia, Louisiana, and embroiled in the most harrowing and dangerous case of his career. Seven young women in neighboring Jefferson Davis Parish have been brutally murdered. While the crimes have all the telltale signs of a serial killer, the death of Bernadette Latiolais, a high school honor student, doesn’t fit: she is not the kind of hapless and marginalized victim psychopaths usually prey upon. Robicheaux and his best friend, Clete Purcel, confront Herman Stanga, a notorious pimp and crack dealer whom both men despise. When Stanga turns up dead shortly after a fierce beating by Purcel, in front of numerous witnesses, the case takes a nasty turn, and Clete’s career and life are hanging by threads over the abyss.

Adding to Robicheaux’s troubles is the matter of his daughter, Alafair, on leave from Stanford Law to put the finishing touches on her novel. Her literary pursuit has led her into the arms of Kermit Abelard, celebrated novelist and scion of a once prominent Louisiana family whose fortunes are slowly sinking into the corruption of Louisiana’s subculture. Abelard’s association with bestselling ex-convict author Robert Weingart, a man who uses and discards people like Kleenex, causes Robicheaux to fear that Alafair might be destroyed by the man she loves. As his daughter seems to drift away from him, he wonders if he has become a victim of his own paranoia. But as usual, Robicheaux’s instincts are proven correct and he finds himself dealing with a level of evil that is greater than any enemy he has confronted in the past.

Set against the backdrop of an Edenic paradise threatened by pernicious forces, James Lee Burke’s The Glass Rainbow is already being hailed as perhaps the best novel in the Robicheaux series.

(Non je n'ai pas aimé du tout même après 125 pages de lues.)

Brome / moyenne du mois d'août 2012

Neige : N/S
Pluie : 75.6
Maximum : 24.0 / 32.5 le 4 août
Minimum : 15.4 / 4.5 le 26 août
Vents : 5km / 50km le 5 août
dominants SE

Météo / moyenne des mois d'août

 

Météo/août 2012

Bonne rentrée scolaire..........

aux  enseignantes, enseignants, aux étudiants, aux élèves et surtout à Mathieu (Maternelle), Zachary (première année), Sabrina (troisième année), Alex (Première année à la Polyvalente), Max .............

 

 

THE FIRST RULE: A Joe Pike Novel

Frank and Cindy Meyer had the American dream – until the day a professional robbery crew invaded their home and murdered everyone inside. The only thing out of the ordinary about Frank was that – before his family, business, and oh-so-normal life – a younger Frank Meyer worked as a professional mercenary . . . with a man named Joe Pike.

The robbery crew has done other home invasions, and all the targets have been criminals with large stashes of cash or drugs. The police believe the same is true of Frank, but Pike does not, and with the help of Elvis Cole, he sets out to clear his friend . . . and punish the people who murdered him.
They are about to learn the first rule.
Don’t make Pike mad.

Excellent

 

 

 

202. Certitude physique. --- Les certitude physique est la ferme adhésion de l'intelligence basée sur les lois physiques librement statuées par Dieu. Cette certitude admet des exceptions. Ce sont les miracles (Leçons de Logique)

201. Certitude métaphysique. -- La certitude métaphysique est la ferme adhésion de l'intelligence basée sur l'essence même de l'objet proposé à son assentiment. Exemple : 2 + 2 = 4. De cette vérité l'intelligence et certaine d'une certitude métaphysique. Cette certitude ne souffre jamais d'exceptions. (Leçons de Logique)